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7 months ago

Apex not launching on EA App or Steam

 Hey people. For the past week I've been trying to launch APEX through both the EA App and Steam, and every single time it fails. All it does is for the EA App, the app just reopens as if I exited the game, and with Steam nothing happens. The game doesn't open and there's no error message that pops up for either platform. I've tried uninstalling the game from both platforms and reinstalling them with no success. In addition, I've attempted a clean boot, marking the game as an exception from Windows Security, and I've tried running the game as an administrator. All of the methods I've been told to do from people I know and EA Support have been unsuccessful. If anyone else has had this issue and was able to resolve it, what did you do to make it work? This all started after the Astral Anomaly event launched. 

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  • There are a lot of settings on by default for steam that impact performance. The biggest one is Steam Overlay, which is a significant resource hog. I'm not sure about how it compares to the EA launcher specifically, but I know that when I booted up through Epic Games that my frames were significantly more consistent.

    I've also heard that Steam has less input lag (not sure if that's true), https://9apps.ooo/ so I've stuck with steam and just messed with the settings to improve performance.