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XHelperZ
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6 months ago

Heads up! DX11 Support will be dropped soon

Hello everybody, I'd like to inform you that DirectX 11 support will be dropped in the upcoming patch on March 25th. This means that players with older GPU's may no longer be able to run the game o...
DirectX Feature Level 12_0 is not supported by your graphics card, which is required for running Apex Legends in DirectX 12 mode. DirectX 11 can currently be enabled by adding -anticheat_settings=SettingsDX11.json to your launch arguments. Please be aware that Apex Legends will stop supporting DirectX 11 in the future, and a 12_0 compatible graphics card will be necessary to continue playing.
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snuggert
New Novice
5 months ago

I have a 4090 so Dx12 should not be an issue, BUT the game just crashes every time after a few matches on DX12 and it did NOT crash on DX11. Also the frame time pacing is worse on DX12, on DX11 it was a solid flat line and no stutters, on DX12 it's bumpy and sometimes a big frame time spike... Sad. Any ideas on why DX12 crashes though?

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EA_Mako
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5 months ago

Hey snuggert,

We're still investigating some DX12 crashes, particularly with certain CPUs. It may be worth checking through this information if you're seeing the crashes regularly.  

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    snuggert
    New Novice
    4 months ago

    Using old 561.09 Nvidia driver seems to have fixed the issue

    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/232539/

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    snuggert
    New Novice
    4 months ago

    The good news is that the crashing doesn't occur when using the old 561.09 Nvidia driver, BUT the bad news is I cannot install that driver on my RTX 5080 :( The crashes are happening again. EA/Respawn please fix

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