Apex freeze 100% CPU Usage
Apex freezes and will not close, have to open task manager and close the game from there on my second monitor as my main monitor goes black when I try to alt + tab. Win key + Shift + Right arrow key...
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Download Afterburner and cap fps to 120 this has stopped it for me.
Not tried capping at other fps.
Possible fix to try especially for 9700K users with 100% CPU Usage and freezing.
This is also happening to me on an RTX 2080 and an Intel i7-9700K on my ASUS ROG STRIX GL12CX. I'm running Windows 10 Home version 20H2 and after looking through reports in the forums I found tweaks/settings that has helped me reduce the frequency of the freezes. Doing the following also reduces CPU Usage during gameplay. The first thing I did was to disable something in Windows called Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling. You can find this in newer versions of Windows 10 by right clicking on the desktop and selecting "Display Settings". Scroll to the bottom and select "Graphics settings". Select the toggle to "Off" and it usually asks you to restart your computer. The next setting I turned off is the "Game Mode" which you can find by going into "Settings" > "Gaming" > "Game Mode" on the left hand side. The third setting I turned off is "Background recording". This can be found in "Settings" > "Gaming" > "Captures" on the left hand side > "Record in the background while I'm playing a game". The last tweak that I made for Apex is to set "Launch Options" with +fps_max 144. I play on a 240Hz monitor and doing this significantly reduces CPU usage and prolongs gameplay reducing the chance of freezing. I've tried having the setting on NVIDIA's control panel to set max FPS to 144 but that doesn't reduce CPU usage as much as having this command in Steam's launch options. I believe it works the same in Origin's launcher. The downside is that since it's capped to 144 it feels kinda awkward. I don't know if it's input lag or doing this introduces some sort of latency or visible tearing but doing all of this I was able to play for a long while and haven't frozen yet. I had to adjust to it feeling different. Without these tweaks, I would freeze once or twice per game during anything. Hope this helps some of us until the Apex team fixes this issue in its entirety.
I have a 9700K, 2070 super, and asus prime z390 motherboard. 32gigs of ram at 3200 mhz. ever since fight night my game freezes and cpu goes to 100% and i have to bring up task manager and end process. nothing else on computer freezes and no other games have any issues at all. its ONLY apex legends. I have tried everything, reinstalled windows, reinstalled the game, resett all components to stock, tried overclocking again. doesn't matter if it was overclocked or at stock, it still crashed every game. none of the other "fixes" make any difference. however it does NOT crash on my computer with a 9600k and a GTX980. so it seems to be an issue with 9700K and/or 2070 supers (maybe just the RTX series as a whole). im not sure but either way its wild that TONS of people are getting this and EA hasn't fixed it yet. why not just roll back the game to before the update? it was working fine then!
I cant even get one game in with out it crashing to white screen anyone find a fix for it yet?
I had the same issue, as stated also in this thread, till today, I tried repair, reinstalling with Origin, tried the EA Desktop Beta, all didn't help.
Today, since I had flickering when another program was open, I did a clean uninstall of nvidia Driver and installed the older version 460.89 so far today no crashes (had 21 crashes until yesterday) will keep you updated if any appears, but so far I played about 10 games and no crash, fingers crossed.
Ryzen 9 3900x
RTX 2080 Super
UPDATE: After 20 Games without a crash, I had two today again,... so,...
- @khornettv My RTX 2070 also tried to re-install to 460.89, but it only after 5 games then still freezed
A new update was released today
https://apexlegends.gamepedia.com/January_14,_2021_Patch
"Fixed an issue with the game freezing on PC."
Have you noticed an improvement?
I haven't had a crash since the update yesterday and played around 10 games (was at something between 30 and 35 crashes, yeah one really stops counting after a time,...), however I also head to reinstall since EA Desktop* wouldn't allow me to update the game. I am back to Origin now.
* I tried EA Desktop last week to see if this might help after reinstalling through Origin didn't help
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