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4 years ago

Apex Lagging but no FPS Drop

I run Apex on all low settings, V-Sync off, texture streaming budget at very low, only item that is enabled is NVidea Reflex, which is Enabled + Boost. I keep a constant 143 FPS while in game, but ra...

KeoniFRFX

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4 years ago

@OoShellshock I'm not so sure now, it might be hardware related. I was playing a match earlier, keep in mind all settings low, and then my game started lagging. I checked my task manager and my ram usage was extraordinarily high, up to 5,000+ MB. My wallpaper engine wallpaper on my second monitor started to lag whilst Apex was running because of this. Though I run everything on low, including the VRAM usage, so I'm not sure as to why it takes so much RAM to run. Unless this is just inevitable and I have to restart Apex every time the RAM usage gets to high, I'm not to sure what to do.

OoShellshock

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4 years ago

@KeoniFRFX To first answer the other question. You can't set ram usage, this is coded automatically into the game and it allocates memory based off of how much ram it requires for different tasks. If you're saying Apex Legends itself is using 5GB of ram, yes that is extraordinarily high. When I use only about 3.4GB or so at 1440p about medium settings. As far as I know to my knowledge this occurs due to this factor: System RAM is shared with your GPU in case you run low or out of VRAM, which could cause Apex to show it is using more ram to compensate for the VRAM running out which would cause your game to lag due to System RAM being a lot slower than VRAM. When this lag occurs you can actually go to task manager and the performance tab and click your GPU within the list shown and view the "Dedicated" GPU memory in that list, and you'll see "Dedicated GPU memory X/X". The right number is the VRAM your card has which based off the DXDIAG file is 5,991MB or 5.9GB. Since you have a dual monitor setup and wall paper engine you will use more VRAM than normal on those features. Monitor the VRAM to make sure that isn't the issue, and limit GPU intensive applications while playing Apex.

KeoniFRFX
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4 years ago
@OoShellshock That makes a lot more sense. I just watched a video explaining VRAM and I think I understand it a little more. Since my second monitor is a lot bigger than my main one, I'm going to try to take off wallpaper engine on it and just put a still wallpaper instead. I'll see how this goes while playing Apex sometime, and I'll get back to you either if I see the lag happening again or no lag at all. Hopefully this resolves it, as I think this may be the issue, just to much VRAM usage on things other than Apex Legends.
- OoShellshock
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  4 years ago
  @KeoniFRFX You can check the VRAM usage in task manager like I stated earlier by looking at the "Dedicated GPU memory". Check it first before even running the game to see what it says. On my system I only use about 0.5GB on the desktop with my web browser open.
  - KeoniFRFX
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    4 years ago
    @OoShellshock Thank you, I just checked right now. So with everything that I have open whilst playing, (Discord, my two monitors with moving wallpapers, web browser, and steam,) I'm using 1.0 / 6.0 GB of VRAM. This is without opening Apex by the way. If that's the case, with the lowest option for the texture streaming budget in Apex being 2-3 GB of VRAM (If I remember correctly), isn't it strange as to why it is lagging then? Because I should still at least have a gigabyte of vram left, unless I'm thinking about the whole situation wrong.