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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...

EA_Darko

Community Manager

4 years ago

Hey @KeoniFRFX good to see that it appears that you are getting to the bottom of the issue.

It's important to remember that high Vram usage isn't necessarily a bad thing and if the game requires more ram than your Vram then you can see issues with frame rate drops as it is using system memory resulting in it having to shift things like texture between Vram and ram.

Darko

KeoniFRFX

4 years ago

@EA_Darko seems like i still ended up lagging even though I was fine in the firing range haha. I was playing a match today and lagged when my ram hit 5000 mb for some reason, crazy numbers. My VRAM was about 5.1 i think, so that's probably why it started lagging. How can I prevent my ram from going so high? Cuz i think the problem has to rely on the game using more system ram than VRAM.

EA_Darko
Community Manager
4 years ago
Hey @KeoniFRFX if your Vram is below the minimum the game requires to run then it will use your system ram also. If seeing an issue with lagging then the best thing to do is to lower all settings and resolution.

Darko
KeoniFRFX
4 years ago
@EA_Darko I have 6 gigs of vram, all my settings are already the lowest, this only happens with apex legends, as i said before.
OoShellshock
4 years ago
@KeoniFRFX The typical only reason a game would use more RAM than normal is if you run low on VRAM and the game compensates by using more RAM. Or there could be a memory leak in the game's coding, which is very doubtful. I don't experience this issue however, but it could be related to specified hardware such as GPU. What you could do is type "advanced system settings" in windows search and then open "settings" under performance and click "Change" under virtual memory. If you have an SSD, I would recommend you to set the paging file to it and make sure it's system managed. Also delete and freshly install the newest GPU driver. When I play I haven't seen the game go over about 3.5GB RAM usage. But I have a 8GB GPU, and the VRAM isn't close to being used up. Make sure your RAM isn't at about 90% as well.