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4 years ago

Apex lags when I move my mouse

I havent played apex from my pc since the beginning of season 11. Back then everything worked perfectly fine. I've updated apex, launched it and it lags in the main menu for a minute or so. After tha...

EA_Kent

Community Manager

4 years ago

Thanks for the updates, everyone.

Has anyone else tried lowering their mouse polling rate to see if you notice a difference? I know it's not ideal, but I am curious if that is a consistent way to mitigate the issue.

slimants

4 years ago

@EA_Kent @Toilet-Ducky Lowering does mitigate the issue to an extent, like ducky said and I have experienced myself it doesn't fix the stuttering. Theres still periodic stuttering happening it just starts to feel less severe at lower polling rates. Low polling rates feels awful and having to lower it to play and increase it back again when you're finished playing is just counterintuitive. I hope this is on the devs radar to fix because it isnt posted on the apex bug tracker on trello. I suspect this has something to do with hyperion including in the july 28th update.