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5 years ago

Apex Legends: 100% CPU and GPU usage | Season6

Hello, just like many other users so do I suffer from high CPU and GPU usage. During Gameplay on public servers, my usage percentage raise to 100% CPU and GPU System overview: Intel Core i5-8600...

EA_Lanna

Community Manager

5 years ago

Hi @OwerGrowen,

Could you try the recommended workaround from @Zeelmaekers TS guide (see here) for this issue:

@Zeelmaekers wrote:
Apex Freezing and showing 100% CPU usage in Task Manager.

Players are experiencing Apex Legends freezing and noticing Apex Legends is utilizing 100% of the CPU.
This issue looks only to be related so certain CPUs (I5-I7-I9) and some Ryzen Processors.

Recommended Workaround:
Launch Apex Legends and alt-tab out to the game.
Open task manager, find Apex Legends, right-click and select Go to details.
Select r5Apex.exe and right-click and click set Affinity, uncheck <all processors> and check only 4 cores or less.

If you still experiencing this issue, try to set usable cores to 4 or less.
This issue was fixed by a patch, this workaround might not work for new issues
Apex Legends Dev Tracker - PC game hangs with 100% CPU usage