Apex Legends crashes to desktop about 3-7 mins after landing (NO ERROR CODE)

@Broppled_TV I use Speccy to keep an eye on my laptop temp, windows 10 dosnt give that specific info. It's free

https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy

@Broppled_TV another issue I ran into was youngtree was filling his dell sd up. He only has a small sd drive for system stuff and a 1T HD for data. If you are running everything on 1 HD, then fragmentation can also be a problem. 

Is your drive over 75% full? If so these are things I do:

I moved the system page filing from the sd to a the HD. 

Nvidia cashe dumps can be enormous, esp the DX cashe. I just delete all but the most recent every now and then. 

Users/name/appdata/local/nvidia

Ccleaner for cleaning up the drive (free) 

https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner

Windows disk cleanup to get rid of old Windows update files.

To defragment (only for HD not for sd drives) defraggler 

I defrag files only monthly then complete defrag of drive every 4 months or so. (free) 

https://www.ccleaner.com/defraggler

Also system/storage show more categories, can show you where things are clogging the drive. Esp apps and features. A real culprit here for us was the clip champ app.

@Broppled_TV no worries. Hopefully we'll get you back in the field soon. 😃

@EA_Mako @OldTreeCreeper Okay, so I have ran SFC scans on the PC, I have ran Disk check in the CMD prompt, I have uninstalled and reinstalled drivers for every piece of hardware in my system. I did not DDU my GPU driver however. out of all the solutions found that's the only one I didn't attempt. and here is why, I can play warzone for 12+ hours straight max settings, ray tracing on. and no crashing no hiccups. but apex, lowest settings. game crashes instantly. I dont see the GPU driver being the problem. but I will make the DDU install today just to verify its not the issue. as opposed to the DxDiag report showing windows errors, im pretty tech savvy but when reading documents like dmp files or anything along those lines. it all looks like gibberish, so im glad someone knows how to read them. I was under the assumption that my CPU was not stable at my clock. so I went back and made sure it was stable. ran a Aida64 Stress test on all hardware for 30 mins. everything was perfect no crashes. I then stop the stress test, and only test CPU. 1 and a half hour test. never dropped below stable clock I had set. gives me solid indication that CPU should not be the problem. I have 4 SSD's I do not have any mechanical HDD's installed in the system, so no need for defragmentation. I have a page file dedicated to about 5% of my C: drive as far as I know I believe that's how that works, could be incorrect about that though. with the 4 SSD's here are the sizes and consumption on the drives.

C: 188GB  FREE / 463GB

D: 120GB FREE / 399GB

E:  This is my drive for my elgato recordings, nothing else is stored on this drive but raw footage.     19GB free / 237GB

F: 13.1 GB FREE / 111GB

I am at a loss for options. i followed a thread that had 15 possible solutions, im gonna attempt to locate that thread for reference on every possible fix that I have tried.

it does not come from the EA Answer's forum. however these are the most possible solutions that I have found in a single list.

Link: https://errorfixer.co/apex-legends-fix-crashing-freezing/

I promise im not sending you to a virus.

im at a loss for words and I have spent $300 on my skins and heirloom and the game has been unplayable for 26 consecutive days as of today.

@OldTreeCreeper opposed to the Nvidia Cache, I have located that folder. am I safe to delete the DXCache Folder, the GLCache Folder and the NvBackend Folder? 

i have 4 things within users/appdata/local/nvidia

DXcache

glCache

NvBackend

accounts

im really doing the best i can to make sure i provide you guys with as much detail as possible. i know what im doing on the PC so if we have any exotic fixes to try, im comfortable doing them as long as we make restore points prior to changes. Thank you so much for the assistance you guys are providing me with @OldTreeCreeper @EA_Mako 

@Broppled_TV I was just looking through your above setup attachment of your drives.

C drive ssd 475 gig 139 free

E drive ssd 243 gig 19 free

F drive ssd 114 gig 98 free

D drive HD 409 gig 253 free

While in theory the ssd drives should be able to run while fairly full,  my experience with yt is that's not the case,  the windoes paging really clogged his small ssd. 

Imo you should keep the c drive for system only stuff and  other non gaming programs,  but monitor the space used. 

I would put all program data on the E and F drives.

To install programs on other drives as an eg:

Say OcculusSetup.exe is downloaded in my download folder on my d drive, and I want to install it on the d drive. 

Press Windows and r key

Then type

D:\Downloads\OcculusSetup.exe  /drive=D

Your Windows paging might be OK on you c ssd as its large enough for that. Defraggler will let you see that clearly. But don't defrag ssd's. 

I would put all gaming software on your D HD drive.

The reason is the regularity and size of game updates. 

This would allow you to defragment the files after an update, running at optimum. 

Maby even partition the d drive if necessary.

Ccleaner allows you to annalise the drives to see what's on there to see what you have on there. I would start by getting rid of everything you don't need and their associated files. 

Ccleaner can also clean your registry after a cleanup. 

It might be you have to uninstall loads and reinstall,  but it will be worth it. 

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@Broppled_TV wrote:

@OldTreeCreeper opposed to the Nvidia Cache, I have located that folder. am I safe to delete the DXCache Folder, the GLCache Folder and the NvBackend Folder? 

i have 4 things within users/appdata/local/nvidia

DXcache

glCache

NvBackend

accounts

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I delete all but the most recent cashe files. DX cashe is the one to check. I don't delete the folders,  just the content 

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@Broppled_TV wrote:

@EA_Mako @OldTreeCreeper with the 4 SSD's here are the sizes and consumption on the drives.

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Sorry I presumed the d drive was a HD.