Apex Legends: Microstutters on a high-end PC.
Hello EA and all the people on the forum. Maybe you'll be able to help me with this problem that I've had for a while now. Ever since season 15, I've had this issue with Apex Legends stuttering a lot randomly. This can both occur in the shape of rapid stutters in gun fights, but it can also occur outside of gunfighting, and even within the range. Firstly I'd like to present the PC that I'm using to play with:
GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 10GB OC Ventus
CPU: Intel i9-10850k
RAM: 2x Corsair Vengeance 16GB
Motherboard: ASUS Z490-Plus TUF
Case: Corsair Carbide 275R Tempered Glass Black VG Edition
Power Supply: Corsair RM850x (Modular gold)
Cooler: Termalright Macho Rev.B
Storage: Intel 660P 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD
As you can see, it's a pretty powerful PC, and it was one of the top pc's by the time I bought it, and even now, it runs Apex with a stable 240 fps in almost every instance. However, despite this, these stutters still happen. Below are a list of changes that I've tried to do to make the stuttering stop, but to no avail:
- Change my video settings within Apex
- Change my video settings through the videocfg text file
- Enabling low latency mode through Nvidia
- Playing the game through Origin instead of steam
- Running the game, as well as steam/origin as admin
- Playing on a lower resolution (I play 1920x1080 normally. I tried 1728x1080)
- Putting power management on "Prefer maximum performance" through Nvidia
- Turning on VSYNC and triple buffering
- Closing Battlenet
- Closing Vanguard anti-cheat (VALORANT anti-cheat)
- Closing all google chrome tabs
- Making sure that nothing in the background is updating or taking up too much CPU/VRAM/Normal RAM.
- Playing with and without OBS open
- Updating my Nvidia drivers (It actually fixed it for a single day, but then the stutters came back again. I don't think it was the new driver doing anything though)
- Playing windowed borderless (This just added input lag on top of the already bad stutters that randomly occur)
- Playing with NVIDIA reflex set to ON, OFF, and ON+Boost.
- Playing with Texture streaming on every single setting
- Playing with and without TSAA
- Reinstalling Windows (I'm on Windows 10 btw)
It is to be noted that I ran a test with NVIDIA shadowplay, and another benchmark tool, and neither of them show any kind of inconsistency when the stutters are occuring. I also have to state that these kind of stutters don't happen in any other game that I've played recently:
- Terraria
- Valheim
- PUBG
- CS:GO
- VALORANT
- Warzone 2
- Black ops III
- Black ops II
- Black ops
- Aim Lab
By now, I'm about to be fed up with this game, and if this site can't help me, I don't think anything can. If you need, I can send you a video showing how the stutters look (Both a twitch clip and a Medal clip).
*Berghzy
