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@EA_David wrote:@888BlackShine Hi, can I check what drivers you're using? Can you roll back to 417.35 and see if that has any increase in stability?
Hi David, EA and Everyone,
GOOD NEWS!
Downgrading NVIDIA driver to 417.35 (and maybe the below settings) did fix the crash/freeze issues completely for me! For three days, over 30-40 matches I had no even a single error/crash or freeze 😉 It runs at 4K full screen at a rock solid, water fluid like minimum 60 fps (0.1% lows too).
NVIDIA has announced a new driver for this week to fix Apex crashes but I will not rush to install that but wait for later driver updates.
What I did is uninstalled the latest NVIDIA driver (419.17) from under the Windows Device Manager panel and downloaded, installed 417.35 (not clean install option to keep my settings) and applied the settings you can see in the screenprints here. Since than I DISABLED "Adaptive supersampling" in game as I play in 4K already so it was an unnecessary overload in my case (I guess the image quality or textures will not be even better with this on?).
Please note that my GPU clock are lightly overclocked, but I did set the VRAM to stock speed to avoid potential crashes in Apex (in bench and other games it was fine anyway), but to make sure its not the VRAM OC causing issues in Apex.
I did not set any Origin launch commands, it is empty! Origin In-Game FPS counter is ON for me but MSI Afterburner/Riva In-Game monitoring is OFF for Apex to be sure its not causing issues.
Why 62 fps adaptive fps target and adaptive Vsync in game...? Because my monitor is 60Hz (overclocked to 62Hz), the VGA is MSI MINI ITX RTX2070 so with all these settings I get around 60-80 fps without any drops below 60, so adaptive vsync is not causing stuttering but drops excessive frames above 62fps (my monitor Hz), so this is my "Gsync".
@888BlackShine Thanks for the above, but this is for RTX cards. GTX cards don't have issues with the Nvidia drivers. Both Respawn devs and Nvidia mentioned that there is an issue/bug in the most recent Nvidia drivers for RTX cards which can cause crahes in Apex for RTX cards. And that they will come with a fixed/updated driver this week.
So you should actually update your drivers when they come out this week.
GTX cards can use most recent or older driver, doesn't matter, the bug in the most recent Nvidia drivers is only related to RTX cards.
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