[CONFIRMED BUG] Severe FPS Drops & CPU Bottleneck Since Season 27

Yeah these specs are a joke for years now. Not sure what is the point of a company to lie about it?

Do companies intentionally try to sell you the game you will not play because of sub-par / unplayable experience? Or do they think that after getting a game and realizing your can't play it -> you will instantly go and buy better PC?

After quitting Apex did try The Finals, was super excited to see that my hardware exactly is listed as recommended (not minimal!) => launched the game, could not get more than 60-70fps on normal (not even high or ultra) quality, barely could hit 120-140 fps with basically unplayable image quality with upscaling. This game runs even WORSE than Apex.

Switched to Deadlock -> game runs super smooth with 140 fps+ and very nice quality image.

Just proves that people who care about gaming and have high standards (aka Valve - not ideal yet still one of the best from AAA I would say) still can find the way to get good game out that runs on older GPUs / CPUs vs requiring 500$+ hardware.

This is the problem......Unless your a streamer or a pro they are not interested in fixing whats broken (Every Season there is a problem) the average Joe calls it out and its ignored....

This from Apex official Site.

APEX LEGENDS RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

While players with the minimum specifications will be able to play Apex Legends just fine, those looking to get the best possible experience will want to ensure they meet our recommended specs for smooth 60fps gameplay.

• OS: 64-bit Windows 10
• CPU: Intel i5 3570K or equivalent  (4 cores 4 threads??????)
• RAM: 8GB
  
• GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290  (4GB RAM??????)
• GPU RAM: 8GB 
• HARD DRIVE: Minimum 75 GB of free space

So unless you know a Brazilian modder who has a 8GB GTX970 or R9 290???????? how will these recommended GPUs run the game at a smooth 60FPS when we have far better specs and struggle to get 60FPS in fights?

TMac_intosh​ 

Any update??? 

The game is unplayable for most.

Remove Olympus from map rotation as that is unplayable, like it was a few seasons back.

If you are on AMD GPU I would suggest checking game performance on drivers 25.9.1. or even earlier.

For me on my 5700xt drivers after 25.9.2. broke Valorant with similar issue = before I got like 200+ FPS, after driver updates (every one of the following 3? till now) I got stutters and FPS drops be 100+ in game at random.

Reverted back, created AMD ticket, their reply was to revert back to whatever worked for me :D

Also upon review in most cases older GPUs don't get any significant boosts as in most driver patch notes only new compatible games are mentioned and some additional stuff / bug fix for latest GPUs.

Hope it helps!

It's such a shame it makes olympus completely **bleep** unplayable, such a **bleep** shame, fps drops into the 80s when previously I would barely drop below 140, NOTHING is wrong with my rig, this is completely a game issue and it's **bleep** ridiculous.

HOW IS IT WHEN I PLAY OLYMPUS RANKED, I HAVE 70FPS AVERAGES, HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW,, WHEN LAST SEASON I HAD STABLE 178 WHICH IS MY CAP, HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, IT'S SO FRUSTRATING MAN
This is so unfair man, how does this issue affect so little of us, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US, HOW CAN STREAMERS PLAY WITH NO ISSUES WHATSOVER

2 month old post, still having issues, will we get any info of value? Is this even being looked at? I see so many streamers with no issues so maybe they think people without nasa pcs aren't worth anything? My 12400 and 6750xt isn't even that bad to warrant 80fps in certain occasions, like mid fight, it's impossible to function, I get better fps in battlefield 6 for goodness sake, HOW?

Its not your rig bro.

Updating to 32g of Ram will in no way fix this and you.ll just be wasting money.

The game is broken for a lot of users in S27 and its game Engine related.

Quick update!

Make sure you completely disable GameBar. Simply disabling it in Windows settings is not enough, because every time you start the game, GameBar activates automatically. You need to make sure you disable it in the registry editor.

I noticed that Apex was causing memory leaks. After 2-3 hours of gameplay, RAM usage would jump from 30% to 85%, and when I restarted the game, the data wasn't cleared, which overloaded my RAM and sometimes caused screen freezes and unstable FPS. It's a bit annoying, but make sure you download a tool to clean your RAM as often as necessary. Even though in theory Apex normally uses between 6 and 10 GB of RAM, for some reason I don't know, the game uses about 12 GB of RAM for me. If you only have 16 GB of RAM and your RAM is being used by other programs, you may find yourself short. With Dx11, the resources were more than sufficient, but with the switch to Dx12, I feel like the game is more demanding and requires more RAM. I think upgrading to 32 GB of RAM would be a good idea.

Merci pour le résumé. La plupart des joueurs se contentent d'allumer leur PC et c'est à peu près tout ce qu'ils font. Ce n'est pas une solution de dépenser 400-500 $ pour obtenir un jeu gratuit stable. Si c'était le cas, la plupart passeraient aux consoles. C'est un problème au niveau du moteur, le 'Source Engine', qu'Apex utilise et qui a plus de 20 ans. Il ne peut subir que certaines modifications avant de rendre l'âme, et c'est ce qui se passe. Plus ils ajoutent de contenu, plus il a du mal à 'suivre', surtout avec du matériel de jeu basique.

Thanks for the rundown. Most gamers just switch thier PC on and thats about as far as they can go. This is not a solution by spending $400-500 to get a free game to be stable. If that was the case most would go console. This is an Engine level fault 'Source Engine' which Apex uses and it is 20+ years old. It can only take so much modifications before it burns out and thats whats happening. The more they add to it, the more it struggles to 'keep up' especially with basic gaming equipment.

Je rencontrais des problèmes de performance depuis juillet dernier, suite à une mise à jour du BIOS. J'ai ensuite changé de processeur, passant d'un i5 12400f pour un i5 14600k et acheté une carte mère ASUS Prime B760 DDR4. À ma grande surprise, les performances en jeu restaient inchangées, toujours les mêmes chutes de FPS et une latence d'entrée insupportable.

Le problème semble résolu pour le moment après avoir effectué ces actions :

- Activation du profil XMP dans le BIOS

- Sous-tension du processeur à -0,1 V

- Désactivation des états C

- Activation de l'hyperthreading, si désactivé, un goulot d'étranglement est garanti sur Apex

- Passage de l'application Steam à l'application EA avec Apex installé sur un disque dur externe (Seagate 1 To)

- Installation de Process Lasso

- Avant toute manipulation du processus lasso, désactivez le mode jeu dans Windows.

- Sélection d'une priorité processeur élevée pour le lanceur STEAM ou EA  EADekstop.exe

- Uniquement sur r5.apex.exe, sélectionnez l'affinité du processeur/sélectionnez les cœurs physiques p-cores, dans mon cas 2,4,6,8,10 et désactivez les cœurs électroniques (E-cores) si vous en avez.

Dans le lanceur Steam ou l'application EA, saisissez la commande : -high 

Mes FPS fluctuent entre 200 et 240, et je descends rarement en dessous, même pendant les combats les plus intenses. Je ne sais pas exactement quel changement a résolu mon problème, mais je suppose que c'est l'installation du jeu sur un disque dur externe. Curieusement, lorsque j'ouvre Apex sur mon SSD interne, je subis constamment des latences d'entrée et des FPS instables, malgré toutes les optimisations appliquées.