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1337melki's avatar
5 years ago

[FIX] Apex Utilizing 100% CPU in lobby/game

Good day everyone,

I've seen a lot of posts, trying to figure out why Apex is utilizing 100% CPU, even on high-end systems.  I was someone experiencing these issues even with a pretty decent rig.  It was effecting my stream quality, and experience in all video games.

Anyways, I found that a lot of these users that were having issues had windows installed onto an SSD.  Because you have an SSD, there are some windows services that negatively effect your SSD+Processor while running the the background.  Those services are Windows Superfetch, Windows Prefetch, Windows Indexing, Windows Search, ClearPageFileShutDown, and LargeSystem Cache.  Once I disabled all of these services, in the registry or through 'service.msc', there was a HUGE INCREASE in performance and my CPU was no longer stuck at 100% while gaming.


References:
-How to disable windows services-
https://www.maketecheasier.com/12-things-you-must-do-when-running-a-solid-state-drive-in-windows-7/
-Posts about this issue-
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Apex-Legends-100-CPU-and-GPU-usage-Season6/td-p/9484260
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Apex-Legends-using-way-too-much-CPU-Stutter-Framedrops/td-p/7439907/
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/High-GPU-and-CPU-Usage-in-Anthem/td-p/7496459/
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Insane-GPU-usage-even-at-low-settings-with-high-end-computer/td-p/7419565/
-Should I disable SuperFetch?-
https://www.tenforums.com/general-support/83597-should-i-disable-superfetch.html

My Rig:
Motherboard - HP 84FD
GPU - Nvidia RTX 2070
CPU - Intel i7-8700k @ 3.2GHz
RAM - HyperX DDR4 32GB
LG 240Hz Monitor
256GB SSD

1TB HDD x2

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  • @1337melki Thanks for posting, wanted to add:

    Enable ClearPageFileShutDown-> Will make your pc shut down/restart take much longer
    LargeSystem Cache->already disabled for desktop users
    Disable Windows search/indexing-> you wont be able to find specific files on your pc

    Windows prefetch is renamed to Sysmain in services.msc