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@The_Tibber wrote:I dont think its the GPU, his CPU should not be bottlenecking a 970.
Im thinking it could be virus or malware related.
Oh *, I hope your wrong. It does seem strange that it uses so much processing power, but ImI alwaus very careful on the internet and I have Windoes Defender (I know, I know, definitely not the best) and I've also never had this before with a game.
Besides, there are othet people that are having similar issues, so I don't think (and hope) that it's a virus or malware something...
A virus would be an easier diagnosis to fix than a coding issue with the game tbh.
- 7 years ago
Here's the screenshot:
- Zeelmaekers7 years agoHero+
Try to lower Dynamic Spot Shadow, ragdolls, effect details.
i don't know if you already tried this.
- 7 years ago
Alright before you reduce effects like zeelmaekers suggested lets offload some of the work to the GPU.
Open Nvidia control panel and go here:

Set the processor to your gtx 970.
Go here:

and set the ambient occulation like so.
Then go here: (if you cant find the Apex legends in the drop menu, click the Add button to add it to your settings

Turn off threaded optimisation and just below is triple buffering disable this also.
apply everything and jump back into game to see the difference.
- 7 years ago
I turn off Vsync, blah blah ... and here ...
When I start game, my CPU is up to 8-9x%....
- 7 years ago
Did this ever get resolved? Suffering from the same issue.
- 7 years ago
@ZaddyIssues wrote:Did this ever get resolved? Suffering from the same issue.
Technically it's not solved yet. I tried everything listed in this post and I have also updated my drives recently.
I just haven't had any crashes lately. One more thing I tried which might have helped (somehow?) was the following:- Open the Origin Launcher
- Go to My Game Library
- Find Apex Legends and right-click the game
- Select Game Properties
- Click the Advanced Launch Options tab
- In Command line arguments type in +fps_max unlimited
- Click Save
- Done!
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