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5 years ago

GPU Usage up to 100% in lobby screen and in game.

While I'm tabbed into the game GPU usage consistently goes up to 75% - 100% and stays there. Feels almost like a crypto miner it's so bad. It makes it unbearable to stay in my room as I have a fairly powerful PC and a small room so it gets very hot, very quickly.

I see other posts from Febuary of 2019 about "GPU Usage 100%" and I wonder that if this has been an issue for more than 2 years, and replies on recent posts to just wait for a fix... How long are we supposed to wait? I think this is a serious issue and needs to be fixed sooner rather than later.

18 Replies

EA_Illium
EA Staff (Retired)
5 years ago
@CB1000XX Are you running anything else with Apex?
CB1000XX
5 years ago
@EA_Illium Yes, but isn't everyone?

Some of the stuff I have running, Discord, spotify, F.lux, Steam (which is what I'm running apex through), occasionally a chrome tab and some background applications most likely.

I've been under the impression from friends and various sources on the internet that this is a bug in apex and not an issue with anybody's PC since it's so common. If I'm wrong please feel free to correct me.
Partunu
5 years ago
@CB1000XX I was working on this yesterday. Something appears to be a little different with the game engine. What I did was set vsync to triple in game. For whatever reason that took me from 100% to about 45%. FWIW I have a amd system with r1600 and rx580 8g.
CB1000XX
5 years ago
@Partunu That does help a little bit, saves me maybe 2-5% of my GPU but it's still very high.
PsyhiX69
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I have also encountered this one time. I think this has something to do with EasyAntiCheat not the game binary itself...
EA_Illium
EA Staff (Retired)
5 years ago
@CB1000XX Apologies wanted to get further information, I have seen other reports of this was well curious of any similarities, would it be possible to also get a DxDiag?
CB1000XX
5 years ago
@EA_Illium Sure, hope it helps.
CB1000XX
5 years ago
@PsyhiX69 I did find a fix involving this just now, I'll get back to you on whether it worked for me or not.
EA_Illium
EA Staff (Retired)
5 years ago
@CB1000XX Wanted to check if you meant to add the dxdiag doc, I don't see it. Also was wondering if you can share the fix you found?
FR35H_tv
5 years ago
i'm somebody completely different, but i have the same issues. i can run cod cold war at max settings at 20% gpu usage but apex stays at 100%. no other game has this issue. my pc has no issues with it, i've tried reinstalling the game, verifying integrity, clearing cache, etc. literally haven't been able to play apex since the summer update. can we get a fix or an actual solution to this please? i want to be able to actually *play the game* with my friends.