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JBarnesBee
Seasoned Novice
8 days ago

Major issue with Apex performance Dx12 and NVidia drivers

The game seems to run really bad as my Gpu isn't getting fully used its about 50% I use to in a match get 90% or more which is a good thing this has been happening for a little bit lately.

I've also been having high ping in EU servers when I live in the UK I've tried everything to fix this issue in control panel setting and maybe in NVidia control panel or any other windows fixes like disable full screen optimisation.

I feel like removing dx11 is a bad decision and even stopping support is bad as other games have both options and support it still ive also noticed with NVidia drivers recently might be the issue but I'm not sure as ive recently tried the NVidia app and apex isn't on there anymore so when I go to add apex it says not supported so not only i might not be supported on their app but also maybe the control panel which means my performance configs on NVidia control panel which is what i use more then the app to make apex run smoothly maybe are not being applied

I have a i7 13700k which I have underclocked and made sure the voltages aren't high

2x16gb ddr5 6000mhz so it would be

32gb ddr5 6000mhz

4070 Msi gaming x trio

b760 Mag tomahawk WIFI

Idk if this helps

anticheat
crashing
lag
launching
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  • HarryJaeger69's avatar
    HarryJaeger69
    Seasoned Newcomer
    4 days ago

    Agreed, I have been having the same issue especially since the DX12 and the NVIDIA driver update, I noticed that my GPU isn't fully utilized in Apex anymore, and I don't know if this has to do with shader cache but I have been noticing that Apex always tends to load the game assets whenever I go to legends character select or in-game store, leading to really high CPU temps reaching 95c despite of me having a decent perfectly-working 240mm AIO cooler with newly reapplied thermal paste, no other games do this, only in Apex. I even play RDR2 Online with ultra settings and my CPU temp only gets to 50-65c ish.

    Now everytime I'm loading Apex, my CPU temp will rapidly rise to 80-90c in a matter of minutes, especially after browsing through the in-game store. I have been wanting to play the game normally but just couldn't due to the CPU temp reason. 

    Also for those who might be wondering, I also do undervolting, I set my curve optimization to -25 on all cores, even then I edited my power plan to power efficiency mode just for Apex in hope to reduce the CPU temps but nope, the temps still spike to 95ish. I hope Respawn can resolve this issue, I need to grind my Apex rank so bad~ 

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