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4 years ago

Monitor goes into power saving mode when playing Apex...

ISSUE: Upon playing Apex Legends the game will inevitably cause my monitor to go into "power saving" mode and essentially power down the monitor. If I restart the monitor it will no longer pick up a ...

EA_Kent

Community Manager

4 years ago

Hey @JoosyTheGoose,

It's definitely weird that it would only be happening with Apex Legends. Have you tried using a different monitor cable to test and see if that makes any difference at all? Sometimes a bad cable can cause issues like this.

/Kent

JoosyTheGoose
4 years ago
Hello, I'm gonna order another cable and see how it goes. Thanks for replying!
- EA_Kent
  Community Manager
  4 years ago
  @JoosyTheGoose
  
  Sure thing! Let me know how it goes once you're able to try it out.
  
  /Kent
  - JoosyTheGoose
    4 years ago
    Think the HDMI port coming from my laptop must be 1.0, because the monitor is completely locked to 60Hz when I use it even with a new 2.0 cable. Any way around that?