PC freezes ~0.5s while firing, buffered input replays after
Since Nov 8 the game freezes for about half a second, a few times per session, almost always while I am firing. The picture stops, keyboard and mouse do nothing during that half second, and when it comes back every click and movement I made during the freeze happens at once and the character snaps to a new spot.
Steps to reproduce: go into the Firing Range solo, hold fire on a dummy for a while. The freeze happens within a few minutes. It also happens in real matches, mostly during fights.
It is only Apex. Other games on the same PC are fine. No crash, no black screen, no flicker, no disconnect. Ping is about 20 ms with no red icons.
PC: Ryzen 5 7500F, RTX 3070 Ti 8GB, 32GB DDR5-6000, single NVMe SSD, Windows 11 build 26200, NVIDIA 621.14. Apex v3.0.1.30 through the EA app, 1080p 239 Hz exclusive fullscreen, all settings low, no frame cap.
Sampling at 0.16 s shows that during the freeze Apex itself still uses 1.1 to 1.5 cores and the GPU drops to 5 to 11 percent, while total system CPU falls from 41 to 11 percent and no other process picks up the freed cores. So it looks like the game stalls on its own main thread, not CPU contention, not disk, and no TDR.
I can attach the CSV and DxDiag if that helps. Is this a known issue with v3.0.1.30 or the Javelin anticheat?
