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Yesterday I could run the game on any map in any mode at 250Fps consistently with 1% lows touching 230 FPS. But after the updated everything is cooked, looking 30 degrees down and towards the middle of the map (of any of the maps in rotation) pushed my fps down to 140 with the ultimate lows when im around water to 90 fps this is unplayable at the highest levels which I wanted to push for top 100 today. I have deleted shader cache, DDU my drivers and reinstalled, reset bios and only turned on XMP, repaired apex, downloaded apex on steam, checked for thermal throttling, even tried running the game in DX11. all this resulting in a slightly better performance 180fps - 220fps, but still dropping to 160 fps when looking in specific spots
Specs
I9-14900k, aorus z790 MB, Corsair titan 360 rx cooler, 32gb ddr5 6000 mhz, 850 w power supply, AMD 7900 xt 20 GB.
Luckly also ran into a dev named Sheepy in a mixtape, they said they would bring it up but if anyone has any solutions I am more then happy to give them a shot <3
Could this be something wrong with the performance update for AMD CPU's or an easy anti cheat issue?
Resolved : Title: Temporary fix for severe FPS drops after the June 24 update on Intel CPUs
After the June 24 update, my Apex performance dropped from a stable 144 FPS to approximately 50-80 FPS in real matches. Lowering graphics settings, clearing the shader cache, changing NVIDIA settings and restricting CPU affinity did not fix it.
Test system:
- Intel Core i7-14700F
- NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super
- Gigabyte Z790 AORUS Elite DDR4
- Windows 11
- Steam
During the problem:
- GPU utilization was only around 47%
- Several CPU threads were nearly saturated
- The GPU was waiting for CPU work
- The issue was much worse in real matches than in the Firing Range
Temporary workaround:
Disable Intel Hyper-Threading in the motherboard BIOS.
For Gigabyte Z790 motherboards:
- Restart the PC and repeatedly press Delete to enter BIOS.
- Press F2 for Advanced Mode.
- Open Tweaker.
- Open Advanced CPU Settings.
- Set Hyper-Threading Technology to Disabled.
- Press F10, save and restart.
After disabling Hyper-Threading, Task Manager changed from 20 cores / 28 logical processors to 20 cores / 20 logical processors. Apex immediately returned to stable 144 FPS in real matches.
This suggests the update introduced a worker-thread scheduling or synchronization regression on some Intel CPUs. Disabling Hyper-Threading changes the CPU topology seen by the game and avoids the problem.
Important:
- This is a temporary workaround, not a permanent fix.
- Do not disable E-cores.
- Only change the Hyper-Threading setting.
- Heavy rendering, compiling and compression workloads may lose some performance while Hyper-Threading is disabled.
- Re-enable Hyper-Threading after Respawn releases a proper fix.
- BIOS menus differ between motherboard manufacturers.
Please report your CPU, motherboard and before/after FPS results so Respawn can identify the affected configurations.