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.