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EA_Lanna
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5 years ago

Re: Apex Legends: 100% CPU and GPU usage | Season6

Hi @OwerGrowen, 

Could you try the recommended workaround from @Zeelmaekers TS guide (see here) for this issue: 

@Zeelmaekers wrote:

Apex Freezing and showing 100% CPU usage in Task Manager.

Players are experiencing Apex Legends freezing and noticing Apex Legends is utilizing 100% of the CPU.
This issue looks only to be related so certain CPUs (I5-I7-I9) and some Ryzen Processors.

Recommended Workaround: 
Launch Apex Legends and alt-tab out to the game.
Open task manager, find Apex Legends, right-click and select Go to details.
Select r5Apex.exe and right-click and click set Affinity, uncheck <all processors> and check only 4 cores or less.

If you still experiencing this issue, try to set usable cores to 4 or less.
This issue was fixed by a patch, this workaround might not work for new issues
Apex Legends Dev Tracker - PC game hangs with 100% CPU usage 

Thanks, 

EA_Lanna

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  • Crimusak's avatar
    Crimusak
    4 years ago
    @EA_Lanna And what about... fix the problem when you did this with last update instead let players trying to fix it by themself... After last update all of my friends got this problems... all of them... me neither. So just fix the game. you already ruined game enought with bugs so atleast you could get fast repair...
  • specwolf82's avatar
    specwolf82
    4 years ago

    DO NOT LISTEN TO LANA!!! SHE HAS NO CLUE WHAT SHES DOING OR TALKING ABOUT        LANA! REALLY?!?!?! Half the damn player base has 100% CPU usage since the update.... and you are telling people to mess with their CPU cores as a fix?!?!?!?!? ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!? WHY DONT YOU TELL THE DEVS TO FIX THE GOD DAMN ISSUE, WE SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON THIS GAME.. THIS IS GETTING BAD, UR GONNA CATCH A LAWSDUIT FOR FRYING PPLS CPU'S

  • FARDIN_SAMA's avatar
    FARDIN_SAMA
    4 years ago

    im start to thinking about what if EA  or respawn or ....  are mining with our setups ??(LOL)??  cus there is no other way left to use for solving this * problem /// it started happening for me  me since this genesis event update and every time i tried to play i had my cpu and gpu on max temp and usage ///  can not even imagine how many swears i received  from other players who played with me / they have right but i cant left playing this game after spending lots of  money and tons of time on it /// and yes i tried every thing that was showed on the internet topics and videos  // reinstalling windows / game / steam / trying it on origin /// set max fps and...... elc   

  • VoKks9's avatar
    VoKks9
    4 years ago

    @EA_Lanna

    This does not fix the issue, and I'm honestly amazed to see this coming from a community manager.

    Yes, it won't show 100% CPU usage in task manager anymore. Why? Because you just disabled half of your CPU, not because this is a 'fix'. To anyone reading this, please don't be fooled.

    If you have eight cores and you disable 4 of them, you now have 50% of your CPU available to Apex, so if you have 50% of your CPU available, and Apex is using 50%, do the math...Apex is still using 100% of what is available to it. 

  • Yoo_Shockmen's avatar
    Yoo_Shockmen
    4 years ago

    This is ridiculous,you guys should launch the update as soon as possible. 

  • FARDIN_SAMA's avatar
    FARDIN_SAMA
    4 years ago

    its like i say my leg is in pain and you tell me to cut off my leg and then i would ever feel pain in my leg / youre true but its better to not say any thing when youre out of the world

  • MintyBatsnack's avatar
    MintyBatsnack
    4 years ago

    but bruh! Who cares about gameplay! ch3ck out these sick G3n3sis 5k1n5!! They are L337!!!

  • emperorNOMAD's avatar
    emperorNOMAD
    4 years ago

    Freaking unbelievable this game is still alive. I'm dealing with this problem for 3 months now but after the recent updates it's unplayable.
    100% CPU and GPU usage on i7-9700k and rtx 3060 with 12 Gb of vram. WTF

  • EL-Lucky_Loco's avatar
    EL-Lucky_Loco
    4 years ago

    same here....... 3 weeks in this * waiting for any solution or patch and nothing

  • AweSomeMate20Pr's avatar
    AweSomeMate20Pr
    4 years ago

    this problem has been there since the earlier patch in July. I am losing my patience after trying all the methods. if it is not fixed soon, i will rather quit.

  • no_feet_pics_fc's avatar
    no_feet_pics_fc
    4 years ago
    @nessssssyyyyy
    step 1: uninstall apex and every launcher just rename apex folder to someting else
    step 2: find old and reliable gfx driver
    step 3: uninstall every Microsoft c++ redistributable
    step 4: turn off .net framework and then turn on
    step 5: restart pc
    step 6: download redistribution from microsoft site and then install
    step 7: delete mysavegames/respawn/
    step 8: install ea desktop
    step 9: delete in apex folder _Installer, easyanticheat, crashpad, r5apex, r5apexdata.bin
    step 10: login with brand new ea account
    step 11: restart pc after installing apex(i mean verfying cause u don't need to download 70gb)
    step 12: run apex as administrator, complete training, play some matches then logout and login with original account
  • Djumlija's avatar
    Djumlija
    4 years ago

    mine fix was sipmply delete assets folder in respawn folder before I start the game, CPU used to be 100% for a few mins and then went to normal but after this update this doesnt work anymore

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