Thank you so much for the info, once again. I'm in the same boat for using 7 for now (at least until the lack of support forces a change) but I hadn't even considered dual-boot since I'm not terribly savvy on that kind of thing. I'll be looking into it.
Definitely a weird situation where a single game compels me to try to radically overhaul my setup just because it's that enjoyable.
I wasn't either but I managed it.
There's youtube guides on how to create a bootable USB for windows 10 which can get you through most of it. All you need for that is an 8gb or more USB and a windows 10 key (or if you have previously used windows 10 on that pc, no need for key).
Then you restart your PC, go to BIOS, and choose your USB as your boost evice.
Then it asks you where you want to install windows 10. Like I mentioned before, you either have to partition your drive to have a separate space to install windows 10 so it doesn't overwrite windows 7. I have never once messed with drive partitioning before, so I actually just installed it on my 2nd SSD so I didn't have to learn (I use 2x256GB samsung SSDs).
Windows still detects that I have multiple versions installed even though they're on different drives, and gives me the easy one-click screen on startup to choose windows 7 or 10. So you can either watch some guides on partitioning drives, ask a savvy friend for help, or if you have a second hard drive or SSD you can install windows 10 to that.
Highly recommend, apex is so much fun when the game actually works, it might take a few hours but it's well worth.
by now it seems clear that the crashes are not hardware related at all. WIN 7 seems to be causing it for whatever reason.
as much as i love this game its barely playable. i can live with the other random crashes (gpu related, the ones without error, disconnections,game crashing on startup etc) but the memory crash often happens as much as in 50% of the games i play. this needs a fix NOW.
if the win7 userbase is so small that its not a priority fine, say game requires win 10 and ill just move on to something else... the game is amazing but at the same time the most frustrating expirience i had with a game in years..
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first game after this post. kill leader, downed one of the last remaining squad,about to flank the other 2 engaged with my team -> memory crash. fun times....
I was playing and sniping and when I click on shift to run I got this crash. It is not the first time that it is in the same time I click on a key.
Do you have this feeling ?
Could it be related to a specific area or object? Because sometimes i crash immediately while other times i run for 10 minutes for crash to happen. It doesnt look like Apex has a crash handle and report tools so they might be in complete dark right now. This Origin app is such a crap, game is good though if it wasnt for the constant crashing. I might install Win10 later, not sure, i have few SSD laying around, but i dont like the hassle of booting into different OS just to play 1 game.
you always press keys. the error happens completly random. sometimes at the very second it transitions to the dropship, sometimes while running 15 minutes into a game or fighting 3 minutes into one. sometimes 4 games in a row, sometimes not for 2 hours.
in 5 hrs today playing with randoms from lfg discord we finished maybe 40% of the games without someone crashing(not only this memory error ofc). the game is broken for many people.
and as much as i was hyped for the season coming up i wont spent a cent on a broken game no matter how good it is. i heard people throwing things at the wall over crashing and then joining for another just to ragequit when the very next game they crashed again.
people love this game but damn its just broken right now.
and tbh its troubling to me that the Device hung crash is stickied in here and talked about in the weekly which seems to be mostly related to driver issues since rolling back to older builds fixes it mostly but the memory crash and errorless straight to desktop one get ignored...
@DasMachineeNo, it has happened absolutely everywhere for me. Whether I'm interacting with something or not, in the menus, in the game, etc.
If you consider rebooting more of a hassle than crashing out of 50% of your games, that's fair, but if you're serious about wanting to play the game then I'd recommend it.
@victoriauwu
PC is not just one game for me. I also play dota and do other things. If migrating to win10 was so easy and fun i would have done it ages ago. Its just not for me atm. I havent played fps for a long time and im not that good at it, so its a consideration for me. Game looks fun though, but should i take extra steps for it? Dont know yet.
