Re: Stuttering issues after genesis update

I understand if I had fps drops, but ping and fps are good, but microsstutering accompanies me in every match, and what is the problem? in every match, and what is the problem?

even to me the components don't jump to 100% cpu and gpu use, that's amazing

@L4JKAN Have you expanded your task manager to show you all your cores at once instead of the default view of Total CPU usage. Every case I have seen has Total CPU usage below 100%, but one core is at 100% when their stuttering happens.

@li1quid I was just suggesting you check your GPU since you mentioned you could reproduce your issue every time when using your GPU ram. If you clear out the three caches I listed, hopefully one of those files was corrupted and it gets fixed by being rebuilt. We're all in the same boat. We can run all other games great, and even Apex has always ran great, but now it doesn't for all of us. The bottom-line is that in it's current state, it shouldn't need the resources it uses, but the facts are there that it does now. It hogs on memory and now needs more than 8GB system memory to optimally load the game. If you have a strong GPU but a weaker CPU, you will be in a world of hurt with the high single CPU core issue. If you are not on an SSD, you will feel pain every time you load the game since it loads all 5GB-6GB of data from your drive to system memory. Non-SSD players won't be able to play a good match for 4-5 minutes. The game is just really bad right now from an optimization point of view.

@lPumpsDadl I'm not 100% used, that's not what it's about, see screenshot

@Fasty07 Is that WD Black 1TB the SSD or old school spinning/mechanical disk? If you go back a page and read my post in the disk usage section, you'll see that Apex now loads the entire data off hard disk at start (around 5GB-6GB). On and SSD, that takes about a minute, so isn't a huge deal since it takes that long to get in your first match. On spinning disk, that will take 4-5 minutes, so it will affect your first match or more. Every time the game decides to read a lot of data from the drive, it will take really long for non-SSD PCs.

@L4JKAN What is your "normal" FPS and what does it fluctuate at when you get stuttering/skipping?

@lPumpsDadl The point is that I was playing with msi afterburner which was on all the time and nothing jumped, I do not have a typical stutter, I have microstutter, the fps in the game are good, they do not fall off, I have 165hz rtx 2070 ryzen 5 3600 16gb xmp monitor on, I play with locked fps at 165 by rivatuner, if it unlocks fps it's only worse, the game is unplayable, I have a game installed on the m2 disk, every other game runs smoothly but not this one

@L4JKAN welcome to the club. Apex also used to run fine for all of us, but here we are. Ever since around Genesis, performance changed for all of us. It feels different to everybody depending on the mix of hardware they have. On a side note, for most games, especially the ones incorporating Nvidia Reflex, you will get lower input lag by having the game engine limit your FPS versus something outside the game engine like Rivatuner or Nvidia Control Panel settings. I've tested this and felt the difference in Valorant and CSGO. Even in previous versions of Apex, but right now with such bigger problems, small input delay tuning is a moot point with Apex. When Apex gets better, enable FPS limit in game, take it off Rivatuner, and enable Reflex with boost (if you have your own custom GPU OC, then just enable Reflex without the boost).

@lPumpsDadl It's the SSD, nvme.
I tried to check my disk activity during the drop, but i don't think the disk is guilty....

@Fasty07 You'll be fine then. On SSD or PCIe (NVMe), the game finishes loading about 1 minute after opening the game. By the time you get a server for your first match, it has been more than 1 minute. I feel sorry for people on spinning disks (mechanical).