Season 12 FPS problems are caused by increased CPU intensity.My system specs are Ryzen 5 2600 & RX 5700 XT @ 1440p 144hz monitor. Before Season 12 I had the same setup, except GPU was RX 580 8gb. Even though my GPU is massively more powerful than before, I've never had so poor FPS in this game, and I have played all the way from Season 0. I noticed the FPS problems as soon as the Season 12 launched and have been waiting for a fix, but Respawn hasn't delivered. How do I know that there is a CPU bottleneck you may ask, and the answer is that no matter the resolution I play with (720p, 900p, 1080p etc.) the FPS stays exactly the same. Even when playing with the native 1440p resolution, the GPU usage is 70-80% almost all the time which indicates that the CPU is the limiting factor. CPU usage at the same time is 60-70% which is very high.Before this season, my lowest FPS drops have been about 85fps (with RX 580) and average about 140ish, but nowadays it constantly drops close to 70fps and average is 120ish. (with RX 5700 XT)I don't know if this post will change anything at all, I just wanted to vent a bit. This is the first Season I have have completely stopped playing the game because of the performance issues.I hope Respawn will take a look at optimising the game more.

Please check your CPU temps, I found my CPU cooler had failed and I was being throttled at 100C. Fixed to cooler, fixed my problems.

Noticed that there was an update, went to try the FPS but it's absolutely horrible. Everytime you look at the center of the map the FPS drops to unplayable levels:https://streamable.com/2hb1w6CPU total usage was at about 60-70% almost at all times and maximum per thread usage 100%, pretty clear CPU bottleneck. I really hope Respawn looks at this

Hey, @CdrKEEB can you try a clean boot to see if any programs are messing with APEX and turn off any overlay programs, such as Discord or Nvidia experience. Can you add a Dxdiag so we can see what hardware and drivers you have? Let me know if this works or not for you. 🙂 /Atic

@EA_Atic Hi, here's the DxDiag. I'm currently running old BIOS version because the newest has some performance issues. I have also tried to run Apex with the newest BIOS but the performance is as poor as with the old one. I have also tried the clean boot but nothing changed.I asked my friend who has much better PC than me (Ryzen 9 3900x & RX 6800 XT) to test his FPS with the same resolution and settings in the exact same place in the map than I did. While I had about 100 fps, my friend had 120 fps, which is 20% higher than mine. His GPU is about 50% faster than mine, but is CPU is only about 20% faster. So he is also CPU bottlenecked like me, and it really looks like something happened with Season 12 patch and the game got much more CPU hungry.Thanks for trying to help but I think that this is caused by the Season 12 patch, and I have a feeling that the PS4 FPS issues is caused by the same CPU bottleneck. Something changed after the patch, and performance got worse on all platforms.

With the patch on the first March did you see any improvements? @CdrKEEB /Atic

Season 12 FPS problems are caused by increased CPU intensity. (CPU bottleneck)

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EA_Atic
DICE Team
4 years ago
Hey, @CdrKEEB can you try a clean boot to see if any programs are messing with APEX and turn off any overlay programs, such as Discord or Nvidia experience.

Can you add a Dxdiag so we can see what hardware and drivers you have?

Let me know if this works or not for you. 🙂

/Atic
CdrKEEB
4 years ago
@EA_Atic Hi, here's the DxDiag. I'm currently running old BIOS version because the newest has some performance issues. I have also tried to run Apex with the newest BIOS but the performance is as poor as with the old one. I have also tried the clean boot but nothing changed.

I asked my friend who has much better PC than me (Ryzen 9 3900x & RX 6800 XT) to test his FPS with the same resolution and settings in the exact same place in the map than I did. While I had about 100 fps, my friend had 120 fps, which is 20% higher than mine. His GPU is about 50% faster than mine, but is CPU is only about 20% faster. So he is also CPU bottlenecked like me, and it really looks like something happened with Season 12 patch and the game got much more CPU hungry.

Thanks for trying to help but I think that this is caused by the Season 12 patch, and I have a feeling that the PS4 FPS issues is caused by the same CPU bottleneck. Something changed after the patch, and performance got worse on all platforms.
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EA_Atic
DICE Team
4 years ago
With the patch on the first March did you see any improvements? @CdrKEEB

/Atic
Bolted_Fault
4 years ago
Please check your CPU temps, I found my CPU cooler had failed and I was being throttled at 100C. Fixed to cooler, fixed my problems.
CdrKEEB
4 years ago
@EA_Atic Nope, tried as soon as the patch came out but performance was exactly the same.
EA_Atic
DICE Team
4 years ago
@CdrKEEB I assume you check temps in the PC?

/Atic
CdrKEEB
4 years ago
@EA_Atic Yes, PC is working just fine and temps are good.
CdrKEEB
4 years ago
Noticed that there was an update, went to try the FPS but it's absolutely horrible. Everytime you look at the center of the map the FPS drops to unplayable levels:

https://streamable.com/2hb1w6

CPU total usage was at about 60-70% almost at all times and maximum per thread usage 100%, pretty clear CPU bottleneck. I really hope Respawn looks at this
PlainHaVoK
4 years ago
I'm having the exact same problem, noticed my game looking very jittery compared to any other season, used to mainly sit at the fps cap of 190 but now in lots of different areas it will drop, My GPU used to always be the bottleneck in apex, I've always used rivatuner and done loads of benchmarks in the past, and its always been GPU limited, but gotten decent fps, now some areas it drops to below 100 and I will check with rivatuner and my GPU will be sitting between 70% - 80% usage while the frames are down, so 100% sure that something is messed up badly with this season, performance is terrible and in anything hectic its sometimes impossible to play, disappointing to not be able to play a game that I've played since season 0.
SmallBarge
4 years ago
I can report the same issues on my RX 6600XT. No problems before I upgraded my GPU from an RTX 2070.
Frame rates drop from 150+ to as low as 35 when I look from the edge of the map towards the middle of the map.
I've read posts trying to explain this away as architecture differences and blaming it on DX11, but something feels very wrong.