Strange Connection Issues
I've been having a large issue trying to play apex on my pc as of late. Every single time I land from dropship at the beginning of the game, I get hit with a massive lag spike that lasts minimum a minute and a half. The primary icon that shows up during this time is the packet loss symbol, but sometimes all of the other symbols will show up too. It's characterized by the landing animation lagging and getting delayed during the transition between dropping and first person, all other players being locked in place for a second or two before teleporting to where they actually are, item pickups taking a few seconds to actually register, and aim animations becoming janky and slow. It makes fighting other players near impossible. This happens primarily at the start of the game, but sometimes it will occur again in the middle or towards the end of the game. Most of the time though, if I can survive the first lag spike, I can play perfectly fine for the rest of the game.
One of the weirdest parts about this though is that it is exclusive to this specific pc, and exclusive to this game. None of my other multiplayer games have this sort of lag spike, and playing the game on my laptop results in the game running perfectly fine. Even stranger is that everything indicates that there is no connection issues at all prior to actually going in game. Apex servers show low ping and no packet loss, despite it being almost the opposite once I actually try to play a match. I've been trying to fix this issue for several days now, and it's starting to be incredibly frustrating to try and solve. And before one of the support guys goes and tells me to do the EA help connection troubleshooting, I've already done all of those things, save for messing with the router/port forwarding, since the router is not mine and I am not allowed to mess with it. But this probably isn't the source of the issue anyways due to the game running fine on my laptop, which is connected to the same router. I'll throw in the UOTrace that I did as well, but everything seems normal to me for that, no issues.
I really want to be able to have fun playing this game on my pc, but these connection issues are making it incredibly difficult. If anyone knows what this problem is and how to go about fixing it, that help would be much appreciated.
