Just wanted to formally thank EA/Respawn for an unbeatable patch. 30meg.This little 30meg file took my 151FPS down to a now smooth 80FPS. Maybe Nvidia gave you a little something to sell there new range of cards?(Same with the new Nvidia driver, 151FPS drop to 80FPS, insane coincidence)Specs: 9900k I9, 16Gig ram, 1080Ti OCNow 80FPS? no words my friends, no words

Wanted to make sure this is not just a complaining thread so took a couple of days to make sure:wiped PC, reload all, loaded suggested drivers. The same thing, the game is broken for me.My question with all the respect: why an out of the blue optimizing patch? There was nothing wrong with the performance? I was locked at 151, probably close to 200 if not locked to monitor refresh. I now do 90 fps, this is not even real, cant be. An optimizing patch doing this?I have spent a fortune on this game over the last 18 months. (Welcome to check my account), only to find one day, a little 30meg "optimizing patch" to do this? Im sure it is natural to be a little bit more than just pissed. (Please go check how much money I have spent on this game, you'll be surprised)So now this patch is forced on me, can't roll back the patch, so what now? At least Nvidia drivers can be rolled back, or is this the deal? Sorry, I'm still very suspicious about this little "optimizing patch", does not make any sense.anyway

Hardware: EVGA 1080TIDriver: NVIDIA 456.55Problem: Micro stutters in movement and some textures not loading.To me this problem has to be something with the game as I have had no issues until 3-4 days ago (Tuesday 27th patch). I also have 3200 hours in the game so I can tell if this is a real problem or not 🙂NOTHING has changed on my system and this problem appeared around 3-4 days ago. My FPS is fine 120-165 (165Hz monitor) depending on where you are on the map, but this is normal. Latency is fine 20-30ms. But there are micro stutters in movement. You can clearly see the stutters running in a straight line in the firing range or map. The character "twitches" every couple seconds. If you have an heirloom you can see it even better. There is no positive effect with any of the below changes I have tried:1. Clear game/origin cache (https://help.ea.com/en-in/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games)2. Game repair3. Disable Windows "Full screen optimizations" on Origin and Apex executables4. Changed NVIDIA low latency mode from on --> ultra --> off5. Change monitor refresh from 165hz to 144hz6. Cap frames to 160 or 140 via origin advanced game options.7. Cap frames to 160 or 140 via Rivatuner.8. Tried NVIDIA drivers 457.099. Turned off NVIDIA Reflex via Origin advanced game options (+gfx_nvnUseLowLatency 0)

Hey @wongcung, That's definitely rough. Have you tried repairing Apex Legends in Origin to see if that makes any difference at all? If there's some kind of issue with the game files that might help. If you right-click on the game in your Origin Library you'll see a Repair option when the menu comes up. Let me know if that helps at all with the FPS. /Kent

Same here. 2 days ago game worked fine - around 190 fps stable,since yesterday i have drop fps to 90 with no reason.

@vF_fatal Hmm, I see. This might be related to an issue we've been tracking for a bit. When you have the chance can you try rolling back to NVIDIA Driver 452.06 to see if that makes any difference? We saw some reports that using that specific driver may help with the FPS drops some people have been seeing. Let me know if that helps in your case as well. Thanks! /Kent

Today's Patch. Optimizing the game.

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EA_Kent
Community Manager
5 years ago
Hey @wongcung,

That's definitely rough. Have you tried repairing Apex Legends in Origin to see if that makes any difference at all? If there's some kind of issue with the game files that might help. If you right-click on the game in your Origin Library you'll see a Repair option when the menu comes up. Let me know if that helps at all with the FPS.

/Kent
vF_fatal
5 years ago
Same here. 2 days ago game worked fine - around 190 fps stable,since yesterday i have drop fps to 90 with no reason.
EA_Kent
Community Manager
5 years ago
@vF_fatal

Hmm, I see. This might be related to an issue we've been tracking for a bit. When you have the chance can you try rolling back to NVIDIA Driver 452.06 to see if that makes any difference? We saw some reports that using that specific driver may help with the FPS drops some people have been seeing.

Let me know if that helps in your case as well. Thanks!

/Kent
vF_fatal
5 years ago
I tried yesterday and they did not solve the problem..but i will try again in 30mins on fresh windows. strange thing is.. the problem started 2days ago..and after 2 hours repaired itself..yesterday before i went to work everything was fine, after returning to home, problem returned.
CheapCheese
5 years ago
Same here.
Been this way since the Tuesday update. Tried everything suggested in the forums, rolled back the Nvidia Driver, reinstalled the game, but the issues persist.
Went from stable 144 to sub 60 at times.
What do we do?
acenin9
5 years ago
I also have the same issue with new recent frame drops after 2 days ago from 180+ down to 70-80 avg in fights and 130 fps tops........
CPU: i9 9900k
GPU: 2080ti
Every other game runs fine. I've repaired like 8 times, reinstalled the game, reinstalled drivers, took any OC off. Nothing is working.
vF_fatal
5 years ago
Okey so.. tested 446.14 / 452.06 / 456.71 / 456.98 and even 457.00(vulkan beta) still hugh fps drop. checked fire range map - working fine - full capped fps. i really dont know what should i do now..
CheapCheese
5 years ago
@acenin9 @wongcung
I finally found something that worked - turning off Nvidia Reflex:
Open the Origin Launcher.
Go to My Game Library.
Find Apex Legends and right-click the game.
Select Game Properties.
Click the Advanced Launch Options tab.
+gfx_nvnUseLowLatency 0 to disable NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency.
Let me know if it works for you!
acenin9
5 years ago
@CheapCheese did not work at all
acenin9
5 years ago
This is really grieving my RP and I'm going to fall out of pred because it's just too terrible to play.