Unplayable bad performance on system that mostly exceeds minimum specs.
My system (see DxDiag.txt attached) exceeds the minimum specs for everything except CPU (mine is a 3.3GHz quad-core instead of minimum 3.8GHz quad-core -- not a significant enough difference to justify the horrible performance).The performance is bad both in terms of raw FPS, but also in terms of extreme input lag / mouse lag.
I have done every performance optimisation imaginable:
- Play on 1600x900 instead of my native 1920x1080.
- Turn every setting to its absolute minimum.
- Run with the `-fullscreen` command-line flag.
- Disable the usual problematic settings in NVidia Settings.
- Set Apex to "High Performance" in Windows' "Graphics Settings".
The input lag, in particular, makes it impossible to play the game at a basic level. Input lag this severe is not justifiable for a difference of 0.5GHz between my CPU and the minimum spec, especially when the usual cause of input lag in games is from the GPU (which is faster than the minimum spec and has double the minimum VRAM).
My PC runs other games with similar graphical quality, render scene complexity, and notoriously bad optimisation, such as Rust, Arma 3, Fallout 4, Dishonored 2, and Hitman (2016) *much* better (both in terms of FPS and input lag) than Apex, even when rendering extremely complex scenes. I got quite poor performance in Destiny 2 and Titanfall 2 back when I was using a GTX 560Ti, but nowhere near as poor as Apex on my GTX 670.
If this wasn't a free game, I'd be demanding a refund. Instead, you've just wasted many days' worth of internet usage time I had to spend on the 40GB data (because the Origin installer hit bug after bug which prevented me from running the game in a not-fully-downloaded "Playable" state, as advertised). Please change your minimum specifications to reflect the extremely poor performance, or optimise the rendering to address the false advertising.
