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5 years ago
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Visual Glitches and Stuttering in game

At the start of Season 7 Apex was running smoothly.  Over the course of the last 2 to 3 weeks no matter what settings components or hardware I use to play apex legends I get Visual glitches and Stuttering in game/screen tearing (however this doesn't necessarily correlate with in game frame drop). My VRAM, CPU, and RAM usage never play max out during game play

My GPU depending on the video settings and/or the number of  Bangalore and Gibraltar ults in my line of sight will on occasion max out.

CPU: Intel Core i9-9900k (8 core) 3.6GHz Processor

GPU: RTX 3070

Windows 10 64 Bit

I have gone ahead and attached a DxDiag

Here are things I tried:

Repairing game files

Uninstalling and then Reinstalling Apex

Capping the frames at the refresh rate.

Uncapping the frames.

Capping the frames slightly lower then the refresh rate.

Capping the Frames significantly lower then the refresh rate.

Running APEX with the in game video settings ranging from the highest to the lowest and everything in between.

Vsync on and off within game

Gsync on and off within the NVIDIA control panel

Messing around with the 3D settings in the NVIDIA Control panel

Updating NVIDIA drivers

Rolling back NVIDIA Drivers

Swapping in an RTX 2060 Super GPU

Playing using this monitor: Acre XB272 240hz 1080p

Playing using this monitor: Dell S2716Dg 144 hz 1440p

There are more things I tried but cannot think of at the time of this post.

My ability to troubleshoot has reached a limit and I hope someone has an answer so I can play Apex Legends without animations skipping or weird visual input delays. 

  • @CREAM__f1 

    Your graficcard runs at x16 3.0? You can check that in windows with GPU-Z

    Lets try a config change: 

    • navigate to C:\Users\*username*\Saved Games\Respawn\Apex\local
    • copy the videoconfig.txt to your desktop (so that you have backed up your settings and can restore them later if necessary)
    • open the videoconfig.txt in C:\Users\*username*\Saved Games\Respawn\Apex\local 
    • delete all
    • now copy and past this:
    Spoiler
    "VideoConfig"
    {
    "setting.cl_gib_allow" "0"
    "setting.cl_particle_fallback_base" "-999999"
    "setting.cl_particle_fallback_multiplier" "-999999"
    "setting.cl_ragdoll_maxcount" "0"
    "setting.cl_ragdoll_self_collision" "0"
    "setting.mat_forceaniso" "0"
    "setting.mat_mip_linear" "0"
    "setting.stream_memory" "0"
    "setting.mat_picmip" "4"
    "setting.particle_cpu_level" "0"
    "setting.r_createmodeldecals" "0"
    "setting.r_decals" "0"
    "setting.r_lod_switch_scale" "0.35"
    "setting.shadow_enable" "0"
    "setting.shadow_depth_dimen_min" "0"
    "setting.shadow_depth_upres_factor_max" "0"
    "setting.shadow_maxdynamic" "0"
    "setting.ssao_enabled" "0"
    "setting.ssao_downsample" "3"
    "setting.dvs_enable" "0"
    "setting.dvs_gpuframetime_min" "4167"
    "setting.dvs_gpuframetime_max" "4084"
    "setting.defaultres" "1920"
    "setting.defaultresheight" "1080"
    "setting.fullscreen" "1"
    "setting.nowindowborder" "0"
    "setting.volumetric_lighting" "0"
    "setting.mat_vsync_mode" "0"
    "setting.mat_backbuffer_count" "0"
    "setting.mat_antialias_mode" "0"
    "setting.csm_enabled" "0"
    "setting.csm_coverage" "0"
    "setting.csm_cascade_res" "512"
    "setting.fadeDistScale" "1.000000"
    "setting.dvs_supersample_enable" "0"
    "setting.gamma" "1.000000"
    "setting.configversion" "7"
    "setting.modeldecals_forceAllowed" "-1"
    }
    • save the videoconfig.txt
    • right click on it, read only

    Play apex, and tell me if it's better.

24 Replies

  • i have an issue when im game to full screen native then it starting shuttering but i saw my FPS for confirmation but FPS is still same as 144 then i put it into Borderless Window then its working good dont what happened please Help if anyone know

  • @Sick1Click   I know this post is very old at this part a number of months back I completely solved my issues.  Both the RTX 2060 i had was going bad and the Brand new RTX 3070 I got was faulty.  I sent the GPU (3070) to the manufacturer and they tested it and sent me a new one.  All issues resolved.  I still play on your recommended VideoConfig settings for better performance.  it was a hardware issue like you thought. Thanks again. 

  • DOUGIEBE3F's avatar
    DOUGIEBE3F
    4 years ago

    I created a profile here simply to say thank you for this. I could not fix this for the life of me and tried literally everything. Apex is back up and running for me, thank you so much...

  • TaskForce7374's avatar
    TaskForce7374
    Newcomer
    25 days ago

    Thank you so very much, guys this actually works, as of July 2025,
    I had visual bugs, glitches, diamonds shaped artifacts, character shifting like a million times in the lobby glitching out

    , took like 3 minutes and my apex was fixed,
    sometimes it takes ages to find fixes on Google and forums, and sometimes good guys like this fella come along.

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