Apex Legends — Tips & Tricks
Practical Apex Legends tips that also keep your install stable and your saves safe.
Last updated 2026-09-25 · evergreen reference
The tips here are chosen because they prevent problems as well as improve play: options that avoid crashes, habits that protect saves, and settings that are worth changing before you ever need a fix.
Tips worth knowing
Each one changes something real in Apex Legends.
Use these launch options, one at a time
+fps_max 120 caps the frame rate and is the most broadly useful. -novid skips the intro video, -nojoy disables joystick enumeration, -high raises process priority. Test one at a time —- stacked commands copied from old guides can make things worse.
Cap slightly below your refresh rate
141 FPS on 144 Hz, 162 on 165 Hz, 237 on 240 Hz. If crashes continue, drop to 120, 100 or 60 to work out whether GPU load, heat or power draw is the trigger.
Fullscreen beats borderless here
Exclusive fullscreen gives Apex dedicated control of the display and is measurably more stable than borderless windowed on many systems.
Set Easy Anti-Cheat priority to low
Task Manager > Details > Easy Anti-Cheat > Set priority > Low. It sounds backwards, but it is one of the most-reported community fixes. You will need to redo it each launch.
Keep EA app, the game and the page file on the same drive
Let Windows manage the page file size. A mismatched or undersized page file is a recurring cause of mid-game exits that no graphics setting will fix.
Habits that save you later
Do these once and stop thinking about them.
Back up your saves
Before any reinstall, driver sweep or mod change, copy the save folder for Apex Legends. Cloud saves are convenient but they can also sync a corrupted file back onto your machine — knowing where the local copy lives is what actually protects you.
Write down what you changed
Launch options, config file edits and INI tweaks are easy to forget. A short note means you can undo a change six months later instead of reverse-engineering your own setup.
Benchmark one repeatable spot
Pick a demanding area in Apex Legends, load the same save and play for the same duration after each change. Judging performance by feel is how people conclude a real improvement did nothing.
Windows-level changes that apply everywhere
Not specific to this game, and worth doing once.
Disable fullscreen optimizations and fix DPI
Right-click the Apex Legends executable, open the Compatibility tab, tick Disable fullscreen optimizations, then open Change high DPI settings and set the scaling override to Application. This resolves black screens, low-resolution output and alt-tab freezes across a large number of Unreal Engine 3 and older DirectX 11 titles.
Turn off Game Bar, Game Mode and background recording
All three sit in Settings > Gaming. They cost RAM and GPU resources and interfere with fullscreen rendering. Some newer titles do benefit from Game Mode, so test rather than assuming — but start with it off.
Use a high-performance power plan and watch thermals
Balanced and silent profiles let the CPU and GPU downclock under load. Select High or Ultimate Performance, and monitor temperatures — crashes that appear ten minutes in rather than at launch are very often thermal rather than software.
Keep the page file system-managed
Several engines rely on virtual memory even with ample RAM, and disabling the page file is a recurring cause of "out of memory" errors on machines with 32 GB installed. Leave Windows in control of it.
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