Now crashes every game

[hawkeyepeww]

Product: Apex Legends
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
AMD or Nvidia Model Number AMD RX480
Enter RAM memory size in GB 4
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? Hawkeye-Peww
Please provide your squad mates' gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name if possible. -
Which Legend were you playing (if applicable)? different legends
Which Legends were your squad mates using (if applicable)? -
Where did the issue occur? In a match
Which part of the map or menu were you in? If you don't remember the exact name, please describe the area or what you were trying to do in the menu. everywhere
What were you doing when the issue occurred? E.g. respawning a squad mate at a beacon, using an ability, a squad mate left the game. Jump out plane, other crash was sliding down a hill
Did your squad mates also experience the issue? No
How many matches had you played in a row before the issue occurred? 0
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) 17-3-2019 12:07:30
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
How severe is your issue? Major impacts to gameplay
What happens when the bug occurs? Crash to desktop, no message
What should be happening instead? playing the game
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? i really don't know

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I play every day and most of the time 1 have 1 crash in the hour, but now constantly. I suspect it is a serverside thing? (no updates, no changes on client) Maybe the anticheat?

I think it is very strange that the developpers have not got a good error reporting in place, because the windows errorlog has very litle details.

My feeling: I am about to uninstall this * piece of ill programmed junk....

See screenshot of windows log for times of 2 crashes (2 games)

[LoveyGoo]

having the same problem tbh.. got the same pc stats but i got 8bg ram
i even got a blue screen lol

[Anonymous]

Can confirm, the game is pretty much unplayable right now.

I've experienced crashes at start, in the lobby and during gameplay. (twice with only two squads left, thanks Kanye, very cool!)

I've tried everything, including but not limited to:

• Reinstalling Apex Legends
• Reinstalling Origin
• Reinstalling VC++ Redistributable (including only installing the bundled VCR packages)
• Reinstalling/rolling back/updating graphics drivers (nuking them with DDU before every install)
• Running Origin/Apex Legends/EAC as Administrator
• Running Origin/Apex Legends/EAC in Compatibility Mode
• Running the EAC service as Administrator/an interactive service
• Using countless (useless) startup parameters I've found online
• Using Borderless Fullscreen
• Changing a plethora of Graphics Settings

The "crash" often doesn't show up in Event Viewer, and when it does, it exits at 0x0, with code 0x0.

This makes me believe that it might have to do with EAC force closing Apex Legends for whatever reason?

(And hiding the mess it makes afterwards?)

Additional Information

Product: Apex Legends
Platform: PC, Windows 10 Home 64-bit (1809, OS Build 17763.379)
Graphics Card: MSI Radeon RX480 Gaming X 8G (stock clock, +50% power allowance)
Processor: Intel i5-2500K (stock clock)
Memory: Generic OEM, 8GB DDR3-1333
Legends: Any
Where issue: Everywhere, lobby, game, post-game screen, etc.
Which part of map: Any part, early game crashes usually happen right on plane exit or right at touchdown
What doing: Attempting to play the game
Squad mates also: Seems to be limited to platforms with slightly older CPUs
How many matches before: Usually 1 at most
When: 17-Mar-2019 19:25
How often: 100%
Severity: Major, game is unplayable
What happens: Game hang, audio buffer usually finishes and then exits to desktop, sometimes straight exit to desktop

How to reproduce?

Issue seems to happen most often with Sandy Bridge and older CPUs, paired with a Polaris GPU.

Presence of hyper-threading might also play a role.

EDIT:

Looking back at older changelogs I found patch notes along the lines of "increased I/O time-out".

The fact that I have a Barracuda Green installed as a secondary drive might hint as to why it appears as if EAC is force closing Apex Legends.

The drive often spins up in the middle of game too, with no apparent cause. (Possibly EAC sanity checking?)

[TarNxD]

I'm unfortunately experiencing the same problem, at first I played it would not have happened to me at all, but now lately it happens every game, about every 5 minutes. Impossible to play at all.
I tried to do guides that fix the problem, delete the game and reinstall and more and more ... but nothing helps.