Changing the priority mode of Apex

[YouTube-ImHavoc]

Okay, to give background on this topic, I've noticed recently that my game has been stuttering quite a bit. Instinctively, I went into Task Manager and tried setting the priority mode of Apex to normal instead of the current high mode. Unfortunately, it's stating that "Access is denied" even though I'm on an administrative account. What can I do? I've looked at other forums and it seems like people have the opposite problem, instead of trying to set the priority mode to normal they need to set it to high. I have no clue how to fix this and it seems that this "priority mode" shenanigans is what's causing Apex to do all this stuttering.

[Zeelmaekers]

Hey @YouTube-ImHavoc 

Changing the priority can be a real struggle if you did it incorrectly the first time.
The first thing you have to check is on what Priority Origin is running.

Als Origin games that get launched by the Origin launcher will take the priority of the origin Launcher.

If your Origin is running in normal Priority, you best check your launch commands.

If you see "-High" in your launch commands, remove it and then Apex Should run back on normal priority.

RegEdit Changes
If you went into reg edit when you followed a performance guide.
Please follow the steps below.

press the start key (windows key) and type here Regedit or Registry Editor.
Open this program and follow the path:

Find the folder: Hkey_Local_Machine then Software
When you are in Software locate to: Microsoft.

Here you will find Windows NT open this and locate to CurrentVersion

Here should be a folder: ImageFileExecutionOptions open this and you should find a folder r5apex.exe.
Click this open and click on the file indicating CPU priority.
Here change to number to 2 for normal priority.

If you more detailed steps you can find those here.
Zeel's troubleshooting guide. 
(scroll down till reduced performance, Apex Legends priority)

[Puki1225]

What if i cannot find r5apexe.ex on ImageFileExecutionOptions??

[Triark]

Create it . just look up youtube plenty of vids

[EA_Atic]

I'm closing this thread to stop it from being necroed.

If you have any issues with APEX, please make a new topic about your problems and what kind of steps you have tried to solve them.

/Atic