Apex Legends Dev Tracker

Hey everyone, to those experiencing the freezes, can you try adding this line to your launch parameters "+watchdog_time_milliseconds 30000". Then once the game freezes please wait about 30 seconds, a prompt should show up saying "The game is not responding. Press Retry to wait or Cancel to quit the game.", we need you to hit cancel. This won't fix the problem but it should help us get some more information to get it fixed ASAP.

How to add command lines:

EA App:

From “My Collection”, click on the three dots in the upper right corner of the Apex Legends tile and select “View Properties”.

Add "+watchdog_time_milliseconds 30000" in the text box under “Advanced Launch Options”.

Click “Save” and launch the game normally.

Origin:

From “My Game Library”, right click Apex Legends -> Game Properties -> Advanced Launch Options

Add "+watchdog_time_milliseconds 30000" to Command line arguments

To be more specific, if you are using the DX12 beta for apex that was outlined here. If not, does using it have any effect? Also, is this specific issue (game freezing and needing to be force closed, often freezing again on reconnect) happening outside of PC to anyone?

Additional question:

For those experiencing the freezes, were you in the loadout menu when you got pulled into a game?

If you stay in the main lobby and play a few games, does that stop the freezing from occurring?

Can you please report the following if you've been encountering these freezes:
Your platform, your specs (if on PC) and if you're using DX11 or DX12 (if on PC).

For folks who are having the issue of crashing upon startup on DX12, please try the workaround mentioned here. If you still have the issue after this, please let us know what graphics card you're using!

Alternatively, you can launch the game in DX11, change "V-sync" in the Video settings to any mode, close the game, then open again in DX12 and that should solve the issue! If not, once again, please let us know your graphics card down below.

Did you just see this once or is it happening consistently?

Thank you for the note!!

In game, you should see UI text in bottom right corner of the lobby saying "DirectX 12 (Beta)".

In your task manager too, you should see that the game will be called r5apex_dx12.exe instead of r5apex.exe when you right-click Apex Legends and click "Properties" :)

A reminder that you won't be able to do this test until the new update launches tomorrow!

Hello legends! With Season 15, we are introducing an opt-in beta feature: support for DirectX 12 on PC.

We need your help to gather data and feedback for our initial DX12 implementation. You may not see a difference yet, but we wanted to get it in your hands to try as many different hardware, software and streaming configurations as we can before rolling out to the whole community.

Though this initial beta release may not have noticeable changes for most players, it's an important step that lays the groundwork for future improvements.

Without further ado, here’s some notes from our dev team on what you can expect!

What is DirectX 12

DirectX (DX) is the API we use to communicate between your computer’s main processor (the CPU) and its graphics processor (the GPU), which makes it a key part of the graphics rendering system. Apex Legends has been using DX11 since launch, and this new evolution to an updated ...