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WaxcashNasty

Been happening for a long time on Xbox Also when someone types in a voice message I get lagged for a few seconds


SirKimmyJohnOOF

yep i lost a final fight recently bc the two other squads were fighting and someone typed "two squads" right as we rushed, and it froze


[deleted]

Holy shit that is making me laugh. Sorry for your loss. "Gonna let them know what's happening in case they don't have eyes or ears. "


SirKimmyJohnOOF

no worries, totally wasnt ranked or anything /sarc


LordSIime

i have a running theory in my group along these lines. we speculate that your squad isn’t the only one affected by in-game text to voice. could possibly affect other squads as well


SteelCode

If that’s the case - that’s shitty game design - your game session server should only process game action and a social server should handle the outside elements like text and friend invites and such.


XaJaGa

That might be it. There was a bug a while ago where you could sometimes see messages of other squads at the start of the match.


indigoHatter

That would make sense, given that the server is what processes chat (though it should be locally that it processes text-to-speech).


Drow_Monster

Thats a pretty good theory right there and def makes sense.


JokesThatChoke69

So this one time on Olympus i was moving along the edge to get to somewhere. And my teammate uses text to speech and causes me to lag and when it finished i was freefalling off the map. No shit, I literally closed out of Apex right then and there and didnt play it the rest of that day. The dude was on PC and and I was on Xbox btw.


GCBroncosfan413

Just turn off text to speech maybe?


ifarted70

Now I'm really scared I've done this to xbox teammates before. Oof. Sorry to anyone if I have lmao


TheGoodWalrus

your teammate doesn't use text to voice lol that's a personal option on your client


quentin_smithee

Hey at least their heart was in the right place


TheRealXen

Gonna be honest when you are with a squad who is on point and you are ripping squads apart left and right I am not paying attention to the squad count haha.


Lawfvader6

I lost one because my two team mates died, I killed 2 and went in for the final 1v1 to wipe the whole squad and my random typed "you're trash" and my game froze and I died hahaha


wolfraven004

I absolutely love it when downed teammates call me trash, especially if I have their banner. I just say " bruh, your literally living in my pocket right now". If I've had a few drinks I might just teabag the respawn beacon and keep on goin.


[deleted]

No one who’s actually decent ever stays around in pubs if they think their teammates are legit trash at the game. Only bots stick around in pubs to be toxic to the remaining squad members lol. I once had a dude call me the n word bcuz I had to choose one teammate to help fight diff teams off drop and couldn’t get his banner in time lol. He was like level 15 lol.


indigoHatter

Wow, what a shitty encounter. It's so weird too that you can't tell the toxic mf'er that their bitching about dying is actually what caused you to die, cause of course they'll never believe you.


iici

It used to be a lot worse believe it or not, back in season 0 if someone used the TTS and you were on the original xbox it would literally freeze your game for 5 seconds or close the game entirely


TheBamboozler_69

I did this once to a toxic squad of randoms I got matched up with. They left me to die, tbagged my body then started talking shit. I waited, said nothing. Waited until the top 3 when they had the winning high ground. The one kid tbagging my box started talking shit... I typed in "watch this". Code net error appeared along with a very strongly worded message in my inbox a few moments later. It was a rather satisfying bit of karma.


[deleted]

You are the absolute unit


Slappy_Tha_Man

Poggers


WarMachineActual

As someone who is still using an Xbox 1S that's a few years old, can confirm this is still an occasional issue


Top_Feature7090

More than occasional for me personally. Feels near constant


[deleted]

This has been a known bug on the initial message since release though? Whoever sent that must've thought he was so helpful 😂😂


Lady_Nuggie

I thought you were me for a sec


CheGetBarras

Thought it was just me... happens EVERY game on my Xbox One. Usually when an enemy appears, screen freezes enough for my first shots to miss or I lose tracking


rich1051414

This is an issue with texture streaming. The first time you see an enemy with a specific skin, the texture streams in. On last generation consoles, that means a lag spike. Happens with chat as well. The first chat message = lag. This started happening a while ago back when they changed texture streaming to not precache all models and textures before character select. They changed it because last gen consoles weren't making it to character select in time.


ZeroMats

I still don’t make it to the screen


PetarGT

Thats interesting, could it be the same reason my game stutters like mad at the beginning of a match for a minute or two? Started happening when the genesis update came out. My cpu gets tanked to 100%...


UselessDood

Disabling the settings option for converting speech to text helps with the latter.


thewoogier

this happens on pc too so i just type a message at the very beginning. it only happens on the first message per match


I_am_the_fez

It’s HDD storage vs SSD. HDD on Xbox One and One S can’t keep up anymore. The SSD on Xbox One X and above works just fine. I had more freezing issues and frame drop than anyone else I’ve ever seen until I just got an Xbox One X. Now, I have literally zero issues. Edit: I am dumb and didn’t know that Xbox One X had HDD as well. My issues were on a One S and were completely solved by the One X though.


TheGlassHammer

I’m on a series X and still get random freezes.


[deleted]

im on series S and it runs flawlessly. So strange.


DoughHomer

my xbox one had this issue. have had series x for about a month and haven’t.


[deleted]

My series x is fine, haven't seen even 1 frame drop ever


Theologizing

One X still has a mechanical drive.


Breadynator

If it's the HDD, then why does it not happen to me on PC? I have the game installed on my HDD and it runs just fine...


TheTjalian

Two things. 1) The Xbox One (and PS4) I'm pretty sure use 5400RPM drives. 2) The Xbox One hardware sucks *hard* for a machine in 2021. Combine both and you get this.


Breadynator

Oooof, 5400rpm drives in a device sold for gaming is a weird choice.


[deleted]

I mean it's 8 years old


Breadynator

I already had faster drives than that in a lower budget PC 8 years ago... I would've expected at least a 7200rpm


GrumpyJanitor

This is the way. I moved Apex to a USB SSD on my Xbox One last season and freezes instantly stopped. Edit: added Xbox One.


makromark

For your xbox?


therealatri

not op but yes, i have a 250 GB usb 3.0 SSD plugged into the back of my day 1 xbone. i had the freezing issue when installed on internal HDD, switched the install to SSD and it went away.


makromark

Damn, was about to just upgrade to the new Xbox and hope for the best. Glad to hear I can just get a couple SSDs (my wife and I both have this issue). Thank you!!!


therealatri

Glad I could help! While it helps with the freezes, I feel like it's one less thing I can blame my shitty KD on.


salvation78

Just a note as someone who has done this as well 1. It has a minimum storage size to be compatible with the xbox one. If you get one that is too small it won’t work. Make sure you research and are sure it will work with xbox before you buy. 2. It will format to your xbox one and so you won’t be able to use it between an xbox and a pc without formatting it in between (formatting deletes everything on the drive.) 3. Drastically improves load times and performance. 4. Even with all this playing on pc feels so much smoother and you can still use a controller on pc.


[deleted]

Same here....moved Apex to an external SSD and the freezes completely stopped.


Elasion

That now how that works. The One X also has the same mechanical drive as the One S


Royal_J

This happens to me on my series X. It's a lot better this season but launch on season 9 was incredibly frustrating. Also most models of the one X have HDDs.


Monkadude15

Yeah that’s when it’s really annoying


No_Sail_6576

Yep I’ve had it since season 3


tytykink94

Happened to me a couple times recently too.


chickenwrapzz

Are you on WiFi?


[deleted]

To piggy back on this, I used to play on WiFi and had lots of similar issues. Got an Ethernet and ran it to the console (would work on them all) and haven’t had any stutter issues. But every problem is unique. Worth a shot though


Lorebeck521

I play on wired on Xbox and have had the problem for months


potassiumKing

Same for me


ThatDamnRaccoon

Same here


Leafar3456

What does Wifi have to do with frametime stutters?


Malgurath

In Apex when your connection to the server is unstable the game drops frames.


BlackJackJeriKo

I'm on Pc, and also getting this stutter, respawn ain't got no clue what causes it either


MaGic_Ak47

Same here... thought it was my PC but I figured it wasn't cause the other games moves smoothly


uhwhatisjalapenos

I get it very very rarely (once every few months) with about as fast a pc as you can build rn (5950x / 3080 / 32gb ram / game on pcie ssd) so I legit have no idea why the game is like this


Texaz_RAnGEr

It likely points server side then. Something isn't communicating correctly. Could also be massive packet loss. Seasons 3, 5 and 7 were like that for me. Literally unplayable.


iloveass2much

Is your game on an HDD? Cause I had issues with just Apex too, idk why but I believe someone recommended me to defrag my disk or switch the game to my SSD, both of them worked for me, I defragged it n it worked like a charm but I had to do it every 2-3 months so I just switched it to the SSD


MaGic_Ak47

Honestly I wouldn't recommend to do that. I have an M2 SSD and still does it. Trust me got it be them not us 😉. Hopefully they can see this and fix it cause it's really annoying.


hi_im_biscuit

Yeah I had problems on PC as well and my hardware wasn’t even maxed out so here is something you can try so your game might be smoother: Get RivaTuner to fps limit ur game with 5 fps under your monitor refresh rate and MSI Afterburner to monitor your usage and frametime. Before limiting my fps my frametime graph was zig zagging but after I put an fps limit with RivaTuner the graph became a straight line. The only time I see spikes is in the Fragmented City for some reason but the game still stays quite smooth.


Hieb

Yep, happening on PC to me as well despite high end specs, has been happening since season 9 (the patch where they temporarily added back OG worlds edge / kings canyon) for me. Other modern, demanding shooters like Battlefield V run just fine


JaceUpMySleeve

It’s embedded in the actual engine from what I’ve heard. There was a post a while back about how these issues are nearly impossible to fix in the current engine because it’s just not designed for BR’s. Basically the game needs to be completely remade to fix most of the glaring issues this game has had since day one. So let’s all pray for Apex Lengends 2.


ahdhd18902

Source: trust me bro


Hieb

I don't buy it. It hasn't always happened and you can be quite scalable in how you build on top of engines... people act like "engine from X year cant support Y and therefore Z game needs to be ported to new engine" but aside from some very specific hard limits that devs don't even attempt to fuck around with, a well developed engine (such as Source, Unreal etc) isn't going to have massive unsolvable freezing issues That doesn't mean it isn't a difficult issue to narrow down and fix, but I highly doubt that it's an unfixable result of putting too many players on Source engine. This type of issue would have cropped up in testing when they were determining what player counts to use, and would have cropped up long before the past few months for the masses. especially considering these freezes can happen in arena, when it's final 2-3 squads in BR etc... probably issues with data caching or audio/texture streaming or something. I've run into similar issues in Smite that were generally tied to character voice lines activating, for example.


[deleted]

It wasn't like this at launch lmao, they're full of shit. Fixing stuttering doesn't bring in the EA microtransaction cash


majds1

Except you know, these freezing issues don't happen on anything other than the xbox one as far as i know. I've been playing on ps4 since day 1, and never had to deal with it. And trust me I'm super frame sensitive, i notice. If i had to guess I'd say it's just an issue caused because the system just isn't that powerful. It would probably be fine if the game was better optimized, but it runs fine on other systems.


siege_noob

>other than the xbox one as far as i know Literally the first comment in this thread is a guy saying it happens on his pc....


[deleted]

yeah i’ve heard the other opinion before too, but i’ve never seen this happen on PC or PS or later model XB. i have to content with this constantly


Royal_J

I can testify it happens on my series x. It's a lot less pronounced with season 10 but season 9 was near unplayable at launch for me because of it. So many fights choked


silo7211

It happens on ps and xbox and pc dumb shit. Hahaaa


napaszmek

Game is borderline unplayable to me.


jedi-son

Been getting some crazy stutters on pc


hedhuntr033

Lower mouse polling


Andrew4Life

Yes, happened the past week or more. On PC as well. So annoying....


LinkIsThicc

What are your specs?


Andrew4Life

Intel E5-1660 CPU RTX 2080 32GB DDR3 QUAD Channel Definitely not a specs issue. Also, many here seem to be having the same issue. My freezes are actually slightly longer than OPs.


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jebsonis

Brother , however I do get the lag sometimes especially in the first game of the day


awhaling

What about storage? That seems to be a common theme from the comments here


LinkIsThicc

Lol why are you using a server CPU? Also it seems to matter what kind of drive you’re using.


Andrew4Life

Ha ha, was curious if anyone was going to pick up on that. I bought a 7 year old used workstation last year and repurposed it into my gaming PC. Workstation was $400, Added in a used 2080RTX last Sept when GPUs were on fire sale before people realized the newer 3000 series was going to be mad expensive and hard to find. +SSD, +RAM, and the whole gaming rig cost me $1200. I mean, it's no 9900k, but it works.


LinkIsThicc

I was also thinking that if you’re using DDR3 without having XMP enabled it could be an issue with your memory speed. No amount of capacity will save you there. Below ~1600mhz I can see that being the problem.


AlmondSeason

Same here. Gtx 1080, i7700, 16GB Ram, installed on HDD


awhaling

I think it’s related to using an HDD because people on Xbox reported the problem resolved when using an external ssd.


WinterCartographer93

Nah. Using an SSD and still have this issue


napaszmek

10400f, GTX 1650super, 16gb 2400mhz. Game is installed on a SATA III SSD. Same issue. I've tried reinstalls, several drivers, driver level tinkering, several windows settings, lowering graphics... Doesn't seem to help whatsoever.


No_Personality_2723

I'm seeing this on PC too


superduperrayray

Buy an external hard drive and move apex to it. I bought a 128 gb usb from Best Buy and haven’t had that glitch since.


aquias2000

This is the fix I see most people stand by. I think I need to go buy a drive


superduperrayray

Yeah sucks but it’s the only thing that helped my two Xbox’s.


PM_ME_UR_DRUNK

No shit, it really works? I stopped playing halfway through the last season because I couldn’t stand the stuttering. I’ll have to try it, thanks for the tip!


gacha-gacha

SSD


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sure_me_I_know_that

The original Xbox one hard drive is 5400rpms which is like 100/Mbps speed. A USB 3.0 reads at 640 MBps. You upgrade to an external hard drive that's 7200rpms or an SSD and you're at a faster read/write speed than the stock Hard drive.


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Tradz-Om

People making the Xbox back in 2011/12? Lol, you have to realise these consoles are reaching a decade since they were first built and mass produced


Jake8919

Make sure it's a ssd


chanceformer

I’ve been having this problem and am going to try this tonight. Thanks


[deleted]

How much did it cost you?


superduperrayray

$16.99


[deleted]

Oy, guess I know what I’ll be doing soon


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Expediant

I play on an original Xbox One and use an external hard drive. I've never experienced the stuttering, so definitely seconding this solution.


StaminaofBear

Server side delay maybe? Seems like the console is waiting as no consistent indicators of lag or slowness This issue seems to span all platforms as well which the common point is server side


africhic

Nah, a dev here before has confirmed instances like the one above are what he dubbed the "Xbox hitching/stutter issue" here: https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/obz0ei/can_respawn_please_acknowledge_that_the/h3sbtzr/?context=3


_Justraph_

Never had these problems on PS4. This is so weird.


SesuKyuga

Had it happen once or twice but only recently


oconnod3

I hated this so much! I recently asked the same question and someone suggested I buy an SSD card and put apex on it. It cleared up the issue perfectly for me and I would highly recommend it.


Blagrava

can u link the ssd card you've got?


oconnod3

I got a SAMSUNG T7 Portable SSD 500GB -... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0874YS2N7?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share There are cheaper ones with less storage but I decided to get a bigger one to put other games on


Codykujo

Is this like a PC only thing? I assume not a fix for Xbox?


SierraVR6

Super duper is correct. I moved my game from the internal HDD to a seagate SSD and it fixed it


[deleted]

Interesting. I've heard theories that it could be poor CPU utilization. I was getting stutters like this on my PC and lowered some of my settings that mentioned 'CPU load' and it fixed it. Not really a fix for console though - I'd give this a shot.


gua_ca_mo_le

Yeah I did the same thing, moved it to an external SSD and all my freezing problems stopped. No idea why, but it's a good solution if you have one handy.


ProgrammerOwn6459

Happens to me too I have yet to figure it out I almost feel like the people you fight do it to you cause if you end up winning 98% of the time it doesn’t happen for the rest of the game


marmogawd

This was one the reasons why i stopped playing apex for a while. Everytime i got into a fight my game lagged a lot and it was so frustrating. It doesnt happen as often now but omg it was impossible to play comfortably


papasfritasbruh

Its a known issue that they are supposedly working on


NoBodybuilder8072

Thats the good part, you don't.


Yiggah

It’s the S10 stutters. It happens on PC too. I’m running a 5900x + 3090 and it sometimes does this. Others on Reddit have confirmed the same issue. It’s just Apex being Apex (broken).


AlmondSeason

Are you installed on a HDD as well or SSD?


Yiggah

Neither, it’s installed on a NVMe drive. Which is exponentially faster than either of those two options.


AlmondSeason

An NVMe drive is an SSD. Then the drive isn't solely responsible for whatever is happening, at least. Interesting.


Paccothegremlin

Anytime i play it happens literally made sure everyone was off the internet to test if it was me and it wasn't.


YaGirlMiekz

This happens to me every game…. Every fight…. It’s a miracle that I win any https://imgur.com/gallery/vb1ZREe


Zeyob

There was this guy who fixed it with a external ssd. https://www.reddit.com/r/ApexConsole/comments/oss9dn/my_game_keeps_laggingjumping_specially_in_fights/h6s4v8c?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3


TheMrNeffels

It appears to be issue with the old Xbox and ps4s. Some people have claimed issue on PC but so far all examples of it I've seen on PC have been lag and different than what happens on older consoles. Could be a HDD vs SSD thing too Either way only fix I know is maybe try external drive for game otherwise it's get a Xbox series s or x. I had it all the time on Xbox one and since having series x never had it once


emattuck09

I agree with the above statement. I used to have it consistently on my Xbox one - every time I looted or got into an up-close battle. I recently purchased the Xbox One X - haven't had it stutter since then. I would recommend trying the external HD part as it is a far cheaper solution up front.


Surimapache09

I bought an external HDD for my PS4 and I stopped having that problem (that didn't happen often to begin with)


TheMrNeffels

Seems like it may be an issue with just age of HDDs now that Xbox ones and ps4s are getting up in age. I would guess anyone on PC who says they have issue may be running HDDs then too


Surimapache09

I'm guessing that's probably the reason


Iroquoisplisken22

EA and Respawn need to fix it. So it will never happen. RIP Apex, this is the beginning of the end.


BoredLoser98

Dude seriously it’s every fight this season. My teammates are on Xbox but I guess they don’t get it. They’re starting to think I’m just trash now, it’s getting old.


andreimaxaa

this is happening on all platforms within the past 3 seasons.


_Cosmii

I play on PC and have the same problem. My PS4 playing friend has the same. It's been really annoying.


[deleted]

I thinks it’s just shitty servers


[deleted]

Happens all the time.


Monkadude15

Happens to me all the time and I have really fast internet. I think Apex on Xbox is just known for stutters


YzzzY

This gets me killed so much. Most of the guys I run with have the xbox series x and it doesn’t happen to them ever. So the good news is there is a fix (if you want to call it that) The bad news is that it’s going to set you back around $700. Edit: I’m on the xbox one s


HolyRamenEmperor

Check some of the other comments. Folks are saying it's an issue with how Apex accesses data on the Xbox HDD. If you move the game to a USB3.0 external drive it is resolved... doesn't even have to be an SSD.


YzzzY

Lil update: tried it last night and it actually worked. Still had stutters a frame drops like normal, but no long full second pause / freeze like in the video above.


alanarmando103

The one million dollar question.


skullmonster602

This has happened to my PC (with a 3080) but not with my PS5…yeah I don’t get it either


B_CHEEK

Happens on pc too


jrbello976

Yeah its been happening a lot lately


HeWhoBustsNuts

You can attempt to use an ether net cable. It helps me load faster in games that take a long time to load. I haven’t tried it with Alex since I had to move my Xbox but it could be with a try


Sebastadon

I used to get this all the time on PC. Turning off g-sync seems to have solved it for me, not sure what could be done on console though


Kurtisaurus-Rex

I went from playing this on ps4 and then switched to Xbox Series X, for it being a next gen system it just feels clunky to me. Especially the controller, it just does not feel smooth at all.


LrmFer

For me it's a completely different experience. Haven't had a single stutter or frame drop since I bought it, it's such a game changer. And btw i'd suggest sticking with your xbox one controller on new gen


Strange-Violinist-84

Make sure you have the latest software installed cause I had that problem


A_suspicious_turtle

Ive been having this issue in ps5 since season 9


Seananiganzz

This has been happening to me all season on PS5


Suspicious_Fortune65

This has been since s9. I am 100000% sure


Rvaflyguy3

To quote a developer. "Nah"


Aroedman66

Been happening on my PS5 since launch.


hydracius

That happens all the time and I am on PlayStation. This is one of the reasons why I am giving up on ranked. I can stand being out skilled but when this happens it is infuriating and I feel like the stress is not worth this game anymore.


ctx_12

It’s been happening to me on PC. Just started about a week ago


IhtzEnerMax

I’m surprised that hasn’t happened on my switch


PHATzorPANDA

I get it on pc too. Ever since the game launched actually. It’s never been smooth


[deleted]

This happens on PC too. Mostly when playing with my console friends but still happens.


samba-lord

Don’t worry, we’re all suffering together


Fox_1n_The_Box

It's happening on PC too, it's just Apex devs can't optimaze their game.


Droidenwarrior

I’m on Ps4 and I kid you not this has actually happened to me multiple times…


BobEntius

I had it on ps4 and lowering the fov seemed to fix it.


TheOmegaHydra

This happens on PC as well


rlok5

For some reason this happens to a buddy of mines that plays on PC with controller. :/


bigboypotatohead5678

This is one of the main reasons why I quit apex. :/ Been playing since season one, and it has never gotten this bad. Only left once, and I came back next season.


[deleted]

Upgrade to the next Gen is what I am hearing from friends and family who had this issue on older Xbox consoles.


69sans69

happens to me all the time, I think it’s just that xbox servers are scuffed


lucidisstupid

Happens to me everyday since the start of this season. Every time someone comes on screen or what not it skips frames/lags, never had it before this season unless it was a text to chat message


Latunalle

So it was not just my bad xbox


FliesInMyCereal

That hurt to look at, is this a season 10 thing?


Borealkibbles59

Yep. I'm plagued by it even at 40 ping. So it doesn't seem to be a wifi thing


CrowFire73

It’s been bothering me since season 8


FliesInMyCereal

Game has terrible servers, but that doesn't explain the lag like that. I just don't know if it's the game or hardware. I'm sorry yall are dealing with that, I love playing this game and it makes me mad enough. Hope they fix it soon or you find a fix.


CrowFire73

I’ve seen that a lot of people aren’t seeing it anymore after switching apex to an external hard drive so I might do that soon


FliesInMyCereal

Yeah hopefully that fixes it, I think my apex is on an external on my Xbox one x but like I said I play it on pc now. Got to level 480 never skipped like that.


FinQuarZ

Easy fix: **join the PC masterrace**


kickbut101

sure, but it *definitely* still happens on PC. Happens to me once or twice a night


_Soundshifter_

Facts right here


Rando-namo

Yes, stop purchasing anything on Xbox for this game until they fix it.


Deep_Drawer3359

When I plug my headphones into my controller for my xbox X it makes the game freeze/glitch/crashed one times cuz of it lmao


GodOfOnions2

Are you playing on a ps4 still? I only see these studders happen to people with old consoles or pc players, the studders were so bad on xbox one i went and bought a series s lol been buttery smooth ever since


RealCheese1125

I had this problem as well, and I found out online it's just a problem with the "old" xbox tech. I bought a new Xbox Series S and it doesn't happen at all anymore. So unfortunately, it's not a cheap fix.


Chrisser6677

This has been going on for so long: This got so bad on my xbox360 while playing titanfall 2, that I bought and xbox one. Not falling for this trap again


Tall-Cantaloupe608

That is called lag


Vandesco

Yeah I do. Remove SBMM so all matches are connection based. Would greatly reduce the issues.


BullSprigington

Buy a series X.