Apex Legends: How to Fix 100% CPU Usage - Ultimate Guide

Many Apex Legends users are wondering how to fix their CPU usage to 100 percent, which we will help fix in this guide.

 What is the CPU usage problem in Apex Legends?

This is a problem that has started to appear after the Season 10 Emergence. What happens is that some gamers reported that the CPU usage on their PCs when trying to play was going to 100 percent, leading to poor game performance and lag.

However, before moving on to the part on how to fix the CPU usage to 100 percent, you should know that the developers have said, "We are aware of this problem", so they may be working on correcting it, although the problem is long overdue and the developers haven't done anything. That's why we'll take care of it and tell you how to fix 100 percent CPU usage in Apex Legends.

How to fix 100 percent CPU usage in Apex Legends?

The first thing you should know if you wonder how to fix 100 percent CPU usage in Apex Legends, is that the problem may be the game and certain system-specific hardware, so it may affect some and not others.

The first thing we recommend you do is restart your PC, this is good when there is a temporary system overload.
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When restarting, make sure to access the game in a clean boot environment, keeping closed all those programs that you are not really going to use and that consume a lot of resources. Even if you can just run the game, try to do it.

Run the game as administrator, for this you will have to find the game's .exe and give it administrator permission.

Make sure to repair the game files, as any damaged or corrupted files can cause the problem.

Clearing Origin and Steam cache is another option that can help with high CPU usage.

Set Affinity for the client you use to play. To do this, you will have to access the client you use to play> press Windows X key> click on Task Manager> right click on Steam / Origin> select Go to details> go to the main Steam / Origin process> right click on it> Set affinity> uncheck the processor cores except the first and last, and voilà.
 We hope that after reading this guide on how to fix the CPU usage to 100 percent in Apex Legends, you will be able to correct this annoying problem and that if it is a problem directly from the game, the developers will bring a solution as soon as possible.