Apex Legends crashing whole pc

QTheFemboy · May 16

After loading up and going into a game, not even 5 minutes in the game just bricks my pc and does not respond at all, I can’t even ctrl+alt+delete to open task manager the whole pc just freezes and I’m unable to do anything other than restart the pc. This never happened a few days ago, is anyone else having this issue or does anyone know how to fix this?

PcBeExpensive · May 17

2 hours ago, QTheFemboy said:

After loading up and going into a game, not even 5 minutes in the game just bricks my pc and does not respond at all, I can’t even ctrl+alt+delete to open task manager the whole pc just freezes and I’m unable to do anything other than restart the pc. This never happened a few days ago, is anyone else having this issue or does anyone know how to fix this?

Did the game update recently? Have you installed anything in the past few days that may have caused this. What are your specs?

QTheFemboy · May 17

18 hours ago, PcBeExpensive said:

Did the game update recently? Have you installed anything in the past few days that may have caused this. What are your specs?

The game updated about 2 weeks ago, my parts aren’t the best but I use an i5-4690k, 16gb ddr3 ram and a gtx 1660 super but my parts were never the problem since before the update it worked perfectly fine at a steady 100 fps, I’ve tried verifying game files, updating drivers and fully reinstalling the game but still same result, this doesn’t happen to any of my friends at all and finally I don’t believe it’s anything I downloaded since I upgraded windows so I formatted my ssd so there’s nothing malicious that could really be on there

PcBeExpensive · May 19

On 5/18/2024 at 4:40 AM, QTheFemboy said:

The game updated about 2 weeks ago, my parts aren’t the best but I use an i5-4690k, 16gb ddr3 ram and a gtx 1660 super but my parts were never the problem since before the update it worked perfectly fine at a steady 100 fps, I’ve tried verifying game files, updating drivers and fully reinstalling the game but still same result, this doesn’t happen to any of my friends at all and finally I don’t believe it’s anything I downloaded since I upgraded windows so I formatted my ssd so there’s nothing malicious that could really be on there

Hmm, can you go back and play on the older version of the game before the recent update?

Mark Kaine · May 21

hmm yeah your parts never were the problem, but they're old... usually something like that could be ram related or even mobo. maybe psu. how old is the psu?

what's the psu anyway (brand, model, wattage)?