Developers at Respawn Entertainment have fixed a potential performance issue in its popular free-to-play battle-royale game Apex Legends. According to the latest patch notes for the upcoming Season 29 'Overclocked' update, players can expect improved performance with reduced stuttering at high frame rates on some PCs. Somewhat counterintuitively, the patch notes specifically call out the high performance of AMD's V-Cache-equipped Ryzen X3D chips as a reason for the stutter.
Fast-paced shooters running on older engines, like the modified Source engine that powers Apex Legends, aren’t always optimized for high frame rates. In these cases, physics calculations can potentially become a bottleneck. Since physics updates must be completed before each frame is passed off to the GPU to be rendered, complex scenarios like explosions, ragdolls, or multiple object interactions can stall the main thread and lead to inconsistencies.
