Here's my launcher for Apex Legends. The script does a few things: it sets desktop resolution, CPU priority, affinity and optimizations, then finally starts the game together with Steam Achievement Manager so that Steam knows that I'm playing even if I'm running Origin. This is because I'm forced to use Origin or the game will stutter, possibly due to the Steam overlay. This way your friends can see you're playing, and join. When you close the game, the Steam Achievement Manager is closed automatically, further information about what the script does here.
- Download the script and extract to a folder
- Download Steam Achievement Manager and extract
SAM.API.dllandSAM.Game.exeto the same folder - Edit configurations within settings.cmd
| Variable | Value |
|---|---|
| apex_bin | C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Apex\r5apex.exe |
| apex_width | 1920 |
| apex_height | 1080 |
| apex_cpu_affinity | FF |
- Change
apex_binto the full path of your Apex Legends executabler5apex.exe - Change
apex_widthandapex_heightto your preferred in-game screen resolution - Change
apex_cpu_affinityto match your preferred settings, further information here and here - Finally run
r5apex.cmdto start the game
AFFINITY works with hexidecimal mask that allows granular control of all of your processors, where the rightmost bit specifies the lowest-order CPU (0). You can tweak the affinity parameter FF for your system, these are some affinity mask values for an 8-CPU system:
| Decimal value | Binary bit mask | Allow threads on processors |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 00000001 | 0 |
| 3 | 00000011 | 0 and 1 |
| 7 | 00000111 | 0, 1, and 2 |
| 15 | 00001111 | 0, 1, 2, and 3 |
| 31 | 00011111 | 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 |
| 63 | 00111111 | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 |
| 127 | 01111111 | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 |
| 255 | 11111111 | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 |