Apex legends the Latest Battle Royal Game challenging PUBG and Fornite in terms of fans/players

No doubt, Apex legends is gaining huge popularity among users worldwide and has achieved 25 million registered players in just one week after launch. When we talk about other Battle Royal game i.e., PUBG and Fortnite, both the game has huge numbers of fans/players worldwide. But, Apex legends game is challenging the dominance of these two famous games. However, some users are facing Apex crash issues on their PCs. If Apex legends won’t launch on your PCs, then you can read this article carefully. I am sure this article will help you to fix all the issues related to this game as well as help you to improve your gaming performance.

Reason behind Apex legends won’t launch issue

If Apex legends game showing “ download ” instead of “ Play ”, then it might possible that the registry of this game not applied.

” instead of “ ”, then it might possible that the registry of this game not applied. If MSVCP104.dll and Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable Update 3 RC are missing or corrupted, then you might get the issue while you will try to start the Apex legends game.

It might possible to get “dll Not Found or Missing Errors” after pressing start button, if Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 has corrupted or missing.

Ways to fix Apex legends won’t launch issue on PCs

Procedure 1: Fix Apex legends game can’t download/install issue

Step 1: Go to Google and search for Hotspotshield add-on or other any other VPN service

Step 2: Now, log-in to the original launcher or original website

Step 3: After that, add Apex legends game to your library

Step 4: Then logout and Turn off the VPN

Step 5: Finally, the game is available to download/install. Hope the issue is resolved now.

Procedure 2: Fix Apex legends Low FPS, works for Nvidia and AMD cards

Step 1: Click on Start button and search for Graphics settings, and then open classic app

Step 2: Now, find the .exe file your game.

Step 3: In new Window popup, check the High performance

Step 4: Finally, go to game directory and runs the .exe as an administrator. (Avoid to launch it from shortcut)

Procedure 3: Fix Apex legends Infinite Loading issue

Step 1: At first, close the Apex legends game and Origin Launcher completely and assure you are logged-in

Step 2: Now, open the drive set for Origin Games library and click on Apex Folder

Step 3: In Apex folder, search for r5apex.exe > right click on it > select Properties

Step 4: After that, select runs the program under Compatibility mode in Compatibility tab and click on the bottom on the run the program as administrator

Step 5: Click on OK to save changes

Step 6: Now, Open Apex legends game and wait for bit o the main menu where Continue selection prompts.

Step 7: wait for Data Center option become available which shows your ping and packet loss % to the game’s different servers.

Step 8: Finally, start the game and check if the problem is resolved.

Procedure 4: If Apex legends game is unable to connect to EA servers, then follow the step given below

Step 1: At first, flush DNS

Step 2: Port forwarding

Step 3: Try to run Origin and Apex as Admin

Step 4: Update network drivers

Procedure 5: If Redistributable packages (DirectX) was not installed successfully, then fix it

Step 1: At first, go to installation path of the game like “F:\program files (x86)\Origin Games\Apex” and navigate to Installer\directX\redist

Step 2: Now, delete all the files except DSETUP.dll, dsetup32.dll and dxsetup.exe. Please the check if the problem is resolved.

Procedure 6: Re-install Graphics drivers or else in some cases the bad cache

Step 1: Open the Notepad and type or copy & paste the following command

taskkill /F /IM Origin.exe taskkill /F /IM OriginClientService.exe taskkill /F /IM OriginWebHelperService.exe pushd “C:\ProgramData\Origin\” || exit /B 1 for /D %%D in (“*”) do ( if /I not “%%~nxD”==”LocalContent” rd /S /Q “%%~D” ) for %%F in (“*”) do ( del “%%~F” ) popd rmdir /s /q “C:\Users\INSERTYOURUSERNAMEHERE\AppData\Roaming\Origin” rmdir /s /q “C:\Users\INSERTYOURUSERNAMEHERE\AppData\Local\Origin” shutdown /r /t 0

Step 2: Save the notepad file with .bat File extension (Set File type .bat)

Step 3: Run the .bat (batch file) and wait for the complete the process.

Step 4: After restart your computer. You will be to play Apex legends comfortably.

Procedure 7: Re-install Apex legends Game, to fix Apex legends errors

Step 1: Click on Start button and click on Control Panel

Step 2: Now, select Programs and features

Step 3: Search for Apex legends and right click on it and select uninstall

Step 4: Finally, download Origin and then Apex legends from Origin Store

Procedure 8: Check the Firewall and Antivirus setting

Step 1: Open Windows Defender Firewall and check if the Apex legends and Origin appear under inbound Rules column.

Step 2: Select inbound Rules in left column and click on Action and select new Rule

Step 3: Select Program and click on Next

Step 4: Now, select the program path to locate the Apex legends launcher file in folder where you have installed the game.

Step 5: Select allow the connection in the next screen and click on next

Step 6: After that, select all three boxes and click on Next

Step 6: Finally, assign any name to this rule and click on finish. Repeat the same process for Origin this time.

Conclusion

I hope this article helped you to fix Apex legends won’t launch issue with several methods. You can choose either one or all procedure to fix this error as per System requirements. If you unable to fix Apex legends errors on your PCs, then it might possible that your System has malware or Spyware related troubles. In this case, you can scan your computer with very strong antimalware Reimage that is able to delete all junk files or viruses from System completely.