FIX: Black textures in Apex Legends

Gaming

2 min. read

Updated on October 4, 2023

by Teodor Nechita

updated on October 4, 2023

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Key notes

Apex Legends is a free-to-play Battle Royale game published by Electronic Arts.
The game follows the same premise of multiple players fighting until there is only one left.
If you want to read more about this amazing game, check out our dedicated Apex Legends Hub.
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It’s no surprise that ever since Apex legends appeared in the gaming scene, a lot of other FPS Battle-Royale games have taken a brief nosedive.

This critically-acclaimed game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts has been very popular within the gaming community.

In fact, the constant patches that contain new features, fixes, and balance changes are a testimony to that.

However, not all updates go as smoothly, as some do manage to bring a few issues of their own.

For example, those of you that installed the recent Apex Legends System Override update may have noticed that the game now suffers from black textures or even missing visual elements.

These include black boxes or backgrounds on maps, sometimes over individual characters.

Fortunately enough, there are currently two reasons why the black textures bug may appear:

Missing game assets
Incorrect GPU settings

How do I fix black textures in Apex Legends?

1. Repair the game through the Origin launcher

Open the Origin Launcher a
Locate Apex Legends in your gaming library
Right-click on Apex Legends
Select Repair
Wait for the software to finish verifying, downloading, and installing the necessary files

2. Run the game in High-performance mode

Make sure that both Apex Legends and the Origin launcher are closed
- You should close them from the Task Manager to be sure
Go to the Start Menu
Type in Graphics settings and go to the first result
Within Graphics settings, under the option to Choose an app to set preference, select Classic app
Click Browse and navigate to the Apex Legends installation folder
- The default directory is C:Program FilesOrigin GamesApex
Select the game’s executable file, then click Add
Click the Options button
In the pop-up menu, select High performance, then click Save

Another thing you could try is running the game using Admin rights. However, this is only worth trying if you are running the game from a PC’s Guest Account and not the PC’s default administrative account.

Although this bug has been around for some time now and the solutions to solving it are pretty straightforward, you have to admit that being immersed in a photorealistic world and suddenly seeing black textures can be annoying.

Have you experienced the black texture issue while playing Apex Legends? Let us know how you handled it by leaving us a message in the comments section below.

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