FIX: Black textures in Apex Legends

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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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-acclaimedgamedeveloped 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 recentApex Legends System Overrideupdate may have noticed that thegamenow 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:

How do I fix black textures in Apex Legends?

1. Repair the game through the Origin launcher

2. Run the game in High-performance mode

Another thing you could try is running thegameusing Admin rights. However, this is only worth trying if you are running thegamefrom 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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FIX: Black textures in Apex Legends#

How do I fix black textures in Apex Legends?#

1. Repair the game through the Origin launcher#

2. Run the game in High-performance mode#

FIX: Black textures in Apex Legends

How do I fix black textures in Apex Legends?

1. Repair the game through the Origin launcher

2. Run the game in High-performance mode