I updated my computer with Windows 11 yesterday and was met with an issue in Apex for the first time ever: after 1-3 games, one of my CPU cores gets stuck at 100% load and doesn't come down until I close the game (and even then with a significant delay, depending on how long I continued to play until I closed the game when the issue happened). As the issue happened immediately following the Win 11 update, I reverted back to Win 10, but now it happened with that one too. I formatted the entire computer, doing a fresh install of the OS and Apex and sadly the issue still persists. This leads me to believe that there might be some issue with the most recent Windows update (11 or 10) and Apex and I was wondering if anyone else has this issue?I haven't been able to reproduce the issue with World of Warcraft or any other game yet.

It has nothing to do with your system its games fault, after one game it forces my 1 core to work on 100% it gets stuck, even after I turn off game and theres no proccess in task manager core still works 100% and steam thinks that game is still running. My 3 friends with different CPU's and systems in general has same issue. Please fix as game is unplayable coz of this.

Yeahh... same exact thing just started happening to me today...

Dont worry about your hardware apex is the one to blame

Exact same behaviour on my system, I have a 5800x for a cpu but it is also the second thread that is stuck at 100% and my CPU temp skyrockets as well.Same issue with not being able to kill the apex process either. It is ridicilious, but it is happening on other games that use Easy anti cheat, like Paladins and Lost Ark (same issues and symptoms those game tasks can't be closed and second thread stuck at 100%)I really hope it is fixed soon!

OMG. I was opting to buy a new CPU until i saw this. Im currently using AMD r5 2600 and gtx 1070ti. I thought my cpu cant handle the intensive workload of 1070ti and apex legends, but as i saw others comment (having an i9 cpu) then i realize that this is indeed Apex problem. It makes one core of the cpu run 100 percent does create micro stutter in game especially in heavy fights. I play pubg but this problem doesnt appear on the game.

1 CPU core gets stuck at 100% after playing Apex for a while

29 Replies

balladd
3 years ago
It has nothing to do with your system its games fault, after one game it forces my 1 core to work on 100% it gets stuck, even after I turn off game and theres no proccess in task manager core still works 100% and steam thinks that game is still running. My 3 friends with different CPU's and systems in general has same issue. Please fix as game is unplayable coz of this.
hsagroy
3 years ago
I have this same exact issue.
I partially suspect it has to do with Easy Anti-cheat.
EA please respond!
Arejaycg
3 years ago
Yeahh... same exact thing just started happening to me today...
xFreakyChicken
3 years ago
Dont worry about your hardware apex is the one to blame
DanLongman
3 years ago
Having this issue the last few days, when playing apex my System Process will have high CPU usage and will max out one thread causing CPU to get hotter, The issue only happens when playing Apex and when quitting the issue persists and I have to reboot PC to remedy.

Found this thread on Lost Ark that also uses EAC and users are having the same issue:
https://forums.playlostark.com/t/eac-problem-system-process-disconnect-high-cpu-use/491759/38
Gamewoaini9591
3 years ago
@DanLongman Also has this issue since four days ago. After tried serval methods, like updating BIOS/Graphic Driver/Intel ME/Windows; forcing game using DX12, nothing changed and issue happens after game start 5-10 minutes. Currently I have gived up playing.
SpelunkyMunkey
3 years ago
@Vuhra
@EA_David

I have the same issue here that just started happening within the past few days.

The only recent significant changes are Windows 11 KB5020044 update and Nvidia driver 527.37.

I tried reverting to 526.98 but the problem still occurs so doesn't seem to be due to the latest driver.

This is crazy be cause I have a 13900K and logical core 1 (2nd thread on core 0) is stuck at 100% causing my fans to go nuts and temperatures to shoot up.

After exiting the game, r5apex.exe is stuck running and I can't even kill the task. I literally have to restart my PC. And of course, Steam thinks the game is still running too.

I've stopped playing this stupid game because of it.
Others have posted about this too and mention EAC could be the culprit:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/EAC-issue-high-System-Process-usage-1-thread-maxxed/m-p/12111888/highlight/true#M162563
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/r5apex-exe-never-exits-and-cannot-be-killed/m-p/12102329/highlight/true#M162397
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/doesn-t-stop-running/m-p/12111059/highlight/true#M162552
SpelunkyMunkey
3 years ago
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DanLongman
3 years ago
Exact same behaviour on my system, I have a 5800x for a cpu but it is also the second thread that is stuck at 100% and my CPU temp skyrockets as well.
Same issue with not being able to kill the apex process either.
It is ridicilious,
but it is happening on other games that use Easy anti cheat, like Paladins and Lost Ark (same issues and symptoms those game tasks can't be closed and second thread stuck at 100%)
I really hope it is fixed soon!
kramkejo
3 years ago
OMG. I was opting to buy a new CPU until i saw this. Im currently using AMD r5 2600 and gtx 1070ti. I thought my cpu cant handle the intensive workload of 1070ti and apex legends, but as i saw others comment (having an i9 cpu) then i realize that this is indeed Apex problem. It makes one core of the cpu run 100 percent does create micro stutter in game especially in heavy fights. I play pubg but this problem doesnt appear on the game.