okay well the ea moderators on this forum are useless and seem to be dodging all the questions about the anti cheat, (seems like a recent apex patch cooked the anti cheat) and no one online was able to really tell me how to fix it so im going to mention how i was able to fix mine here. if youre having the same issue, go to the apex in your steam library and right click apex -> properties -> installed files -> browse, once youre in the files find the easy anti cheat folder and go to the "EasyAntiCheat_EOS_Setup" file and right click it go to properties -> compatibility -> turn on compatibility mode and set it to windows 8 -> and select the checkbox that says "run this program as administrator" click apply and try to open apex it SHOULD work but this is my 4th time fixing my game and every time i do it goes back to doing the same thing after a couple days so i will update if it does