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Faayyde
6 years ago

Antimalware Service Executable spike CPU usage to 100%

Ever since Season 5 started, there's a process called Antimalware Service Executable that shows up in the task manager every time i launch Apex, it spikes up the cpu to 100% and the entire pc lags an...
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SerialTurd
6 years ago

Same here.  I've added the origin directory, the games directory all as exclusions to windows defender and it still kills my cpu. 

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    Faayyde
    6 years ago
    @SerialTurd Please share here if you found a solution because i'm still struggling and even the support team didn't help me

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