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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

@miup123 Did you specifically exclude that folder?  I have my origin games folder excluded which the EasyAntiCheat folder is a sub folder to that folder.  I'd think it would be excluded automatically.

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miup123
6 years ago
@SerialTurd In my environment, EasyAntiCheat exists inside of 'Origin Games' folder and outside of the folder as 'Program Files/Origin Games/Apex/EasyAntiCheat' and 'Program Files/EasyAntiCheat'. My exclusion setting is both of them. First, I tried to add only Origin games, it is not effective. Next I tried to add Program Files/EasyAntiCheat and solved.

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