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Faayyde's avatar
Faayyde
5 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...
lowkey_lowki's avatar
lowkey_lowki
5 years ago

Solution that worked for me:

Go to your main drive, find system32, find easyanticheat (.sys or .exe) and add that as a safe program to your windows defender.

It seems to be the easyanticheat software that gets thoroughly investigated every time it starts up, might be because it needs access to so much of your computer.

quick edit:

My path is C:/Windows/System32/drivers/easyanticheat.sys

  • Faayyde's avatar
    Faayyde
    5 years ago
    @lowkey_lowki I don't have easyanticheat.sys. could it be in another directory?
  • fowl_owo's avatar
    fowl_owo
    5 years ago

    UPDATE to my previous answer.

    While it seemed to have been fixed for me after doing what I said, it has started being a problem again yesterday. Excactly the same as before. CPU spikes super high for a few minutes when loading up Apex and lags the whole PC out.

    • Faayyde's avatar
      Faayyde
      5 years ago
      @fowl_owo i'm pretty sure its a problem on their end because it was working perfectly fine before season 5
      • fowl_owo's avatar
        fowl_owo
        5 years ago
        @Faayyde And probably won't get fixed soon, just like the fixes to servers, noregs etc. ☹️

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