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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...

fowl_owo

6 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

6 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
6 years ago
@Faayyde And probably won't get fixed soon, just like the fixes to servers, noregs etc. ☹️
- SerialTurd
  6 years ago
  Might as well post specs to find out common threads. Is everyone running on windows 10?
  - Faayyde
    6 years ago
    @SerialTurd I don't think specs are a problem because as i said the game was working completely fine before season 5 even with the anti cheat and windows defender still running, and yes to your question.