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Rising Novice

31 days ago

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Apex Legends stuttering 5 minutes after launch

When I first installed Apex legends on my freshly built machine, which is dual boot with 2 Windows 11 Pro operating systems, the game ran perfectly. I played for several hours, no issues, and procee...

anticheat

freezing

lag

Sib3riX
30 days ago
Fix for stuttering on desktop/laptop after 24/07/2025 update
If your laptop or desktop use realtek lan drivers from manufacturer or you have newer one you will get micro stutter after 3-4 minutes in game. This is caused by EAC scanning realtek lan driver and causing high cpu usage. Everytime you get a stutter you can observe event viewer spammed with errors: event id 2 (rt26cx21 cannot be found). Reinstalling driver doesnt not help. Only solution is to remove realtek lan drivers and let windows install generic ones and your stutter will be gone.
Also if you run motherboard with tb4 make sure to select power options for usb to disbale
https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/amd-600-series/x670e-usb4-and-easyanticheat-cause-stuttering/td-p/980441

Sib3riX

Rising Traveler

30 days ago

Fix for stuttering on desktop/laptop after 24/07/2025 update

If your laptop or desktop use realtek lan drivers from manufacturer or you have newer one you will get micro stutter after 3-4 minutes in game. This is caused by EAC scanning realtek lan driver and causing high cpu usage. Everytime you get a stutter you can observe event viewer spammed with errors: event id 2 (rt26cx21 cannot be found). Reinstalling driver doesnt not help. Only solution is to remove realtek lan drivers and let windows install generic ones and your stutter will be gone.

Also if you run motherboard with tb4 make sure to select power options for usb to disbale

https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/amd-600-series/x670e-usb4-and-easyanticheat-cause-stuttering/td-p/980441

Juct1cee-___-

Seasoned Newcomer

30 days ago

I have same problem but I don't have realtek lan drivers

fivecargo5
Rising Novice
30 days ago
If it's not the LAN driver, then it could also be a USB controller. The rabbit to chase here is finding what driver EAC is interfering with. The tell-tale sign is the stuttering happening 5 minutes in to the game. I found a thread somewhere talking about a Thunderbird USB controller on a specific motherboard. You may have that issue. The fix there is adjusting a power setting for USB on your power plan in Windows, as Sib3riX mentioned.
Go to Event Viewer in Windows -> system, and look for spammed error messages. They will give you a clue.
Sib3riX
Rising Traveler
30 days ago
Just check link from asus post if this doesnt help just track what is happening in event viewer. It will be spammed with a lot of error messages. Click on that message and post here and we can find solution.

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