Apex won't close, after exiting to desktop

bump! new split same issue! i literally cannot play
i tried everything from updating every driver to the latest or going to known stable (gpu/chipset/bios...etc), changing windows also lead to the same issue, everything i try lead to the same issue, a few minutes into the game lead to eac over using my cpu and wont close apex even i try to end task from task manager

I now have massive ping problems for every match, the only way to fix this is to restart the game. Guess what, I now cannot restart the game on Steam or EA app and have to restart my PC. Total joke

still a massive issue, also its easy to know when it will happen because the game starts to run badly. Like I'm lagging but without any connection issues. frames are skipped, other players are gittering around. 

What's the chances of this ever getting looked into? 

I only logged it to answer you, I had the same issues yesterday, it's easy anti cheat, not closing on windows 11 25h2, you have to downgrade to older windows like 23h2, which known to be stable, today I freshly formated my PC and installed windows 11 23h2, I don't have this bug anymore but same high CPU temperature I saw in 25h2, and no I don't have cooling issues, I play other games fine like battlefield 6 which is also EA game with easy anti cheat, so it's 100% apex issues, I think they are telling to leave this game...

here some screenshot while the game is closed but not really:

edit: windows 11 23h2 did not help at all, i got the same issue, eac get stuck after playing for some time, fully closing apex wont be possible, and stays like in the screenshot above, i tried to use latest windows again 25h2 and installed only the things needed to play apex, motherboard chipset, nvidia driver, steam, and apex and nothing else, not even a browser or discord, and got the same issue..