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3 years ago

r5apex.exe never exits and cannot be killed

pretty much title, in case I want to close the game or restart it, apex legends as a window disappears but the process keeps running. I've tried multiple things to fix it such as killing it with cmd,...

XHelperZ

Hero+

3 years ago

I've seen around 10 reports of this in a timeframe of a single day.

Not an extremely big issue, though some seem to be experiencing it.
Starts running as a background process and eats up around a gig of ram, why would it still be running in the background? (Not aware of any checks done, so this is definitely not required)

Rebooting your PC or using this command: "shutdown /s /f /t 0" in an admin CMD should resolve the issue.

0p_Outlaw
3 years ago
@XHelperZi was searching for this error fix and i just realized that 5 people have reported this issue in past 2 hrs and btw it took 15 to 20 minutes for my pc to close that app in the background completely (on its own).
Wolferato
Rising Ace
3 years ago
Actually, it's a bit of issue. This also happens to me. Reboot helps, but it's not a permanent solution. It prevents from restarting the game from Steam. Files verified and no issues. Also noticed that the System node uses 20% more CPU afterwards, which is strange. This happened after the latest update. I suspect it's EAC, does it run at kernel level already? If so, there might be a bug.
- XHelperZ
  Hero+
  3 years ago
  @Wolferato
  EAC already runs on kernel level, every anticheat does pretty much nowadays.
  Though if EAC would still be on then we wouldn't really be seeing it in such a way, so it's most likely something else.
- SzaSomaX
  3 years ago
  Yes, it is EAC. I debugged the cpu and I found that EAC.sys is using 20-25% cpu after 10 mins of playing.
  - too0ld4thi5
    Rising Scout
    3 years ago
    Obviously something is eating very diligently. I had the same problem. I exit Apex & went into steam library. Press 'STOP'.
    About 4-5mins it will stop(depends on your system). I restart again(press 'PLAY'). After 3 rounds, it started again...eating. So yummy.
    And 'no'. I did not update my gpu drivers. Still using 526.98. The update is not related to this game hence no point.
- George45283
  3 years ago
  When i leave apex from steam (any way) it still runs in task manager and can't stop it so if i have lag or something i need to restart my pc to rejoin on apex.
  I tried verify integrity of game files and i don't wanna reinstall apex (too much work 🙂) )
  - Unpaid_Jesus
    New Hotshot
    3 years ago
    @George45283 HAVING THIS PROBLEM TOOOOOOOO. thank god. i thought it was my problem