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,...
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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.
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.
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.
Yes, it is EAC. I debugged the cpu and I found that EAC.sys is using 20-25% cpu after 10 mins of playing.
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.
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 🙂) )
- @George45283 HAVING THIS PROBLEM TOOOOOOOO. thank god. i thought it was my problem
- @George45283 had that problem since 1-2 days ago, cant be sure
I reached an helper from EA he told me that ya should delete steam then cache and install steam again (maybe because my brain didn't function I had to install all games again but might be just because of me )
- @George45283
Same here. My post from a similar thread:
I have the same issue here that just started happening within the past few days.
The only recent significant changes are Windows 11 KB5020044 update and Nvidia driver 527.37.
I tried reverting to 526.98 but the problem still occurs so doesn't seem to be due to the latest driver.
This is crazy be cause I have a 13900K and logical core 1 (2nd thread on core 0) is stuck at 100% causing my fans to go nuts and temperatures to shoot up.
After exiting the game, r5apex.exe is stuck running and I can't even kill the task. I literally have to restart my PC. And of course, Steam thinks the game is still running too.
I've stopped playing this stupid game because of it.
Others have posted about this too and like many have mentioned EAC is likely the culprit:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/EAC-issue-high-System-Process-usage-1-thread-maxxed/m-p/12111888/highlight/true#M162563
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/r5apex-exe-never-exits-and-cannot-be-killed/m-p/12102329/highlight/true#M162397
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/1-CPU-core-gets-stuck-at-100-after-playing-Apex-for-a-while/m-p/12103410/highlight/true#M162418
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