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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,...

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.

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.