Solution that worked for me:
Go to your main drive, find system32, find easyanticheat (.sys or .exe) and add that as a safe program to your windows defender.
It seems to be the easyanticheat software that gets thoroughly investigated every time it starts up, might be because it needs access to so much of your computer.
quick edit:
My path is C:/Windows/System32/drivers/easyanticheat.sys
UPDATE to my previous answer.
While it seemed to have been fixed for me after doing what I said, it has started being a problem again yesterday. Excactly the same as before. CPU spikes super high for a few minutes when loading up Apex and lags the whole PC out.
Might as well post specs to find out common threads. Is everyone running on windows 10?
I would assume most are running Windows 10 by now.
At least I am.
Hardware specs are here https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/7V3p3t
I got the problem before season 5 for me, but i thought it was a WINDOWS 10 problem. But now, i'm taking a look when i'm launching the game and indeed i get the same CPU spike problem.
CPU Usage 100%, computer become slow during 1 minute.
It's really annoying, there is no problem into other games...
EDIT : I fixed the issue with adding %appdata% Roaming Easy Anti Cheat exclusion into Windows Defender / Apex directory and Easy Cheat directory. After a computer restart, it seems to work.
I'm still having the same issues. I've excluded origin, origin games, the easycheat folder in apex, in program files and in %appdata%. I still get 100% cpu utilization when launching Apex. Annoying!
still have the problem, add all file sys and exe mentioned in the exluded list but nothing change...
The win10 antimalware slow down my PC 😠
Finally i still got this problem -_- Great apex devs.
Man, this is a boring issue i'm getting till the beginning of S5, the same problems and i tried all the tips i've found in the internet.... DEVS PLEASE, TAKE A LOOK AT THAT!!!!!!!!
JESUS!!! i just got the * Blue screen from windows, because this bug, if this don't get some attention from the devs i will need to leave the game, this is making bad issues to my pc.....
Same here... I don't know what is actually eating my cpu. When i open the game just Apex seems to be 95-100 % cpu usage. When i am playing sometimes "System" uses 15-20%. That is also annoying too. And apex uses 65-95 in-game. That is so annoying. Im so tired looking at the fixes. i5 10300h gtx 1650ti btw.
My setup is almost like yours i have a i5 7400 and a gtx 1060 6gb MSi, and 16gb RAM @odahvinng
without the bug in a normal run is between 20%-40% in the bug 79%-98%. @odahvinng
When i get the bug, i open the task manager and finish apex, then i open it again, this fix the game for that run, but when i close the game, the next time i need to open it and close and open again then is playable again.
This is a way i've find to play, this maybe can be useful for you guys, but isn't A FIX, just a bug in the bug xD
I disable the Real-time protection, it say it's temporary but seems and still work.
If somone else can test this way..
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