Re: Antimalware Service Executable spike CPU usage to 100%

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..

Just wanted to say I'm having this issue as well and can't seem to fix it. 

First, I don't think this is an EA issue, more like a Windows Defender issue. I do get the cpu spike opening (some) other programs. I didn't have this issue before I uninstalled Avast Free antivirus. I tried some of the suggestions offered here, but nothing worked for me.

Here is what seems to be (so far) working for me: reinstall a third party anti-virus. I installed Bitdefender Free, and so far so good, no more waiting 5 minutes for the cpu usage to go down.

in my poor opinion i think this is a bug in something in apex files ou easycheat because till 5season i never had any trouble with my apex, and my pc isn't so weak @HaveFunFriends 

I posted this issue on reddit and someone posted this response:

If anyone still has this problem and find this post when googling, I have found the solution (works for me at least).

Open Control Panel

Open System and security

Click Allow an app or feature through windows defender firewall

Click 'Change settings' then 'Allow another app'

Add EasyAntiCheat.exe from the programfilesx86 folder (my path C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyAntiCheat)

This solved the problem with 100% success rate for me after none of any other tips on google worked.

Here is the link. If it works for you, go rep them. https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/gnvmlu/season_5_and_windows_defender_results_in_100_cpu/

did it solved to you ? @SerialTurd 

I've had several start ups and no more slowness.  Seems to work.

ok, now let me know exactly what i need to do... i'm a little dunkey in this things.

on my pc i need to go to security and click in "ADD EXCLUSION" or is in another place?  @SerialTurd