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Re: EASY ANTI CHEAT IS MAKING MY GAME FREEZE AND STUTTER

@OjBreshk

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/doesn-t-stop-running/m-p/12111059/highlight/true#M162552

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

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/Apex-Legends-won-t-close-on-the-EA-app/m-p/12110784#M162544

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Can-t-start-uninstall-or-stop-Apex/m-p/12110893#M162547

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Apex-Legends-process-not-closing-whenever-exiting-game/m-p/9698885/highlight/true#M88134

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  • KernalMooley's avatar
    KernalMooley
    3 years ago

    My game used to run perfectly until this season, but now I'm having the same micro stutter. I checked the event viewer and EAC was constantly faulting. Repairing EAC initially seemed to resolve the issue but now I cannot play the game at all. I have had several friends pack up playing because of this. EA can you respond to all these threads and let us know what you are doing to resolve this? Your game is broken and getting worse!