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 🙂) )
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 )
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