Regarding the issue of APEX not starting.

I am also having the same EAC related CTD, every two games it crashing in the middle or end of the third game. No crashlog or error message except for a BypassIO error in event viewer shown below. 

File System Filter 'EasyAntiCheat_EOSSys' (Version 10.0, ‎2025‎-‎03‎-‎28T13:10:53.000000000Z) does not support bypass IO.
Supported features: 0x4.

I also can't run the EAC setup file, it just shows command prompt for 1 millisecond then disappears even if I run it as administrator. I've tried pretty much everything, re downloading the game, uninstalling EAC and reinstalling it entirely and even tried the manual repair option EAC has on their website (https://www.easy.ac/en-US/support/articles/eac-windows-service). the only thing I haven't done is disable BypassIO on the drives which I shouldn't have to do. 

Unfortunately, I can't move the game to a different drive because both of my drives are BypassIO compatible, I'm not sure if this is a EA problem or a EAC problem.

Not really sure what else to try.