Can I delete Easy Anti-Cheat Now?
Now that the PC community has a new EA branded anti-cheat (Lord help us) can I / we uninstall Easy Anti-Cheat? Doesn't run on game start up anymore, or seem active in any way. Can we trash it?
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@ATFGunr
Easy Anti Cheat is used in a lot of games now, if you don't have any games that use EAC then I don't see any reason to not uninstall it.
Hmmm the EA Anti cheat service is still running after closing the game or EAC service? that's disturbing!
Check out EA Background Service as part of the EA App. That thing runs full time, EA won’t tell us what it does, and it will even turn itself back on if you kill it in Task Manager. The only way to stop it is in Services. I’ve set it to manual so it starts when I start the EA App, but I have to manually turn it off. Frustrating.
@ATFGunr
Does this start when you launch the game, just fired up the PC and I do not have this service running?
If this is in fact the truth, I may be uninstalling BF2042 and EA APP.Found this so it might be OK.
[INFO] The EA app Background Service and how it's being used - Answer HQ
- @sk1lld They posted that after a bunch of negative posts about it. Some were getting a performance hit from it although I never did. Others were getting increased network activity and for those on metered connections, it wasn’t a good thing. I like my computer programs to turn off when I turn them off. Did you know the EA App doesn’t turn off when you hit X? It only turns off when you physically right click and exit. Otherwise it just minimizes. It just bugs me is all.
I keep hoping to get confirmation about deleting EAC from a CM who checked with Dice so I stay on side. If I don’t need EAC and can delete it, so much the better. The new EA anti cheat seems to be contributing to the new freezing issues (supposition) so for now I’ll stand pat in case we need to revert back to Easy AC.
