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Hard_Attack_HD's avatar
3 years ago

EA App high dedicated memory usage

Hi EA Community,

I have an issue related with the EA Desktop App. I realized later, that the EA desktop App is using a lot of GPU Memory, which impact the in-game performance and as a result drop in the FPS of the games. I captured a screenshot from my machine (attached below) which shows, that the EA Desktop App is reserving about 768 MB from the graphic memory, which causes issues, while playing specially that i only have a 4 GB graphic card, so it's about 20% of my dedicated graphic memory. 

Notice: I hadn't such an issue with the old origin desktop app, so this issue is only inside the new ea desktop app.

My Machine specifications:

CPU: Intel Core i7 11800H 2.3Ghz upto 5.2Ghz

RAM: 32 GB DDR4 3200Mhz (2x16)
Graphic card: nVIDIA RTX 3050TI 4G GDDR6

OS: Windows 11 latest version

Is there is anyone that experience this issue, or notie that before ? Any way to force EA App not to eat up the dedicated memory of my graphic card ? 

See the picture from my Task manager for more info ... 

10 Replies

  • EA_Darko's avatar
    EA_Darko
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago

    Hey @Hard_Attack_HD as the EA App does not officially support Windows 11 then you may run into issues when running it on the OS.

    What steps have you tried to fix the issue, can you test on a supported OS?


    Darko 

  • Hey,

    I can't really test it on another system, since i don't want to formate my machine and install an older version of windows, it's not a windows issue, but app issue and the app most be fixed.

    To fix that I had done some steps: 

    1- As my machine has another integrated graphic card, I tried to force the EA App (From the windows settings and from the nVIDIA control panel as well) to use the Intel graphic card but after that the EA App was very laggy and i can't even play a video at the lowest quality inside the App. It's definitely not a H/W issue, because the integrated Graphic card is an Intel UHD Graphic, which is able to keep the entire machine running at top performance even without the nVIDIA card thanks to the core i7 processor.

    (So this didn't work).

    2- I tried to completely disable the nVIDIA graphic card, and then restart the machine. The result: I had a laggy experience as before. (So it didn't work too)

    Another notice here after this try: The EA App was using the intel graphic card 100% all the time for no reason and while playing the trailer video the video was very laggy and it was not running with video H/W decoding, but some how in compatibility mode as the GPU driver were not even installed.

    So i decied to let it so for now, but i really wonder if there is a way to play the games without installing the EA App, because i realized, that the EA App and AntiCheats container of the games are using a good percentage of the CPU power while playing (Maybe there is some data collection, or game monitoring inside the app) and i can't exclude, that the EA App is using my CPU and GPU power while running in background. So as temperaly soluation i'm disabling the EA App and i open it only while playing.

    I hope to see this issue fixed soon. 

    Thank you for replying

  • EA_Darko's avatar
    EA_Darko
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago

    Hey @Hard_Attack_HD I tested this now on my Win 11 system and am not seeing the issue you are.


    As Windows 11 is not officially supported by the EA App then the support we can offer is limited.

    All we can do is suggest that you use an OS that both the App and games you are trying to play are supported on.


    Darko 

  • Im sorry but thats unacceptable.. I play on a laptop, I dont have access to anything else and to ask anyone to do that is just ridiculous. How about EA releasing something that is tested first, and compatible with released technology that is well over 2 years old now, or give us origin back!!! PERIOD!!! Origin was working fine, the last time I played madden wasnt that long ago, but all of a sudden I come back after a few months and this is the only option? On top of that it eating memory I cant afford to have being eaten to run this game? What a joke!!!

  • Hi @EA_Darko 

    I think its not an issue of OS, to be honest.

    I see the same behavior running on Windows 10 Pro only after a certain time (some hours or so).

    The processes is only running as another name but its related to the EA App.

    The process is `C++ Application Development Framework` after I inspect where it is running from it shows me `QtWebEngineProcess.exe`
    which is a QT (version 5 I think) UI interface helper the app is using,
    On my machine it was eating up 1.2 GB and after I restarted the EA app it was using 67 MB again.

    So somehow its leaking memory.

    Hope this helps a bit narrowing down the issues people having.

  • * excuse... Then make it * work with Windows 11.

    Do you know how many of us use Windows 11???

    pathetic

  • Hi EA Community, 

    @EA_Darko Was there any update regarding this issue ?? 

    It's just getting worse and worse currently on my gaming pc. EA Desktop App and the EACefsubProcess are currently consuming about 4GB of my dedicated vram white starting a game like "Battlefield 2042" from the App "See the screenshot below"

    EACefsubProcess can't be ended from the task manager as it's keep restarting itself over and over again. 

    My current gaming pc: 

    CPU: intel core i5 13400f

    RAM: 32 GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6400

    Motherboard: B760 Gaming 

    GPU: Gigabyte nVIDIA RTX 3060 TI 8GB GDDR6

    Windows 11 Pro (Latest version)

    Best regards


  • Hard_Attack_HD's avatar
    Hard_Attack_HD
    6 months ago
    How to reproduce on any machine:
    To have the worst experience do the followings:
    Connect the pc to a 4K HDR Screen at deep color 10 or 12 bits and high refresh rate (i have a lg OLED evo 4k@120hz HDR 12bits)only by starting the ea App will eat about 1.5GB of Vram and trying to start a game in window mode will push the vram usageof the ea app and its services to about 2gb till 4gb depending on the started game. Trying to force the process EACefsubProcess from the task manager will make everything even worse as it will constantly restart and increase the vram usage over and over again.
  • dinglenar's avatar
    dinglenar
    6 months ago
    @Hard_Attack_HD What a terribly broken service. Why did everyone need their own game hub, and then they try to cross connect them and stuff, but you still need both hubs. Almost like we're sliding backwards as the games get better and more intensive, the darn hubs do as well. Would be so simple to keep a webpage and the dumbest of hubs, all it needs to do is open a game.. no? Maybe assist in installation, who even wanted an ea app? lol

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