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LostSultan
3 years ago

Re: EA ap Background Service keeps running while EA app is stopped

the service does also run when the xbox app runs (in background), so if you have it all set on the EA App (disable all relevant settings as shared in this thread), and you close the xbox app, within one min. the ea service will close.


The only thing that concerns me is that i cannot link eabackgroundservice to internal gpu (laptop) even though you set that up correctly on Windows & Nvidia Settings. Imagine draining your battery as it activates your (high end) gpu..

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  • STG_Mordin's avatar
    STG_Mordin
    Rising Hotshot
    3 years ago
    @LostSultan The background service shouldn't even use the GPU in any way. Microsoft discourages developers from using any graphical APIs from Windows services. This EA background service links to the Qt GUI application framework which could be the reason why it might end up (unintentionally) activating the GPU.

    Since that service is launching the EA Desktop App you could try setting EA Desktop App to use built-in GPU, maybe that will help.

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