Performance delay following gameplay with EA Anti Cheat on a new installation
Performance delay following gameplay with EA Anti Cheat on a new installation
I recorded this on a notepad document. It took 9 seconds for my PC to notice I pressed enter twice to save and open the file. Opening Chrome to share it took about 13 seconds. Launching Task Manager was roughly 4 to 6 seconds. None of these issues appeared before I played Battlefield 1 last night, which uses EA Anti Cheat. After around three hours of gameplay, I started experiencing frequent stutters and input glitches, making my recent actions completely lost. These symptoms match what my five-year-old laptop was showing after nearly 1500 hours of Battlefield 1 playtime before EA Anti Cheat was added. When Anti Cheat was installed, the same problems appeared on that older machine too. But this isn’t a five-year-old laptop—I’m using a brand new build with a 9800X3D, 64GB RAM, 2TB NVMe, 4070 Ti CPU, and ten fans running cool. Windows 11 Home 10.0.26100 hasn’t been activated yet. Everything felt smooth before I started playing BF1. BF1 is the only game I’ve used this system for since it passed Cinebench with excellent results. I’m convinced EA Anti Cheat is damaging the system’s performance. Searching online shows many unrelated posts about EA games and Anti Cheat, mostly on EA’s own forums—unfortunately, they’re all unsolved. I’m really worried I wasted time and money hoping this fix would work. I just want to understand what’s happening. Can you help me figure it out?
It seems the issue lies with EA's Anti Cheat system. Similar problems occur with Easy Anti Cheat during extended Apex Legends sessions—everything feels sluggish, even on Windows or web browsers. Restarting the PC often resolves it. This appears to be a memory leak caused by the Anti Cheat drivers. The developers would need to fix it. To address this, you should reach out to the developers directly or uninstall the software from your system.
It’s a recurring chat about performance drops after extended gaming sessions. Most mention the EA Anti Cheat update as the cause, likely running at the kernel level. On my laptop, a restart helps, but on this new desktop it doesn’t. I discovered LatencyMon in another discussion and tested it for five minutes while switching between Explorer, Notepad, Start, Task Manager, and an empty Chrome window. I’m not fully familiar with all the details, but it seems several kernel drivers might be the issue. After a few hours of anti-cheat use on a fresh system, did I interpret this correctly? Edited February 8, 2025 by Tyrano Added image
I should mention that LatencyMon was executed without playing the game today, the EA app wasn’t running, and no games were active. From what I understand, there are no EA services operational at the moment. The repeated issues after several restarts, with nothing from EA running, are causing me concern.
It seems if something was marketed as a power virus, you'd likely avoid it. Uploading a harmless kernel-level anti-cheat is fine, and nothing bad should occur. LatencyMon isn't ideal or trustworthy for this situation—it might flag problems but can't actually identify threats like a rootkit. A real malicious program would always have complete control over your system.
I felt torn about keeping playing after they launched it, wondering why such high access would be necessary and what they intended with it. Gaming isn’t my usual pastime now, so I had to decide between abandoning the game I’d played for over 1500 hours or installing the anti-cheat to see the outcome. I realized the issue might not be just from EA—it could be something deeper. The anti-cheat only activates when the game is running, yet I’m still facing problems an hour later. Is it truly EA’s Anti Cheat? Did it damage my system so badly that a complete reset was needed? Could there be other solutions? And if not, what alternatives exist?
1. why would you *ever* trust what EA says? 2. i urge you to do some research what a kernel mode anti cheat really is (you don't necessarily see it running either btw) in short: good old troubleshooting... testing parts individually, make sure no malicious codes are present on the machine, check settings, system and game specific. in your situation i would actually recommend to start with a full system wipe, including reinstall of windows, preferably 10 cause 11 still seems to have stability issues that 10 just doesn't have.
The setup was operating perfectly, all drivers were current, configurations optimal, temperatures ideal, Cinebench scores high, speeds impressive. Used it for file transfers, light browsing, and installing programs over several days. Played smooth 4K 120 BF1 sessions without any frame drops or overheating, even during longer playthroughs. After a few hours of gaming, EA Anti Cheat triggered noticeable stutters, causing significant kernel-level latency. No changes beyond that point—just settings and performance. I need to identify what caused this issue so I can resolve it and prevent others from facing the same problem.