How To Stop Epic Games Launcher From Running In The Background

Many players report on Reddit abnormal usage of their CPU when the Epic Games Laucher is left open in the background, without any game being launched. A problem that we take besides seen … and which does not inspire any good.

In idle, the Epic Games Launcher is strangely resources hungry, merely why exactly? // Source: Ballsy Games

Your processor heats up abnormally on the desktop, despite switching to idle? Y'all would do well to manually mute the Epic Games Launcher if it is running in the background. Based on feedback from many users, corroborated by HotHardware and by our own observations, the launcher of Epic Games abnormally demands the processor nether Windows 10, even if no game is launched.

First reported on Reddit by Neoncarbon, happy possessor of an AMD Ryzen vii 5800X, the phenomenon results in a strangely loftier temperature of the CPU on the desktop, when the Epic Games Launcher is running in the background. When the software is cut, this value drops back down to a normal level, in many cases more than ten degrees less. Should this exist seen as a sign of undeclared activity by the launcher? Co-ordinate to the investigations carried out by HotHardware, it could be. Especially since this CPU usage is not observed with other launchers , like Steam or GoG.

Data sent at regular intervals to 22 dissimilar servers …

The specialized site experienced this on one of its test platforms, equipped with a Ryzen ix 5950X (cooled by a h2o-cooling system) and an RTX 3080. With the Epic Games Laucher active , the processor reached 53 degrees in idle (with 2% use of the bit and its 16 cores by Epic's launcher alone). Through the chore manager, it was then possible to watch the Epic Games Launcher use cores and keep some of them running without any game being downloading updates in the background.

It was past using Glasswire, a network traffic monitor, that HotHardware was able to find that the launcherand its associated processes sent data at regular intervals to over 22 different servers. The thing happened when the Epic Games Launcher was open up, minimized, or in the background, but the spikes in information transfers would occur when the launcher reopened.

In all, the specialized site was able to observe the sending of more than 514 KB of data to sure servers over a flow of one 60 minutes. This is 14 times more than the data transmitted in the background by the NVIDIA GeForce Feel software over the same duration, concludes HotHardware, which further discovered that the "EpicWebHelper" process transmitted data to this address: "tracking-website -prod07-ballsy-961842049.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com ". What currently appears to be a form of data collection could be used by Ballsy Games for commercial purposes.

Nosotros contacted the French representatives of Ballsy Games to find out the publisher'south position on these discoveries.

We were also able to find abnormal activity on two processors available to us: an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and an Intel Core i7-7700K. In the starting time case, we noted a temperature of 59.6 degrees in idle, against 46.8 degrees once the Epic Games Store cut. A drop in temperature visible in the screenshots above (with a divergence of only 27 seconds between the two captures). Aforementioned dynamic with the Core i7-7700K, with between 50 and 55 degrees raised when the Epic Games Launcher was active in the groundwork, and only 35 to forty degrees when the latter was manually deactivated.

Source: Frandroid by www.frandroid.com.

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