Users have noticed that the Epic Games Launcher application for launching games loads the computer's processor. Moreover
One Reddit user said thatThe temperature of his AMD Ryzen 7 5800X processor dropped from 50 to 37 degrees Celsius when he closed the Epic Games Launcher. The authors of the Hothardware portal discovered the same behavior. What's interesting is that other gaming store apps, including GOG and Steam, do not behave this way. Journalists suspect that Epic Games Launcher is conducting some additional activity while it is in the background.
Authors Hothardware for the purity of the experimenttested Epic Games Launcher on a system with AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, as well as good liquid cooling. Even with this setup, when the application was running, the CPU heated up to 53 degrees Celsius. Epic Games Launcher was using 2% CPU on a 16-core platform.
In the end, journalists noticed that the application was sending data to over 22 different servers.