Haven't played in about a year or so, want to pick it up cause my friend has it but the last time I heard about it, the anti-cheat was sort of invasive and ran even on PC startup, and when the game was closed. Is it still like this?

*Do this at your own risk, I am not responsible if anything goes wrong. To my knowledge this should be safe and most people who have performance issues disable it anyways. I am simply sharing what worked for me.* Try disabling High Precisi...