It is very uncomfortable that you find yourself playing Fortnite on your computer and suddenly the game closes for no apparent reason. In this way, in the following article we will show you the possible failures of this problem and what you can do to solve it.
Why is Fortnite crashing on my Windows or Mac PC? – Solution
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- Common questions when Fortnite crashes
- How to fix Fortnite problems on my PC
- Check game files
- Try to open the Epic Games Launcher as an administrator
- Update all video card drivers
- Disable background apps
- Search for updates
- Clear the launcher cache
Common questions when Fortnite crashes
The most common questions you will ask yourself are: Why does the game crash? Do I have a good PC? Is it compatible with my computer? Are there games similar to Fortnite ?, among others. Next, we will show you a series of solutions if your game crashes, closes suddenly or has another type of problem.
How to fix Fortnite problems on my PC
Many people play Fortnite on a computer for convenience, it usually fails on PC because this type of problem does not happen on console. Given this, the first thing you should do is uninstall the program and reinstall it on your computer . If this alternative does not solve the problems, we recommend the following:
Check game files
If the game keeps crashing for you, and you don’t know what to do, you also don’t know how to fix it quickly. Simply to avoid this annoying inconvenience you must follow the following steps:
- close the fortnite
- Open the Epic Games Launcher launcher
- Go to the game library
- Select the Fortnite game and select the points (…)
- A menu will be displayed and you must click on verify
What will happen immediately is that it will not let us access the game until it automatically verifies all the game files, this process may take a few minutes. This procedure is equivalent to cleaning the game .
If you did the procedure described above and it doesn’t work, you can also modify files in the Appdata folder , for which you must follow these steps:
- Go to your computer’s start menu and type %Local App Data%.
- Find the Fortnite Game folder and double click.
- Open the Saved folder.
- Click on the file Config.
- Open the Game User Serting folder
- Select the Windows Client document
- A TXT containing game tickets will appear.
- You must go to the last section of the TXT specifically to bPreferD3D12InGame= True, change the word True to False and save the changes.
Try to open the Epic Games Launcher as an administrator
- Right click on the Epic Games logo.
- Select the properties option.
- In the Direct Access box, you must clickon the advanced options button.
- Check the box run as administrator, clicking accept, apply and accept.
Update all video card drivers
- Head over to the Epic Game website.
- Look for the video card manufacturers’ pages.
- Find out what type of driver your computer uses. To know this we must search for device managerin startup, a list will appear, select display adapters and you will see the type of driver you are using.
Once identified, you must enter the Epic Game page and click on the link to the official controller page.
- Download the drivers from themanufacturer’s official website.
- Run Driver as administrator and install.
- Log in with your Gmail or Facebook account, if you don’t have one you can create a Gmail account.
- Download and install.
Disable background apps
- Look for Run on the Windows start icon.
- Type in the window run the command msconfig.
- The system configuration window will appear, in which you must uncheck the option load startup items.
- Click apply, accept and restart the computer.
Search for updates
In theory , on a computer with internet , game updates should be done automatically, if this does not happen you should do the following:
- Start the launcher on your computer.
- Select the settings option.
- Check the Allow automatic updatesbox .
Clear the launcher cache
This must be done when the Launcher starts with a black screen and does not allow you to execute any of the options , if this happens to you we advise you to do the following:
- Close the launcher window and also the launcher icon.
- Press the Windows start key together with the R, so that the run window appears.
- Type %Appdata% and press OK.
- Go to the Appdata path and select the Local folder.
- Find the Epic Game Launcher directory.
- Inside the directory, click the Savet folder.
- Go to the Web Cache folder.
- Delete the Web Cache folder by pressing Shift + Delete.
- Run the launcher again and problem solved.