Fortnite: The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142).Click OK to close the app...

I'm getting this error when attempting to launch Fortnite from Heroic games launcher. Here's my log: Launching "Fortnite" (legendary) Native? Yes Installed in: C:\Users\josh\Games\Heroic\Fortnite System Info: CPU: 16x 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz Memory: 34.2 GB (used: 9.02 GB) GPUs: GPU 0: Name: NVIDIA Corporation GA107BM [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] IDs: D=25e0 V=10de SD=3e8a SV=17aa Driver: 546.65 OS: Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.22631 (win32) The current system is not a Steam Deck We are not running inside a Flatpak container Software Versions: Heroic: 2.12.0 Vegapunk Legendary: 0.20.34 Direct Intervention gogdl: 0.7.3 Nile: 1.0.0 Jonathan Joestar Game Settings: { "autoInstallDxvk": true, "autoInstallVkd3d": false, "preferSystemLibs": false, "enableEsync": true, "enableFsync": false, "nvidiaPrime": false, "enviromentOptions": [], "wrapperOptions": [], "showFps": false, "useGameMode": false, "language": "" } Game launched at: Sat Jan 20 2024 09:07:09 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) Launch Command: HEROIC_APP_NAME=Fortnite HEROIC_APP_RUNNER=legendary HEROIC_APP_SOURCE=epic C:\Users\josh\AppData\Local\Programs\heroic\resources\app.asar.unpacked\build\bin\win32\legendary launch Fortnite --language en Game Log: [cli] INFO: Logging in... [Core] INFO: Trying to re-use existing login session... [cli] INFO: Checking for updates... [Core] INFO: Getting authentication token... [cli] INFO: Launching Fortnite... ============= End of game logs =============
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national-gold
national-gold17mo ago
there are many google results about fixing that error code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZb0DcHmNRc have you tried any of them? I can't say they will work cause I haven't tried myself, but seems to be a known issue with fornite (and other apps on windows)
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statutory-emerald
statutory-emeraldOP17mo ago
Yeah, I've tried that. Even did sfc /scannow, ran dism.exe, chkdsk, etc. gonna see if it works with the regular epic games launcher

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