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afraid-scarlet
Fortnite not updating via Heroic
It says there's an update available for fortnite but it doesn't progress, it's just stuck at 0% with the graph being static.
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afraid-scarlet•17mo ago
Did you sync with epic or did you import the game?
afraid-scarletOP•17mo ago
I did tick the "Sync with Epic Games" box
if that's what you mean
afraid-scarlet•17mo ago
Yeah that's what I mean. Can you post your heroic log? #:pushpin: Read Me First | Frequently Asked Questions
afraid-scarletOP•17mo ago
afraid-scarletOP•17mo ago
Hope i copied the correct one.
afraid-scarlet•17mo ago
you did
might try clearing the heroic cache
This file contains the update log:
C:\Users\Georg\AppData\Roaming\heroic\GamesConfig\Fortnite.log
As you can see in the logs, Heroic (or Legendary rather) does indeed think the game is outdated:
(02:02:45) DEBUG: [Legendary]: Update is available for Fortnite: ++Fortnite+Release-28.10-CL-30835064-Windows != ++Fortnite+Release-28.20-CL-31165234-Windowsafraid-scarletOP•17mo ago
Already done that, thanks.
Should I send that too?
Yup
afraid-scarletOP•17mo ago
Ah, edge cases, fun
You've installed the game using the EGL, but are now updating it using Heroic. Fortnite features selective downloads, a way to select extra components of a game to be downloaded if you want them.
Legendary, the command-line program we use to do everything Epic-related, can't (or at least doesn't) know which of these tags you selected when installing the game, so it prompts you to enter them... except you can't do that, since Heroic's running those commands
I guess it'd be fine for us to pass
--skip-sdl (to use the "required" install tags when this case happens) to the update prompt, that might not always be what the user wants, but at least it avoids this deadlockafraid-scarletOP•17mo ago
I installed using Heroic...
So I should use --skip-sdl? Sorry I got a little confused.
Hmm, interesting
Something made Legendary forget about your SDL choices then
afraid-scarletOP•17mo ago
Well i did format my pc a few days ago.
Could that be the cause?
(and cause it to go into repair mode; are you sure you didn't import the game?)
afraid-scarletOP•17mo ago
I did it import it after reinstalling windows but it was installed using Heroic Games.
Right, importing the game might have the same effect (of Legendary not knowing your SDL choices)
afraid-scarletOP•17mo ago
I see. I'm going to try to reinstall Fortnite via Heroic again and see if it fixes it self for the next update.
I'll have to look that up
In the meantime, you can open up a command prompt and run the following two commands to resolve the issue:
(to clarify, the commands there are the same Heroic runs, just with the extra
--skip-sdl flag added to skip the prompt)
I'll have to look that upYup, seems like imports don't set any SDL data either (I mean, how would they?). So the above still applies, and the commands I've sent should still resolve the issue