Failing to update Fortnite

everything has been fine the past few months but suddenly i'm just getting hit with Download Size is 0 with some tracebacks. I'm at a loss, tried re-authing and reinstalling but makes no difference.

I can no longer update nor install Fortnite, could this be a CDN issue?

Ddry-scarlet everything has been fine the past few months but suddenly i'm just getting hit w...

popular-magenta•3/11/25, 12:06 PM

Bro, everyone who uses heroic has to wait until it gets fixed.

dry-scarletOP•3/11/25, 12:07 PM

Ok, however i did not see anyone else mentioning this issue. if anything i was wanting to confirm whether it was just a me issue

popular-magenta•3/11/25, 12:08 PM

I have the same problem, I can't update the fortnite.

dry-scarletOP•3/11/25, 12:10 PM

Sweet, honestly just knowing that relieves a bit of my stress

implicit-coffee•3/11/25, 12:14 PM

Glad it's not just me, though I'm not getting an error message. Just a 'processing files' flash, and no update. Launching gives me the 'an update is required to continue' screen. Force update does nothing, verify and repair does nothing.

Iimplicit-coffee Glad it's not just me, though I'm not getting an error message. Just a 'processi...

popular-magenta•3/11/25, 12:15 PM

Yeah, bro, I got the same thing. All I can do is wait.

implicit-coffee•3/11/25, 12:17 PM

at least it's not us doing something wrong, and it seems to be an actual issue

Iimplicit-coffee at least it's not us doing something wrong, and it seems to be an actual issue �...

dry-scarletOP•3/11/25, 12:18 PM

yeah that's what was driving me nuts for an hour. glad I reached out

verbal-lime•3/11/25, 2:32 PM

i have the same issue btw if that helps

wet-aqua•3/11/25, 2:40 PM

same here

ordinary-sapphire•3/11/25, 4:10 PM

man, the one day im free too

awake-maroon•3/11/25, 5:36 PM

have you tried forcing an update? game details page > 3-dots menu > force update

wet-aqua•3/11/25, 5:36 PM

yes

awake-maroon•3/11/25, 5:37 PM

from what I see in the legendary discord it's an issue with legendary, not with heroic, I don't know if something changed on epic's side and maybe legendary needs an update to handle that

popular-magenta•3/11/25, 5:50 PM

this is already funny i can't update the game all day

instant-harlequin•3/11/25, 5:56 PM

dual-salmon•3/11/25, 6:04 PM

Same here everyone, i tried Force Updating and it didnt worked. Im just gonna use Epic launcher and detect my fortnite Location. Update and continue there until fix. Thanks for all the devs working on it.

dry-scarletOP•3/11/25, 7:43 PM

update should be available soon, a temp fix has been made and dev is alerted. Epic changed the install tags for fortnite

For those who want it back up and working manually through Legendary with the temp fix, here's what you can do:

Drop this file in your legendary

.config/legendary/tmp

.config/legendary/tmp

folder (For window's users

C:/users/<yourname>/.config/legendary/tmp

C:/users/<yourname>/.config/legendary/tmp

)
and run

legendary install Fortnite --reset-sdl

legendary install Fortnite --reset-sdl

. choose your addon tags like normal

bear in mind .tmp file will have to be replaced each time you need to update until update has been rolled out

Fortnite.json2.86KB

dry-scarletOP•3/11/25, 7:44 PM

if it's not wanting to cooperate, delete the .resume file in the /tmp folder. if still not wanting to cooperate, uninstall and start from scratch

dry-scarletOP•3/11/25, 7:47 PM

Alphetix in the Legendary discord server put together this file with updated tags

Ddry-scarlet update should be available soon, a temp fix has been made and dev is alerted. Ep...

worthy-azure•3/11/25, 8:07 PM

how do you run

legendary install Fortnite --reset-sdl

legendary install Fortnite --reset-sdl

on windows?

dry-scarletOP•3/11/25, 8:08 PM

You'll need legendary, and to run it in cmd
edit: apologies renegade, but i'm not sure if i have the fortitude to explain how to use cmd, there's plenty of tutorials around

Aawake-maroon from what I see in the legendary discord it's an issue with legendary, not with ...

dry-scarletOP•3/11/25, 8:10 PM

Yeah, that's exactly what happened

Ddry-scarlet update should be available soon, a temp fix has been made and dev is alerted. Ep...

dangerous-fuchsia•3/11/25, 8:20 PM

Hm, it seems on my end I don't have the .config folder lol

dangerous-fuchsia•3/11/25, 8:22 PM

oops, found it. it was in the same folder heroic was installed.

worthy-azure•3/11/25, 8:30 PM

does that work?

full-green•3/11/25, 8:55 PM

joined to say I'm having the same issue since updating the client

full-green•3/11/25, 8:55 PM

I use this so I'm not restricted by Epic's arbitrary download speeds

dry-scarlet•3/11/25, 9:05 PM

the two solutions are:

wait for legendary to update
Do the above (if you cant do this, you'll just have to wait then)

awake-maroon•3/11/25, 10:21 PM

if i uninstalled fortnite from heroic and reinstalled on epic can i just import the game into heroic and it'll work fine?

Ddry-scarlet update should be available soon, a temp fix has been made and dev is alerted. Ep...

dangerous-fuchsia•3/12/25, 2:45 AM

cant find the direction it says it doesnt exists

dry-scarlet•3/12/25, 2:47 AM

what path did you use

dangerous-fuchsia•3/12/25, 2:48 AM

C:/users/<yourname>/.config/legendary/tmp

that one

dangerous-fuchsia•3/12/25, 2:48 AM

i placed my name and it didnt work

dry-scarlet•3/12/25, 2:49 AM

replace <yourname> with your user name.....

dry-scarlet•3/12/25, 2:49 AM

go to your user dir and look for .config then

dangerous-fuchsia•3/12/25, 2:50 AM

ingame username?

dry-scarlet•3/12/25, 2:50 AM

you windows user name

dangerous-fuchsia•3/12/25, 2:50 AM

ah let me see wich is it

dangerous-fuchsia•3/12/25, 2:51 AM

maybe its because its on spanish?

dangerous-fuchsia•3/12/25, 2:51 AM

is there any other way to look for the .config folder?

dangerous-fuchsia•3/12/25, 2:54 AM

nope the folder is not there

dangerous-fuchsia•3/12/25, 2:54 AM

either

dangerous-fuchsia•3/12/25, 2:55 AM

help please?

dangerous-fuchsia•3/12/25, 2:57 AM

ill just wait then

dry-scarlet•3/12/25, 3:05 AM

its probably in the heroic directory tbh since you are using heroic which manages its own legendary install

dry-scarlet•3/12/25, 3:05 AM

i don thave windows so i cant really tell you where that is, but probably in the heroic config dir

nursing-lime•3/12/25, 5:10 AM

wow. It looks like Heroic specifies

--skip-sdl

--skip-sdl

when calling Legendary, so even if you put the file in the right folder, Heroic still won't update Fortnite.

Even after finding the right place of 'tmp' and legendary.exe, manually running it complains about missing auth, I assume due to the custom config location.

Guess I have to use the native Epic launcher today

hurt-tomato•3/12/25, 5:37 AM

Heroic tells Legendary to use a different config directory so that it doesn't conflict with default Legendary installs.

First, drop the

Fortnite.json

Fortnite.json

in the correct location as listed above. On Windows with Heroic, Heroic's Legendary config is located at

%appdata%/heroic/legendaryConfig/legendary

%appdata%/heroic/legendaryConfig/legendary

. You can copy-and-paste this into the Windows File Explorer's address bar and it'll take you to the right location.

Next, run legendary:

Open a command prompt window. This should be command prompt, not Windows Terminal or Powershell.

Copy and paste

cd %localappdata%\Programs\heroic\resources\app.asar.unpacked\build\bin\x64\win32

cd %localappdata%\Programs\heroic\resources\app.asar.unpacked\build\bin\x64\win32

. You can paste by right-clicking. This brings us to where Heroic's Legendary exe is downloaded to.

Copy and paste

SET "LEGENDARY_CONFIG_PATH=%APPDATA%\heroic\legendaryConfig\legendary"

SET "LEGENDARY_CONFIG_PATH=%APPDATA%\heroic\legendaryConfig\legendary"

. You can paste by right-clicking. This tells Legendary to use Heroic's legendary config location instead of the default.

Run

.\legendary.exe install Fortnite --reset-sdl

.\legendary.exe install Fortnite --reset-sdl

Run Fortnite

If Fortnite does not run, try force-reinstalling:

.\legendary.exe install Fortnite --reset-sdl --repair-and-update --force

.\legendary.exe install Fortnite --reset-sdl --repair-and-update --force

On both computers I ran this on, doing a reinstall fixed the issue and made Fortnite launch properly.

Edit: modified using the advice below to be significantly more concise. thank you!

CommandMC•3/12/25, 8:58 AM

I'm not sure how to tell Legendary where its config folder is. Proabably an environment variable I'm not familiar with

Correct:

SET "LEGENDARY_CONFIG_PATH=%APPDATA%\heroic\legendaryConfig\legendary"

SET "LEGENDARY_CONFIG_PATH=%APPDATA%\heroic\legendaryConfig\legendary"

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