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Game won't start after updating launcher - Heroic Games Launcher
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2mo ago
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verbal-lime
Game won't start after updating launcher
windows
✅
solved
After updating the Heroric Games Launcher Fortnite wont start
, I already checked the game
's files
, relogged with epic and restarted my pc
.
Solution
Add
USE_FAKE_EPIC_EXE=0
USE_FAKE_EPIC_EXE=0
to the environment variables for the game
The game does not like a change we made
, but that change fixes some other games
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