Epic Games Store Partially Fixes Launcher Issue

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In case you missed it, there had recently been some chatter online about the Epic Games Store launcher raising system temperatures and using up a ton of CPU resources on PC in some cases. While the exact cause isn't publicly known, many folks weighed in on Reddit and the like to express how the digital storefront's launcher was causing significant jumps on their rigs, and Epic Games has since then released a hotfix that seems to resolve the issue -- for now.

"Looked at mine, 5900x - 64C while just browsing youtube... closed epic games launcher, drops 20 degrees," Reddit user ZeroZelath shared in the comments of a lengthy Reddit post about the issue. "5600x 9-10% cpu load by EGL," Reddit user ebobot added. "I don't know why..."



As noted above, Epic Games appears to have largely resolved the issue with a hotfix, though as Epic Games' Sergiy Galyonkin notes above, it is "not a full solution." Given that the company's engineers are aware of and working on the problem, however, it seems like one of those things that will be firmly fixed sooner rather than later.

The Epic Games Store is, as the name indicates, the digital PC storefront from Epic Games that launched in the wake of Fortnite's incredible success. Notably, the storefront has been giving away tons of free video games on the platform every week since it first launched.

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Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/epic-games-store-launcher-bug-hotfix/

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AustinPosted:

Always has been buggy IMO

AnimePosted:

Their launcher always is kind of laggy.

GroguPosted:

too interested in the money to even bother thinking about fixing the buggy launcher

NickPosted:

The epic games launcher is such a buggy launger. It's a shame that most of the popular games come via Epic Games.
Hopefully one day they stop caring about just the money, and start caring about productivity.

0101010101010101Posted:

The epic games launcher is always a nightmare and never seems to get better