An Update is Required to Continue Please Restart Fortnite Problem - Solved !!
Hello everyone, if you ended up in my blog I am really glad that you did. I'll make sure not to disappoint. So are you having this weird problem when you are trying to play Fortnite? Every time you start the game and you see a message "an update is required to continue. Please restart Fortnite to download the latest patch". Well yeah, I have faced this problem twice now so I am sure its not me alone. Many of you can have this problem. So let's get straight to the solution how you can fix it -
1) Verify Fortnite files. I am sure you know how to do it. But in case you don't know, just go to your Epic Library and click on the gear symbol beside Fortnite launch bar and you'll see the option verify. Click there and wait till it gets completed and then restart the game and you'll see it's gone.
A recent image of epic games from where you can verify Fortnite files
2) Log out from epic, restart your computer and log in again. Restart the game and it'll go away. Make sure you have the recent GPU driver installed. AMD users, be careful. Most of the AMD GPU users face a little problem running this game sometimes. Also if you see an epic update is available, update it and then run the game.
3) If those steps don't work, then I am afraid you have to uninstall it sadly. Reinstalling the game will surely fix the issue. If it's an in-game problem, then you can check the game forums or other Reddit forums where people already going to post thousands of threads, so all you have to do is wait for epic's quick patch. And if you see it's just you having this problem, reinstall the game. And this time make it in a different folder, if possible, different drive just in case.
This problem isn't that much of a big one but still, it can be very irritating. Hope you find this helpful. Thanks for reading my blog.
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Thank you very much this helped me a lot!! <3
ReplyDeletethere isnt three dots
ReplyDeleteis your problem solved?
DeleteIt still not working
ReplyDeletecuz i did everything u said and it didint work so i reinstalled it and nothing happend :(
Hii, if reinstalling the game not working, then maybe you have problem in your PC like graphics driver problem or something like that. Because, in-game problems usually get solved when you verify the files or reinstall the game unless the problem is coming from Epic Games. If the problem occurred by the newest update and a lot of people facing the problem, then wait for Epic Games when they reply with a new patch to fix it. But also you can try reinstalling the game in another folder or another drive and see if that works. If nothing works, then the problem is in your PC not in the game.
Deletei have the same problem. im trying to reinstall fortnite now hopefuly that will work. Its the first time this has happend to me
DeleteI get this error occasionally, I play on Shadow, a game cloud platform and I've noticed a battleye loading issue before it happens - maybe something gets corrupted?
ReplyDeleteI then get into a loop of "Fortnite needs to Update, then it verifies, then it repeats"
The only fix I have found, painful though it is, is to uninstall Fortnite and the Epic Games launcher, and reinstall both.
On I am Android device and it needs a update and my device doesn't support Fortnite I don't know what to do
ReplyDeleteIf you are device doesn't support it, then look for something that your device support, pubg or freefire would be good choice.
DeleteThe solution in my case was to go into the BIOS and enable "secure boot". If the computer is not in "secure boot" mode on startup, the game thinks the files are "untrusted" and will not recognize them, that's why it keeps asking for an update. "Secure Boot" mode verifies the files on startup, and marks them as "trusted", so Fortnite sees there's all there and starts with no problem.
ReplyDeleteYou can easily see if "secure boot" is enabled on your machine by typing "System Information" in the search field of the task bar. On the page that comes up, look for "secure boot" and ensure it doesn't say "off". If it does, you need to go into your EUFI BIOS and click on the boot tab, disable CMS, which will make "secure boot" show so you can enable it, then save and exit, and try Fornight again once the machine has rebooted using "secure boot" mode.
After spending 8 hours working on this for 2 days in a row, that's what finally fixed it. Apparently something turned it off when I was in the BIOS overclocking the CPU and Memory, despite never touching the setting for "secure boot" itself.
So, make sure "secure boot" is turned on, otherwise it will constantly ask for an update and will never run because it doesn't trust the files, and it's "secure boot" that marks the files as "trusted".