Fortnite update required?

Since earlier I have had the problem that the error message (An Update is required to continue. Please restart Fortnite to download the latest patch.) Appears when starting Fortnite. I already verified the game in the Epic Games Launcher, but it didn't work.

Even if it was awkward, personally i would reinstall the game. That should actually fix the problem.

Beautiful evening!

Yeah, I'll do it overnight tonight.

Lawenrebwar

lawenrebwar

Old thread, I know, but people are still running into this problem of Fortnite not starting and saying it needs an update (which it doesn't really need) and looking for a solution… There seem to be a number of things that cause this, with most saying to uninstall and reinstall Fortnite and the Easy Anti-Cheat program and that is the fix, and others saying they just reinstalled DirectX and that worked… But those solutions don't work for a lot of people… The 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 system files on startup, which includes DLL's that Forrnite needs, and marks them as "trusted", so Fortnite sees there's all there and starts with no problem. You can easily see if "secure boot" is enabled on your machine by typing "System Information" in the search field on 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 for me. 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".

I tried the method, with the BIOS - secure boot, but it doesnt work as well, I even had it set as "enabled" and didnt needed to set it as "enabled", so i dont know the solution for this. All it does is just load up and show me the error