Every time I go to launch fortnite, it crashes- why and how to fix?

I play fortnite on my MacBook air and have all the proper ramifications to play on it. The easiest answer here would to just buy a gaming laptop and play on there but I dont have the ability to do that right now. So, I came here to ask this question since I cant find answers anywhere else. I was playing fortnite for one day with friends and everything was working fine. The next day I loaded up fortnite and was in the lobby, playing around with color blind setting since the colors were a bit too bright and suddenly the game crashed. I tried to open the game again but the loading screen would come up then it immediately crashed and has been doing that for the past three days. I have no idea how to fix this even after uninstalling the game and launcher over and over again and sending a crash report. Thank you in advance for any help!

I am having the same issue, pretty much verbatim, but on a windows system. It’s a pretty low end PC because its old, but prior to the V3.3 update for Fortnite, I was running the game on low settings without any issues. after downloading the update, the game has crashed on startup. The launcher loads like normal, but when I click ‘launch’, the initial load screen for the game pops up for a few seconds and then crashes. It generates a crash report, but I haven’t received a response and its been about 5 days. I too have uninstalled and reinstalled just about everything I can related to the game, but nothing helps. Figured I post here to see if it gets more attention.

I’m having the same problem on a new iMac. It also seemed to begin shortly after playing with the color blind mode.

I had exactly the same issue and just found a way to solve it. Follow these steps:

  1. Go to Finder and browse to your Library folder
  2. Find the folder ‘Application Support’ and in this folder find the folder named ‘Epic’
  3. Then browse to ‘FortniteGame’ and then to ‘Saved’
  4. Delete the following file, it contains your saved settings: FortniteGame_SF_METAL_SM5.upipelinecache
  5. Restart Fortnite

PS. The library folder will be hidden on most systems, toggle it unhidden in settings.

I have the same issue but dont have an epic folder in ‘application support’ but did find a FortniteGame_SF_METAL_SM5.metallib and Global_SF_Metal_SM5.metallib in Users/Shared/Epic Games/fortnite/fortniteGame/content although deleting FortniteGame_SF_METAL_SM5.metallib just causes the game to crash faster.

I have the same issue but dont have an epic folder in ‘application support’ but did find a FortniteGame_SF_METAL_SM5.metallib and Global_SF_Metal_SM5.metallib in Users/Shared/Epic Games/fortnite/fortniteGame/content although deleting FortniteGame_SF_METAL_SM5.metallib just causes the game to crash faster.