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