Does your PC freeze while you are high with your fav Battle Royale? Does Fortnite keep crashing every time you slam the play button hard? Are you losing in the middle of battles now and then?
Yes, there was a time I had exactly the same complaints because Fortnite used to crash frequently despite my having a high-end graphics card with a decent gaming setup.
I dug out all the gaming forums, guides, and manuals — everywhere in search of a fix. Tried all their methods. Diagnosed my hardware system. Did every possible Check.
Lastly, I found some ways that helped me get rid of the Fortnite crashing issue. I have shared fixes one by one below, exclusively for you.
Let’s have a read to find out the way that can fix your Fortnite from crashing.
Why does your Fortnite keep crashing?
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As Fortnite became an incredibly popular gaming platform, the number of players for its free-to-play mode Royale Battle and Save The World both surged up.
Although Epic Games, the developer of your favorite Fortnite, has some robust server infrastructure, technical bugs sometimes hunt down them, and thus, the games crash. Broken updates, too, cause this issue sometimes.
However, the most common reasons for crashes are–faults and configuration errors on your local PC. These issues can be fixed quickly when you understand the root cause.
The possible reasons that make Fortnite crash on your PC can be various–malfunctioned GPU, faults in temperature controlling sensors, overclocking, missing drivers, and other similar.
So, here is all about how you can fix Fortnite when it keeps crashing repeatedly.
Solution 1: Check For Updates
Often broken software upgrades and windows updates mess up the existing driver installations in your PC. Also, Fortnite releases updates frequently to fix the bugs reported from its previous versions. So, make sure all your software and windows are getting regular updates.
Steps for the fix:
- Go to Windows Settings
- Search for Update and Security and select Check for updates
- Now, for graphics drivers, you need to go to the official websites of NVIDIA and AMD, depending on your card. Check here for any latest updates.
- Lastly, look at Epic games for possible new updates to Fortnite games.
Epic Games uses its Twitter handle to share newsflash about upcoming bug fixes, patches, and version updates for your Fortnite. Keep track of Epic Games’ social media handles.
Move on to the next solution if this doesn’t work for you.
Solution 2: Change The Current Fortnite Graphics Settings
When the graphics settings are misconfigured with the ideal settings required for a smooth gaming experience, this results in crashes.
For this, you need to look into the existing Fortnite graphics settings.
- Open Fortnite and navigate to the Game settings
- Choose Video and reduce Quality by one step.
- Save and see whether the crash appears or not.
Going below Medium settings for Shadows and resolutions serves no purpose because the result will then be unstable.
So, try your different hands-on resolutions, save each time, and set the best suitable resolution. When playing with different resolutions even doesn’t fix the Fortnite crashing issue, you can try troubleshooting BattleEye. I have shared it next.
Solution 3: Uninstall & Reinstall Battleye
BattlEye sometimes conflicts with the existing registry system on your PC. Reinstalling has been shown to resolve the Fortnite crashing issue.
- Steps to reinstall BattlEye:
- Navigate to the Installation directory of Fortnite.
- Move to \Fortnite\FortniteGame\Binaries\Win64\BattleEye
- Run Uninstall_BattlEye.bat
- Reboot your PC
- Now, from the same folder, run Install_BattlEye.bat
Voila! Your Fortnite is no more crashing. Yes, this is one of the commonest fixes for Fortnite crashes frequently.
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Solution 4: Toggle Between The Screen Mode In Fortnite
The full-screen mode is responsible for crashes in an intensive graphics-inducing game like Fortnite.
Try toggling between the Windowed mode and FULLSCREEN mode both when you experience a crash. Play with both of the modes for a while and figure out which one is the culprit.
Steps for the fix:
- Double-click and open FORTNITE.
- Go to Game Settings
- Click on Video.
- Toggle between the modes, select one, and save.
After changing to a particular mode, if you find the crash is no more appearing, leave the game to continue in the current mode. If you still see a crash, as I said, try your hands with a different mode.
Solution 5: Turn Off Timeout Detection And Recovery From The Windows Registry
Registry edits are critical and leave no chances for errors because wrong edits can render your PC to boot loop or OS failures.
The TDR level, or the “Time out detection and Recovery,” is a feature needed for the smooth coordination of GPU and graphics card problems in the Windows OS. But this may create crashes related to Display Drivers for many users.
Steps for the fix:
- Create a Windows Restore Point.
- First, create a backup of your existing registry settings for safety.
- Press Windows logo key + R
- Type Regedit on the dialogue box and hit Enter
- Click File and export
- It will ask you for a location to save the backup File. Click Save.
- Close everything.
Then comes the most important step:
- Press the Windows logo key + R
- , type Regedit, and press enter
- Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers
- Find TdrLevel on the right pane, and select it.
- Double-click TdrLevel and change the value to 0. Press OK.
- Close everything and give your PC a clean restart.
- Try playing Fortnite again.
Solution 6: Reinstall Fortnite
When you have tried every other step shared above, but nothing worked, the last option is to give Fortnite a clean uninstall and reinstall it.
Steps for the fix:
- Open the Epic Games Launcher
- Click UNINSTALL FORTNITE
- Reboot your PC
- Launch the Epic Games Launcher again
- Install FORTNITE again
- Try launching the game again
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Final words
When you are unable to play Fortnite, and it is crashing heavily, instead of worrying over the GPU specs, you always troubleshoot the settings and configurations and update notifications.
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Though graphic hardware plays a significant role in a glitch-free, smooth gaming experience, misconfigured settings and errors in the installation files create more crashing issues than any other. The above-shared methods would help you play Fortnite worry-free; try them one-by-one till your crashes disappear entirely.