Fortnite: How to Fix Black Screen Crashes

The new season of Fortnite brought a lot of updates. However, there are also many issues that appeared. While this online game works very well for many individuals, there are small numbers of players who might experience black screen crashes once this game loads up.

This issue appeared due to many reasons, such as faulty graphics driver to having problems in Fortnite itself. However, the screen crashes issue seems to be due to the way wherein the latest update has led many files to become harmed or corrupted- stopping the OS from loading the files it needs to run the game.

Reasons

As with lots of software applications, there are lots of possible causes of the issue. To this end, while faulty movie files are the possible reasons, the following represents the complete list of problems:

  • BattlEye faulty
  • Graphics driver issues
  • Faulty movie files (Season 5 only)
  • Windows outdated/errors
  • Registry issues with Windows

Fortnite Errors

It is vital to keep in mind that black screen crashes usually show signs of the graphics. This is the same across the whole spectrum of modern and contemporary computing. If you are not able to get Fortnite working after using the steps mentioned below, there are more specific problems with Windows or the game itself.

Solution

In order to address the underlying problems, there are many steps to walk through.

Uninstall BattlEye

The initial step to follow is to eliminate the BattlEye expansion for the Fortnite game. BattlEye is a 3rd party anti-cheat packaged utilized with PUBG, Fortnite, and other online games to give additional support for the system. It is very vital, but we can simply fix the installation to make that it does not cause further issues. It is easy to install all you need is to follow the steps below:

  • Click Windows and E on the keyboard
  • Browse to "C:/Program Files/Epic Games/Fortnite/FortniteGame/Binaries/Win64/BattlEye"
  • Click "Uninstall_battlEye.bat" and allow the screen to process the command
  • When done, load the Epic Games Launcher
  • Click the "cog" image located at the left portion of the green "Launch" button
  • Then click "Verify"
  • Run the verification process
  • When done, restart the system
  • Upon restarting, you must try loading up Fortnite once more.
  • If it works, then you must think of the issue addressed and solved
  • If not, then you can try other techniques to solve the problem which is available online. You can also ask an expert in Fortnite to help you with this problem.  
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