Since yesterday I have gotten this error every single time I attempt to install a game.
I have tried:
contacting support
reinstalling the launcher
resetting my nvidia global settings to default
running as administrator
repairing the launcher
deleting webcache_4430
updating my drivers
rolling back my drivers
Having the same issue! I fully reset my PC, fresh installed windows, everything you can think of. It worked for a little while when I physically disconnected my second monitor, but now I can’t even get the launcher to open without crashing.
I mean… atleast i’m not the only one… Yea i got the exact same issue.
The only games that will download are games with like a second launcher like Genshin.
But if i try to download things like Red Dead, Fortnite, GTA, Alan Wake, etc. it just crashes.
Epic launcher crashes when I try to install fortnite. This error shows up and its been happening since yesterday
Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x000000a500000044
We were having this exact issue over and over on his PC, but nothing was solving it, not even reinstalling the OS.
Finally, I realized that the memory addresses in these crash reports were all fairly high address values (like the 0x000000a500000044 in this thread).
In our case at least, turned out it was happening because of a bad RAM stick! Apparently some recent change to the EpicGamesLauncher is putting something in higher memory addresses, and it’s hitting an area of RAM that had gone bad, but previously unnoticed.
Ran MemTest86, and boom, there it was… memory errors.
Pulled the bad stick, and boom, everything works again.