Epic Games Launcher is The Worst Application On My System

General Feedback & Requests
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I’m an Unreal Dev. I also sometimes play games on the epic store. I love Unreal Engine, but I loathe having to interact with the Launcher. I’m working on an M1Max MacBook Pro with 64GB ram. Every single click in the launcher is liable to take 1-5 minutes to respond, whether its loading my games library, unreal engine library, or clicking on any other tab. I find myself avoiding tasks that require me to go through the launcher - its just such a pain and a bottleneck on an otherwise blazing fast computer.

The launcher’s responsiveness reminds me of Windows 3.1. Back in the day, I gained a great tolerance and patience for working with slow computers because they were all slow. Working in a game engine requires great patience for so many reasons. But nowadays why should it take me 5 minutes just to open a project, or load the engine, or see my marketplace library? I could go on…

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The performance is really bad.
I start my projects only through the file explorer.

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It is pretty awful. The Engine section could be loads better and more responsive and the Epic Games store side needs lots of work with user reviews and maybe forums for the different games.

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It’s in the seconds range, you’ll live… Could it use some optimization? Sure…

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This differs massively on the amount of content. With several 100 asset packs and 100s of games it is slower.

I recommend using the paging with less entries.

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It is so bad wtf devs you can do better come on guys

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I agree with OP. We all know that “EPIC GAMES” can figure out how to speed up their interface, this is one talented company and some of the brains behind it are incredible. I see this post is from 2022, 1 year ago. Sometimes it will load rather quickly, but most times a click = 5 or 10+seconds of load time. I’d rather close the app and open projects from my desktop. If I didn’t have to open the app, I think I’d skip it entirely until epic can get a fix. But, if the load times were quick, just like we expect games to be, then I’d think I would enjoy sifting through their warehouse of games and UE assets. Wouldn’t they make more sales if folks could navigate their products faster, adding multiple games to shopping carts, checking out with a click using these already verified accounts? Just saying, it’s a big game market and they are tapped into. I can’t wait to see #EpicGames interface to be as good or better than Steam does it. I see so much potential in the app.

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