Fortnite Consistently Crashes In Live Edit... And Any Other Mode

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Summary

I have been crashing consistently since this season, Chapter 6 Season 3 (Super), started, but recently Windows has been showing me the pictured error every time the game shuts down, Anti-Cheat Error 0xEAC02009. I have verified files, completely uninstalled and reinstalled both UEFN and Fortnite, and done a few other things within the files themselves as shown in this tweet: https://x.com/shawkab/status/1951751526088929538 . Nothing has fixed the issue for me.

My PC Specs are:
Processor Intel(R) Coreā„¢ i9-14900KF (3.20 GHz)
Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.8 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Live Edit

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Start Fortnite
  2. Stay in the lobby for a short period of time or load into a session.
  3. Crash on the loading screen or crash shortly after loading in.

Expected Result

  1. Start Fortnite.
  2. Play Fortnite or Live Edit as normal.

Observed Result

  1. Start Fortnite
  2. Crash within 5 minutes of starting the game.

Platform(s)

PC

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FORT-946992 has been created and its status is ā€˜Unconfirmedā€™. This is now in a queue to be reproduced and confirmed.

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I started getting this same error during UEFN / FN sessions. It never happened before today and did not happen if I was playing FN with UEFN not open. Happened twice to me while working in UEFN with FN running. FN would close out and I would see this error window. UEFN stayed open and FN showed as still running in the Epic launcher. I would need to exit out of UEFN and then relaunch both FN and UEFN to get back to work.

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Iā€™ve been experiencing the same issue with Easy Anti-Cheat (error 0xEAC02009). Hereā€™s everything Iā€™ve tried to fix it so far ā€” unfortunately, nothing has worked.

:wrench: Goal:

Fix the Internal anti-cheat error (0xEAC02009) when launching Fortnite.

:test_tube: Actions taken:

  1. Updated PowerShell to version 7.5.2.
  2. Ran SFC scan: no integrity violations detected.
  3. Ran DISM restore health: completed successfully.
  4. Deleted the EasyAntiCheat_EOS service via sc delete.
  5. Manually deleted leftover directories:
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyAntiCheat_EOS
  • C:\Program Files\Epic Games\Fortnite\FortniteGame\Binaries\Win64\EasyAntiCheat
  1. Cleaned up the registry by removing the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EasyAntiCheat_EOS key.
  2. Manually reinstalled EasyAntiCheat:
  • Attempted via EasyAntiCheat_EOS_Setup.exe
  • Attempted via sc create using the correct binPath.
  1. Created the service manually with proper syntax.
  2. Tried to start the service, but it always returned STOPPED, with error code 87 (0x57) or ā€œfile not foundā€.
  3. Verified Fortnite via Epic Games Launcher.

:cross_mark: Result:

All steps completed successfully, but the error 0xEAC02009 still occurs when launching Fortnite.