Fortnite Crashing when loading into Creative Map

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Summary

After today’s update (2025-02-21) players are crashing after attempting to connect to the creative map “Miner Tycoon”, I have received multiple report of older/weaker systems no longer being able to connect to the map, specifically Switch & PS4

It doesn’t seem to occur for every creative map, these players were able to connect to other creative maps and Battle Royale, but every time they go back to Miner Tycoon it crashes them without fail. Prior to today’s update players were able to load in without issue.

Please select what you are reporting on:

Creative

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Stability

Steps to Reproduce

  • Use an older device (Switch & PS4 confirmed to have this issue)
  • Attempt to join the map “Miner Tycoon” (4781-1197-6847)
  • Wait for the “Updating…” loading bar, then the game crashes

Expected Result

Fortnite loads into the creative map “Miner Tycoon”

Observed Result

Fortnite Crashes
Error Code (CE-34878-0)

Platform(s)

Switch, PS4

Island Code

4781-1197-6847

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Additional Notes

Prior to the update these consoles were able to play the map without issue, newer gen consoles such as PS5 and PCs don’t experience this issue.

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hi @SandPidgeon ,
On the Switch Hydra (25th Sept 2024) the updating message occurs at 100% and waits eventually crashing with the Software crashed then Fornite itself crashes and is taken back to the main Nintendo Switch screen mine is Fortnite 34.00,0 . Space available 6.0 GB standard 17.7GB used for Fortnite. New load from scratch,

The only thing I can find for PS 4 is
PS4 Error Code CE-34878-0 – Help & Support | PlayStation

run on Windows 11 Fortnite 34.00 reports a very slow network connection but gets there in the end. In fact, my network is quick at 67MB/s

The Xbox One X is very slow and went back to the lobby 3 times before the game loaded, had to click a yellow Join button twice?. Never seen that before, eventually loaded but very slow to play

The quickest and smoothest is the Samsung Galaxy S10e, three years old, so very low end
but the fastest to load Fortnite 34.00 . A really useful message may be “Preparing Shaders” ,
This does not appear on Switch, just crashes with the error message

Seen this a lot on UE 5, but not UEFN/Fortnite

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Thanks, Jimbo; we’re looking at this.

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FORT-864209 has been created and its status is ‘Unconfirmed’. This is now in a queue to be reproduced and confirmed.

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FYI!

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In the 2 creative games I play (Havoc Hotel 3 and Miner Tycoon) I notice the game temporarily locks up for roughly 20-30 seconds after I hit “Updating 100%”.

My system is Windows 11 Home (10.0.26100), i9-14900KF, 4070TS (driver 32.0.15.7242), 32gb RAM. Fortnite is running in DX11 mode and is installed on a MX500 2TB SSD.

Issue started 02/21/25, after the latest Fortnite update.