[Solved need Nvidia 581.80 driver] Battle Royal Fortnite PC 39.11 patch

Jimbohalo10 · December 21, 2025, 9:01pm

For the Nvidia GTX 10XX series, Mine is the GTX 1050 Ti

The Windows 10/11 PC must be updated with the driver mentioned above, or a freeze will occur with the message “Connecting…”.

Open PC Fortnite 39.11 with the new patch Today (message UPDATE 59k). Entering Battle Royale (BR) opens the freezes. Nintendo carries on

This 581.80 WHL MS approved, if you load 591.59 released on 18th December same day as Fortnite 39.11 you may have a problem

Creative

Stability

BR working on my PC as in 39.10 before 39.11 update. Just like NS1 Console

PC Frozen

PC Windows 11 25H2

Fails on PC frozen on any Island. See Fortnite Log below

Jimbohalo10 · December 21, 2025, 9:06pm

This is the log recovered after restarting PC. Due to freezing PC some data may have been lost

Some sort of patch occurred and now BR is down for my PC was working Fine in 39.10.

Switched to DirectX 11 drivers -d3d11 , SM5 no change set High Texture still no change

using 32GB page file

Deleted C:/Users/jimgi/AppData/Local/FortniteGame before reloading from EPGL

Reload uninstall/ Install Fortnite/UEFN.

More upset about Fortnite Creative not working than BR