
While restarting your router, pc, or Epic Games launcher are the first steps you should take to fix the slow download speed issue, there are also more complex ways to increase Epic Games Launcher download speed. Have fun and Happy Downloading - If you like content like this, feel free to subscribe / follow my blog, it's free updates by email or other options.Many things can contribute to slow download speed on the Epic Games Launcher while downloading games like Fortnite, GTA V, Rocket League, or any other games. After this reboot, try to start the Game Download again, it should be much faster now.

After that you need to be sure the Epic Gamelauncher is completely terminated. In File-Properties set it to read only so the Epic game Launcher can't override it to default. Here you should find a file named Engine.ini - Edit it with your text editor of choice (visual studio code, notepad++, vim, whatever) ^.^ copy and paste following content into the file:Īfter that, save the File and do a quick right-click on it. The %username% is the Folder of your current User, Just copy and paste the whole string as it is in a Windows Explorer ( Win+E) Adress bar and you should see the directory. So, to fix the slow Download speed in the Epic Game Launcher you need to open this Directory: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\EpicGamesLauncher\Saved\Config\Windows\ Those changes helped to improve my download from a slow 100-500 kb/s to 450 - 600 Mbit/s.

Actually it's a simple edit of a Config file to give the slow Epic Game Launcher different Timeout and retry Settings. (Spellbreak, btw.) Unfortunately even I have a 1G Line, it only dripped in with about 100-500 kb/s and would take several hours to complete.īut I rememebered that there was a fix in the past for the Epic Game Launcher having slow download speed that actually worked.

Yesterday I wanted to install a Game from Epic Game Launcher in Windows.
