- I use Aster to play 2 instances of fortnite (one for me, one for my daughter) on my PC
I always launch Fortnite with the .exe called: "FortniteClient-Win64-Shipping_EAC.exe"
It used to work fine, but from time to time (and with no apparent reason to me) BE version started instead, thus preventing 2 instances to be launched at the same time
I tried ALL the workarounds I found on the internet with no luck, but, as I said, usually EAC version worked fine and let me play
I double click on the above mentioned exe
The EAC version appears to start (the fortnite spash screen appears), and in the process details I see both easyanticheat.exe and FortniteClient-Win64-Shipping_EAC.exe running
After few seconds, both these processes close (with no apparent reason) and FortniteClient-Win64-Shipping_BE.exe starts instead
I tried:
- blocking FortniteClient-Win64-Shipping_BE.exe from running with gpedit (no luck since it's not the user starting it but another app calling it)
removing easyanticheat and re-installing it (nothing changed)
uninstalling battle-eye (no luck, it asks to re-install it when FortniteClient-Win64-Shipping_BE.exe starts and if I say no nothing will start)
deleting the easyanticheat folder from fortnite and having epic to re-download it, then re-installed it (nothing changed)
renaming FortniteClient-Win64-Shipping_BE.exe to FortniteClient-Win64-Shipping_EAC.exe (this seemingly works since Fortnite loads but then it won't let me go online since easyanticheat.exe process didn't start correctly)
uninstalling the full Fortnite and installing it again (re-downloading the whole data) (nothing changed)
updating my GPU drivers (nothing changed)
closing any anti-virus and anti-malware program (nothing changed)
Any further hint would be more than welcome, at least to understand WHY it suddenly stopped working (ps no update was done to Fortnite between when it used to work, 2 days ago, and yesterday).