Epic Games Launcher Gets Hotfix for High CPU Usage

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The Epic Games Launcher has been criticized over the past few days for using a nonsensical amount of CPU resources and raising idle temperatures to a glaring degree, but luckily, the controversy got bad enough to convince its parent company to take a serious look at what is purportedly a simple bug. Following a few days of investigation, director of publishing strategy Sergiy Galyonkin has confirmed that Epic has identified the problem and is pushing out a hotfix to users that should alleviate the issue to some extent.



“The hotfix is live now (11.0.2),” Galyonkin confirmed in a tweet sent out this afternoon. “It’s not a full solution, but things should improve.”



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[Grimlakin]

Funny or sad you choose but now I only use the epic launcher when I want to download a free game or play a game.i have through it. Any other time I close it completely thanks to this.

 

[Grimlakin]

I am.starting to wonder if they aren't doing some form of distributed computing to alleviate their own server loads.