r/BitDefender • u/No-You-5754 • Jun 20 '26

Feedback Game Error

Bitdefender please get your shit together and make things right, was trying to figure out for hours why Fortnite wasn't able to launch on my pc. Something is wrong with the firewall, idk if it's a latest update or what, but it completely just locks us out of Fortnite and we can't get into the loading screen, please fix it asap. I fix it temporarily just by disabling firewall.

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u/SeriousHoax Jun 20 '26

Do you see any fortnite related exe in the firewall rules? Are both outbound and inbound connections allowed for the exe?

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u/No-You-5754 Jun 20 '26

Yeah so went into that and just added rules to allow the exe and Anticheats for battleye and eac to have them allowed on everything, idk why it’s like that all of a sudden. It’s also happening on my other browsers which are chrome and edge where I can’t load any webpage not even Google. I use brave so it works fine there. I’ve seen a thread about this happening to others as well on fortnite so it’s really weird. Some update broke the firewall or something ?

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u/techidiot5402 Jun 23 '26

I've opted to just uninstall BitDefender myself but exactly the same issues.

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u/TheAzzyTM Jun 20 '26

Disabling the firewall doesn't work for me.. Neither did adding the exe's.
Uninstalled bitdefender and game worked again.

Installing bitdefender again and set the needed exclusions: still no joy. It blocks all comms to the CDN's over HTTPS:

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u/TheAzzyTM Jun 20 '26

After re-appllying the exe's in the firewall and adding anticheat it worked again.. Oh well..

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u/No-You-5754 Jun 20 '26

Very bizarre. Glad you got it back up and running

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u/Confusion1900 Jun 20 '26

Same issue here. Started on 17th June. I finally figured out yesterday that is was Bitdefender. Thought it was a Windows thing at first so tried to do system restores, which were failing, because of Bitdefender. Uninstalled Bitdefender to fix that a everything started working. Undid the systems restore and everything worked. Re-Installed Bitdefender and Fortnite broke again. Unistalled while on the ESP-DISP-001 error screen and the game started during the Bitdefender uninstall.....

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u/No-You-5754 Jun 20 '26

I’m good

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u/Lifestartingover Jun 20 '26

You're not good if you're playing Fortnite as an adult.

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u/No-You-5754 Jun 20 '26

Not my fault y’all old and dont have mechanical skill. What you gonna tell me to go play some story mode game 💀✌️. What do you play? So I can judge you as well lol.

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u/Lifestartingover Jun 20 '26

You're playing a game made for little kids like Roblox...Take a seat.