Epic Games Launcher 500 Internal Server Error | Fix

Epic Games is also a victim of the global Cloudflare outage. If you are seeing a “500 Internal Server Error” on the Epic Games Launcher right now, it is almost certainly part of the same massive infrastructure crash that took down Canva and Discord.

Current Situation:

• The Cause: The Cloudflare “mitigation accident” for CVE-2025-66478 took down the backend services that Epic Games uses for login and store data.

• The Error: “500” means the Epic Games Launcher cannot talk to the Epic servers because the connection is being dropped.

Is it fixed yet?

• Official Status: Most services are reporting as “Recovering” or “Operational” now, but many users are still seeing cached errors.

• What you are seeing: Your launcher is likely “stuck” remembering the crash from 30 minutes ago.

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How to Fix It (Force a Refresh)

Since the servers are coming back online, you likely just need to clear the “bad” data out of your launcher.

1. Fully Close the Launcher

• Right-click the Epic Games icon in your system tray (bottom right corner of Windows) and select Exit.

• Check Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc) to make sure EpicGamesLauncher.exe is actually gone.

2. Clear the Web Cache (The “Magic” Fix)

This usually fixes the “500” error immediately after server outages:

1. Press Windows Key + R on your keyboard.

2. Type %localappdata% and hit Enter.

3. Open the folder EpicGamesLauncher > Saved.

4. Delete the folder named webcache (and webcache_4147 if you see it).

5. Restart the Epic Games Launcher.

3. Check Official Status

If it still fails after clearing the cache, the servers might still be degraded in your specific region.

• Monitor here: status.epicgames.com