Game creators at Epic didn’t include a tech demon in “Fortnite.” Maybe they should have.
A ggraphic from Epci charts how Fortnite play is being affected as it upgrades servers
If you think the Meltdown and Spectre chip vulnerabilities discovered last week aren’t having an impact, think again. Millions of online video game players of Cary-based Epic Games’ “Fortnite” certainly are having troubles.
Citing the fact Fortnite is running in the “cloud,” Epic said in a statement over the weekend that game play is being slowed as it updates servers to deal with the Meltdown threat.
“All of our cloud services are affected by updates required to mitigate the Meltdown vulnerability.”
Epic is keeping players updated at a website.
“We heavily rely on cloud services to run our back-end and we may experience further service issues due to ongoing updates. We are working with our cloud service providers to prevent further issues and will do everything we can to mitigate and resolve any issues that arise as quickly as possible.
“Unexpected issues may occur with our services over the next week as the cloud services we use are updated. We are working with our cloud service providers to prevent further issues and will do everything we can to mitigate and resolve any issues that arise as quickly as possible. Thank you all for understanding. Follow our twitter @FortniteGame for any future updates regarding this issue.”
Cloud services such as Amazon Web Services, or AWS, are seeing fallout from the security challenges.
Raleigh-based Red Hat is among the global tech firms warning users to be sure to update hardware following the Spectre and Meltdown disclosures.
