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HOW TO DISABLE EPIC GAMES FOREVER AND HAVE IT NEVER BOTHER YOU EVER AGAIN

By Zolton (it/her)

If you were considering not playing this game solely because of Epic Online Services, reconsider because you can completely remove all Epic malware with a few simple steps.

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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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9 Sep, 2023 @ 11:59pm

12 Apr, 2024 @ 7:48pm

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Go to Sackboy\GingerBread\Binaries\Win64,this is where you will be deleting and modifying vanilla files.
Delete EpicOnlineServicesInstaller.exe and eos_installscript.vdf. The former file is over 100 MB, so it is a huge waste of space! If you delete anything more, the game will not function properly. After deleting the files, your folder should look like this.
Open Launcher.ini in your text editor of choice (e.g. Notepad++) and change NoOperation from 0 to 1. This will stop the annoying overlay install that would otherwise happen every single time you boot up the game!
Now go to Sackboy\GingerBread\Content\Paks and create a new folder called ~mods. It has to be exactly named like this, it is a built-in feature of Unreal Engine that forces the game to load new paks within the folder.
Download the Disable Epic Online Services[gamebanana.com] mod, and put the pak in your new ~mods folder.

After you're done, enjoy your Epic-free experience with this banger platformer... Don't allow this company to let their trojan horse into our Steam games!

Side-note; If your game is crashing the moment the FMV logos end or randomly during gameplay, make sure overlays such as RivaTuner are turned off, they are super jank with this game in particular for some reason...

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plume 30 Aug @ 7:47am

Can't play online with Epic. Is that the fix?

LOKO 25 Aug @ 6:29pm

It's just that I don't see the value in removing a games launcher, it doesn't affect gameplay (as far as it goes with me, maybe it might be a different story for you in which case I take back my previous message). Just seems like people hate on games that have their own launchers just for the fact that they cant launch it through steam exclusively. IMO, seems like a pointless thing to worry about. To each their own I suppose though, and I don't care, just genuinely wondered why it was something that you felt the need to do.

Zolton (it/her) [author] 25 Aug @ 6:10pm

I'll never understand why people care so much about people improving their own single-player games with a few simple steps to help us just enjoy the game. It takes like 10 seconds to put this mod in a folder geeze

D 3 I M O S 25 Jan @ 7:37am

Doesn't work.

LOKO 17 Jan @ 5:33pm

I'll never understand why people care so much about having to log onto other services to play their games, rockstar, epic, ubisoft play. Just enjoy the game it takes like 10 seconds to load the launchers geeze

Phoenix_Reborn17 25 Dec, 2024 @ 4:14pm

Thank you so much. You saved our Christmas.

James101 15 Jul, 2024 @ 3:41pm

@Nighto i can confirm the achievements still work

Nighto 15 Jul, 2024 @ 2:42pm

Thanks for the guide, just bought on the Summer sale and discovered about this Epic crap. One question: does doing this disable Steam achievements? Thanks

Winter 22 Jun, 2024 @ 11:21am

thank you for this guide,

Zolton (it/her) [author] 12 Apr, 2024 @ 7:48pm

follow-up; I contacted the mod uploader and she reverted the update so the pak version is on the original gamebanana page so you don't need to use the dropbox link anymore

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