Need help launching the game after the new season update. Please come forward.

Hi, I'm experiencing some issues with Fortnite on my laptop. If anyone can take a look at it, It'd be a great help to me as I've tried everything I could on my own.

So, after a month of not playing the game I booted up the Epic Games launcher and updated Fortnite and then launched the game. After the usual loading and connecting screen a pop up titled "Message" appears;

[XAudio 2.7 is not installed. Make sure you have XAudio 2.7 installed. XAudio 2.7 is available in the DirectX End-User Runtime (June 2010).]()

Click on OK closes the game and another pop up appears this time titled "Easy Anti-Cheat";

[Game Security Violation Detected (#00000001)]()

Click on OK again and a third pop up appears this time titled "TextInputHost.exe – System Error";

[The code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME 140_APP .dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.]()

Click OK and everything closes.

….

Now, I've tried installing DirectX 9 after downloading it from Microsoft's website. A list of RAR files appear where I installed DirectX 9 and extracted a RAR archive termed "June2010_XAudio_x64". There are no setup launchers in the file created so there's nothing I can do further.

I re-started the laptop but it still showed the same thing.

I uninstalled the game and re-installed it but nothing again (3 times).

I even tried verifying the game through Epic Games launcher but to no avail.

I feel really helpless at this point. After slogging for a month of exams this is not what I wanted :(. There's little help anywhere online, a few suggested reinstalling Windows but I'd like to keep that as a last resort.

Device: Lenovo Legion 5 running Windows 10.