Earlier this month, users began finding that their Ryzen CPUs were running much hotter when the Epic Games Launcher was running on their systems. Epic Games has since confirmed that this is indeed an unintended bug and has begun putting fixes in place.
As we have previously reported, the Epic Games Launcher had a weird CPU usage pattern which was increasing the temperature significantly, even when the application was only running in the background. Besides increasing the CPU temperatures, the application was also sending a significant amount of data to multiple servers.
Following the discovery, Sergiy Galyonkin, director of publishing strategy at Epic Games, confirmed that it’s a bug and that the team would be working on it.