{"id":91162,"date":"2026-10-14T09:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91162"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:39:18","slug":"the-library-loads-30x-faster-the-new-much-speedier-epic-games-launcher-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91162","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Library Loads 30x Faster\u2019 \u2013 The New, Much Speedier Epic Games Launcher Has Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Epic has released a new version of the Epic Games Launcher, with a preview version of the company\u2019s refreshed Steam competitor available to download now. <\/p>\n<p>This new Epic Games Launcher, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/we-vibe-coded-a-new-epic-games-launcher-epics-new-store-app-was-built-using-ai\">built using AI and \u201cvibe coding\u201d<\/a>, is currently in the early stages of development and so is \u201clight on features\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/store.epicgames.com\/news\/epic-games-launcher-preview\">a new blog post from Epic<\/a>. The preview version features the core components you\u2019d expect from a launcher, including store, library, and social panels, as well as the Unreal-focused developer page. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"image-with-caption\" data-image-url=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/10\/14\/egs-launcher-blogroll-1791980802752.jpg\" data-image-title=\"undefined\" data-image-class=\"article-image-full-size\" data-image-link=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/10\/14\/egs-launcher-blogroll-1791980802752.jpg\" data-caption=\"The%20new%20launcher%20has%20similarities%20to%20the%20old%20one%2C%20but%20is%20designed%20to%20be%20much%20slicker.%20%7C%20Image%20credit%3A%20Epic%20Games\" \/>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s been rebuilt entirely from the ground up,\u201d explained Martin Keely, vice president and general manager of Epic Games Store, in an interview with IGN. \u201cSo this is a completely new tech stack, a complete new rewrite of both the shell, which has the download manager, library, and the app itself, as well as the new store architecture. So features like discover and product detail pages, those have all been rewritten.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In terms of improvements, for this first phase of the rebuild the big focus has been on speed. Epic says that the launcher boots from cold in 5.47 seconds, which it claims is 46% faster than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic has released a new version of the Epic Games Launcher, with a preview version of the company\u2019s refreshed Steam competitor available to download now. This new Epic Games Launcher, which was built using AI and \u201cvibe coding\u201d, is currently in the early stages of development and so is \u201clight on features\u201d according to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":91164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91166,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91162\/revisions\/91166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}