A
tweet from Sergiy Galyonkin indicates that the
recently identified
problem that caused graphics card temperature spikes on systems when running
the Epic Games Launcher was a bug (thanks
PC Gamer). He says they have rolled out a patch as a preliminary partial
hotfix that seems to be working:
The fix seems to be working, so it
shouldn't take long.
The hotfix is live now (11.0.2). It's not a full solution, but things should
improve.