Cannot purchase Vbucks or items that require actual money on Fortnite | Shadow (ENG) | Page 1

heady cairn Jan 30, 2023, 5:19 AM

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I wanted to try buying a pack from Fortnite today, only for Shadow to give me a pop-up saying that it cannot display protected content on Shadow. It is preventing me from buying something and putting in my credentials to buy this. I tried switching from fullscreen to windowed, and that didn't work. Tried restarting my shadow, that also did not work. Is there anything that can be done to address this?

sacred sedge Jan 30, 2023, 5:26 AM

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That's HDCP. High bandwidth digital content protection. They're using it on their page to prevent applications from capturing card data via video. Problem being, Shadow has no monitor, so it can't complete the HDCP chain and display the video.

heady cairn Jan 30, 2023, 5:28 AM

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Then what am I supposed to do so I can buy what I want to on the game?

sacred sedge Jan 30, 2023, 5:28 AM

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Complain to Epic. HDCP is an Intel abomination that's been around for years. Originally created for anti movie piracy.

heady cairn Jan 30, 2023, 5:28 AM

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Goddamn it Epic

sacred sedge Jan 30, 2023, 5:29 AM

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It's also the reason that you can't just watch a streaming service using their respective apps on Shadow. Have to disable hardware acceleration in your browser, or use Firefox, and go to the web version.

heady cairn Jan 30, 2023, 5:33 AM

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I wonder if disabling it in the Registry will do something

heady cairn Jan 30, 2023, 5:55 AM

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Seems like trying to disable it on Nvidia didn't do jack, guess I will give a piece of my mind to Epic

chrome terrace Jan 30, 2023, 6:24 AM

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even in exclusive fullscreen ?

rancid briar Jan 30, 2023, 6:49 AM

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Yeah, there's a workaround.

heady cairn Jan 30, 2023, 3:27 PM

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What is the workaround in question?

rancid briar Jan 30, 2023, 3:27 PM

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In-game, are you using exclusive Fullscreen or borderless ?

heady cairn Jan 30, 2023, 3:28 PM

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Tried using Windowed

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Still didn't work

rancid briar Jan 30, 2023, 3:29 PM

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One of those two let the user buy V-bucks.

heady cairn Jan 30, 2023, 3:29 PM

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Tried fullscreen as well

rancid briar Jan 30, 2023, 3:29 PM

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Restart the game after switching.

heady cairn Jan 30, 2023, 3:30 PM

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I'll try again I guess

heady cairn Jan 30, 2023, 3:56 PM

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Tried all three settings, still the same Shadow Error

rancid briar Jan 30, 2023, 5:38 PM

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@heady cairn you made me install Fortnite.

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Fullscreen + DirectX 11.

heady cairn Jan 30, 2023, 6:27 PM

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Hm, lemme see

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Wow. Who would've thought that the issue was the DirectX setting I was using

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I guess this is a case closed then @rancid briar

rancid briar Jan 30, 2023, 6:43 PM

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I won't forget you made me install Fortnite.

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^^

chrome terrace Jan 30, 2023, 7:03 PM

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Thanks @rancid briar for your time.

heady cairn Jan 30, 2023, 10:44 PM

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rancid briar I won't forget you made me install Fortnite.

I am so sorry for making you

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And thank you

rancid briar Jan 30, 2023, 10:45 PM

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Np ^^

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