How to fix Epic Games Launcher not downloading engine but constantly updating. (Windows and Mac)

July 06, 2016  

If you live in an area with slow Internet connection and you want to be a game developer and have tried to download the Unreal Engine (The best game making engine in the world).There are some processes to get the engine.
First: Go and download the Epic games launcher (Make sure you have an epic games account)

Second: Install it and sign in

Third: Choose engine version and start downloading.

But some people like me went through all this but everytime I opened the launcher it would start auto updating itself. So I went out to find how to stop the auto update feature (Since the launcher doesn't have it) and I located this post:

Unreal Forums.(Mac users go to this link instructions are there) 

and did what I was told and now my engine is finally downloading after nearly 4 months of waiting for the auto update.

Steps

1) Right Click the epic games launcher

2) Select properties

3) In the target tab hit space bar once and paste "-noselfupdate"

4) Hit apply and then ok.

5) Launch it.

6) Enjoy.