Need help – Intel Iris Xe, Windows 11, Fortnite launches but lags horribly

Hi everyone, I really need some help because I’ve been struggling with this for hours.

I have a laptop with Intel Iris Xe Graphics and Windows 11. I’m trying to play Fortnite, and it finally launches now, but it’s lagging like crazy – completely unplayable.

Before, the game wouldn’t even start because of a message saying I needed a D3D11-compatible GPU (Feature Level 11.0, Shader Model 5.0). I checked and my system supports DirectX 12 so I don’t get why it was happening.

I tried uninstalling the Intel drivers through Device Manager, but they always come back after a restart. I couldn’t replace them with anything else. I tried downloading another driver multiple times but it didn’t do anything.

I don’t have a dedicated GPU, only the integrated Intel graphics. I’ve updated drivers, tried everything I could think of, and now the game opens, but the performance is awful.

Is there anything I can do to fix this or make Fortnite playable on this setup? I was playing normally but I had an older driver and it updated to this (I have a suspicion my bf did it ) and now I can’t play.. Any help would mean a lot!