All games that run on UE4 crash on startup

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After looking for several posts in the Internet, several reports some root causes which once handled will bring the system to work properly:

• not overclocking the CPU, leaving at stock clocks
• not overclocking the RAM, leaving it at auto (not in OC profile either)
• not overclocking the GPU, leaving it at stock
• trying to use other PCIe power connectors from the Power Supply
• make sure the 8 PIN connectors to the motherboard are well connected
• trying to use more powerful Power Supply (at least Gold and 80 plus certification)
• update graphics card BIOS (use a technician to do this or you might end with graphics card unusable)
• update motherboard BIOS (use a technician to do this or you might end with motherboard unusable)

The issue exists for quite some time, and happens with lots of graphics software, not only games.

Make sure your Windows is set to High Performance:

• Go to Windows Settings
• Click on System
• Click on Power & Sleep
• at right you will see a link to click “Additional Power Settings”, click on it
• at the Preferred Plan section, choose High Performance

Also, some graphical applications set the TDLr values to avoid the crash at least, you might see hiccups on the application if it is a game. Use the guide I wrote available here: instructionsTDLR.rtf - Google Drive

sure a hardware misconfiguration can cause it in different graphics software, but UE4 is known to have gpu HUNG crashes aside of hardware misconfigurations. they are simply caused by some obscure resource mismanagement from UE4 itself.
plenty of users have it:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/101964-to-developers-ue-4-14-crashes-error-0x887a0006-hung/page7?129394-to-developers-ue-4-14-crashes!-error-0x887a0006-hung= / Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0006 - 'HUNG') - Getting Started & Setup - Epic Developer Community Forums

at work we have a live UE4-based game in beta and a significant amount of our users experience this crash, and I also have it at home and at work (both on a GTX 970). I know I do not have any overclocked hardware and all my hardware is properly plugged and configured. I also only experience this sort of crash in UE4, and never in any other sort of game or graphics software (including different 3d modelling and animation software), not even in UE3 or UE3-based games.
telling people to check their hardware would be something to do were this a mere fluke from a few spare players, but the issue has a much bigger user scale that what would be reasonable to simply suspect misconfigured hardware - this issue is not an anecdotic happening from a handful of users.

also Epic has acknowledged and fixed a few of them Unreal Engine Issues and Bug Tracker (Search Results) - if your assumption were correct then Epic would have never been able to fix any of them in the past.
the issue exists on Epic’s side Unreal Engine Issues and Bug Tracker (UE-51650) and it affects Fortnite as well so it’s on Epic’s best interest to fix it :rolleyes: