Cannot start Unreal Engine server. Visual Studio Error.

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Hi,

When I open Visual Studio for a particular project error message pops up with the following text:

“Cannot start Unreal Engine server. Please make sure that you installed the Unreal Engine, and then try again.”

No matter how many times I click OK, it keeps popping up again, right away or with a small delay.

Does anyone know where it might be coming from?

Thanks,

Bojan

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Hi,

This error seems to come from Visual Studio itself. I could not find internal report for this error or the error message itself in the code UE 5.6 base. So it’s probably something in Visual Studio installation. I’d suggest running ‘Visual Studio Installer’ and search for ‘Unreal’ in individual components. Here what I have:

[Image Removed]I assume you have VS Pro to a version close to mine (17.14.20). If you have the same Unreal components installed as me, maybe it’s coming from some UE AddOn? UnrealVS maybe? If you can successfully open VS without a .uproject, then you can review your installed addons. You can also validate your UE installation by building the Win64 version of your game from command line (you can replace -project=Lyra if you have not pulled Lyra from P4 with the path to your .uproject file (ex -project=D:/Proj/MyProject.uproject). If it builds, your UE is correctly installed and this is a VS setup problem.

.\RunUAT.bat BuildCookRun -project=Lyra -clientconfig="Development" -platform=Win64 -build -cook -stage -pak -iostoreRegards,

Patrick

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Hi,

At least, for now you have a workaround. I reached out to the people that are likely more familiar with the integration. Those components are implemented and maintained by Microsoft, so I’m not sure if we can help more, but I’ll post back if we know more internally, sometime we have chat with Microsoft VS team, so maybe few people are aware of something.

Regards,

Patrick

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Hi,

A Visual Studio representative suggested to open a Visual Studio ticket. You should be able to do that from Visual Studio -> Help -> Send Feedback -> Report a problem…

Regards,

Patrick

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Just an update that a pop-up can happen on the older version of the VS, 17.13.2. The difference is that when you click it 3 times, it stops popping up.

I mentioned that on a different project, this does not happen. I noticed on that project that there is no Configure Tools for Unreal Engine in the Project menu.

Do you know how that was enabled/disabled?

Thanks,

Bojan

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Hi,

No, I don’t know how the menu in “Visual Studio -> Project -> Configure Tools for Unreal Engine” is enabled/disabled. You should open a ticket with Microsoft like I said earlier. The Visual Studio representative asked me to shared your tickets with him, so that he can bump the priority. Since this integration is performed by Microsoft, I think this is the best way to go for now and depending what its found, I can help for the UE side if needed. So if you don’t mind, create and share the ticket, I’ll share it with the Visual Studio team.

Regards,

Patrick

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Hi,

Thank you for the help. Here is the ticket Developer Community

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Thanks, I shared the link with the VS team representative. Keep me posted if something UE specific pops up with respect to VS.

Regards,

Patrick

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I’m on a similar version 17.14.23-24. And if I remove the component, there is no issue.

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