# Engine starts up then crashes... do I need Win 8.1?

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**Category:** Programming & Scripting\
**Tags:** unreal-engine\
**Created:** [October 30, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/engine-starts-up-then-crashes-do-i-need-win-8-1/297718 "2014-10-30T15:40:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_2b03d27c](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_2b03d27c](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_2b03d27c)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/engine-starts-up-then-crashes-do-i-need-win-8-1/297718/5 "2014-10-31T14:27:49Z")

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Hey -

Could you post your verbose logs here as well to give us some extra information that could point to the cause of this crash. The following link explains how to collect the logs from the editor.

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