I am packaging a project to run on a windows 8.1 machine. The windows machine doesn’t not have the unreal editior installed on it. I have installed the missing dll files that I know of, VSVS and DirectX. When i run the executable the program immediately crashes, there isn’t anything in the way or warnings or error messages. The executable works fine on windows 7 machines after installing the dlls. Doesn’t anyone have any fixes for this problem?
I’ve tried it on multiple windows 7 machines and they all worked fine. Tried it on 2 windows 8 machines with the same result.
I have tried to reproduce this, but unfortunately I don’t have full access to a completely clean install of Windows 8.1 at the moment that doesn’t have some form of UE4 installed.
There is a couple of questions and things to try possibly along with my test package.
Have you installed the UE4 prerequisites from this folder on the Win 8.1 machine? If not please install this and see if the project will run now. Folder Location: Engine\Extras\Redist\en-us\UE4PrereqSetup.msi.
Did you package your project on a Win 8.1 system or Win 7?
Here is a test project I’ve packaged on my 8.1 machine and tried to test. Can you try this on the 8.1 machine and see if you see the same crash happening? Dropbox - Error
I would assume this is true of any packaged project and not just this particular one. If that’s the case can you provide a test project (one of the templates packaged is good) that reproduces the crash. I would like to see if it will crash on my system with UE4 installed. If not, I will do what I can to get a completely clean machine build and start testing there.