RestartLevel Console Command Causes Pure Virtual Function Crash

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Summary

This might be me but I’ve looked around at various tutorials to see what I’m doing wrong…

I have a level that I want to restart if a player fails to make it to safety in time. Currently I have it set up where after the camera fades to black, wait for the fade duration and then execute console command RestartLevel. Everything works if I remove the console command. I even tested just running the console command RestartLevel in cmd but it still crashed my game. Keeps saying I’m calling a pure virtual function…

I tried branching it off as a sequence per a tutorial I’m following which fixed their bug crash but it’s still happening for me.

I’ve also tried just Open Level and putting the level name and that one crashes randomly but not all the time.

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Other

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Press Play
  2. Wait for fail event
  3. Upon fail, wait for fade to black
  4. After 2 seconds, the pure virtual function crash will trigger instead of restarting the level

Expected Result

Instead of a crash at step 4, the level restarts

Observed Result

Using the console command RestartLevel results in a Pure virtual function being called while application was running crash.

Affects Versions

5.4

Platform(s)

Windows

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Fatal error: [File:D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Windows\WindowsPlatformMisc.cpp] [Line: 746] Pure virtual function being called

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Additional Notes

If you have any suggestions of alternative things that work better for this version of Unreal Engine, please share! Thank you!