Second change of Windows icon doesnt work in UE 4.6

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Hello…

As title says, change of icon doesnt work in UE 4.6. How to manage this?

I mean, i am able to change windows icon for first time, but if i want to use another icon and make package, game is packaged with my first icon… always !

If i open Packaging settings i see there my last icon i wanted to use, but game is packaged with previous icon anyway…

Dont know how to manage it…

Thx,

L.

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Hi lukas84,

I wasn’t able to reproduce this in 4.6. When I go to Project Settings > Platforms > Windows and change Game Icon, packaging game results in a .exe with that new icon. Setting it to a second icon and then packaging again gives me a .exe with second icon. Are you following a different process? Does this happen in a new project, or only in your current project?

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hi … **** it then! i will try it with new project too.

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same problem for new project… btw, if i open packaged exe with resource hacker, i see new icon inside, however windows are showing old icon… so UE doesnt change icon in some dll or so, i guess

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now i see correct icon on my project… strange… may be some step is needed, like hitting Build button, or something.

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I didn’t do anything outside of steps I listed above, so I’m not sure what happened with yours. Does it only happen with a particular .ico file? If you use that second icon first time (in another new project), does it work as expected?

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yes if i tried second icon in another project first time it worked.

to situation when it finally worked, may be reason is that i also changed eg something in Description section, i am not sure.

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Hm. Are you using binary version of 4.6, or a build from GitHub? I saw elsewhere that you were using a Linux build, is that where this is happening?

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yes i was using 4.5 from github, but 4.6 i am using binary version… but now i changed icon third time (i am picky) and it worked first time… so lets close this. i really had problems before but now it works, so lets close.

many thanks for your help

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now it works good…

i think i found what is problem. probably it is icon caching in Windows 8.1

now i copied one version of exe over older version of exe with another icon, and once i replaced exe with new one, i saw icon of old file. but if i just rename exe, i see correct icon…

so this is some issue in Windows.

Sorry for bothering you :).

L.

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Not a bother at all. I’ll get our guy with Windows 8 to look into it and let you know if we can reproduce it. Glad you got it working!