UE5.0.2 won't launch

Development Getting Started & Setup
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Hello, I installed the stable UE 5.0.2 using Epic Games Launcher but when I click Launch - nothing happens. It says “please wait”, “launching”, “please wait” and back to enabled launch button again.

However when I open an already existing project from within EGL - Unreal Editor starts fine, loading the project.

However I can’t create any new project or do other things a normally started UE would let you do otherwise.

I had UE5.0 alpha installed before and it worked fine.

(win10 x64, i5 9600k, 32GBs RAM, GTX1080Ti)

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Hi there. It may be a driver error or it may be a install error. Maybe try and reinstall the engine or check for driver updates. Good luck.

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Actually it was quite simple and more of my fault. I installed UE4.27 to see if that one launches and that one gave me an error right away about not being able to access the Unreal Projects folder. Turns out when uninstalling UE5.0EA a symbolic link got broken (I moved project folder from C drive at one point). So I resolved it fast.

It’s too bad that UE5 doesn’t throw that error, shutting down silently instead.

But, eh, resolved.

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