Unable to debug packaged build in 5.1

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I’m getting an error when executing seamless travel on packaged builds, that doesn’t occur in the editor. I’m now trying to debug to have a chance of finding the root of the issue, but for some reason debug symbols aren’t being loaded to see where in the source code the exception is occurring.

  • I have the engine source and editor symbols for debugging
  • I’ve packaged using the DebugGame configuration
  • \Binaries\Win64 contains _____DebugGame.exe and the corresponding .pdb file

When debugging it will catch the exception but say the source is unavailable. I can see from the call stack it happens in ULevel::GetWorldSettings(bool) function.

  • I’ve used Visual studio to open the _____DebugGame.exe and started debugging
  • I’ve also tried using the standard project sln and attaching it to the running _____DebugGame.exe

I’ve spent many hours trying to be able to be able to debug this packaged build with no luck. Is there anything I’m missing?

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Bump. I’m surprised there isn’t more documentation on debugging a packaged build. The very few examples I can find are UE4 and do what I’ve tried doing and correctly break into the source code.

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Bump… Really no one debugs a packaged build?

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Were you found something in dump file? Or 5.1.1 may fixed it.

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yeah having the same problem… tried many solutions around like rebooting, increasing max number of modules, regenerating project files, nothing works.

I can debug and ue source symbols load perfectly fine for ____GameEditor, but not ____Game.

I really need to debug packaged!