Unreal Engine 4.10 cannot use Visual Studio Professional 2013

damorton · November 17, 2015, 5:18pm

Unreal Engine 4.10 cannot use Visual Studio Professional 2013. Is this right?? It keeps asking me to install Visual Studio 2015…

This is an error or bug or something. Has anyone a solution to this?

I have checked my environment variables and they are correct. Set to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools

because UE4 looks for the IDE at:

%VS120COMNTOOLS%…\IDE\devenv.exe

anonymous_user_bd3dfdf6 · November 17, 2015, 5:25pm

the ue4.10 requeres vs 2015 to script the codes

damorton · November 17, 2015, 5:27pm

So Im being forced to update my IDE if I want to use the latest release of UE4?

Jamie_Dale · November 17, 2015, 5:36pm

To clarify, the launcher version now requires VS2015, however you can build the GitHub version using either VS2013 or VS2015.

Please see the “Visual Studio 2015 Support” section of the 4.10 release announcement:

Mattlauk · November 17, 2015, 5:40pm

Correct. It kinda sucks because you might lose some of Visual Studio Professional 2013 functions if you don’t purchase the upgrade to 2015 professional. But to be fair, I’d rather Epic spend more time on improving the engine than trying to support as many IDE’s as possible. It’s really a no win situation but they’ve also gotta stay up to date with the latest tools.