Unreal Engine 5.2.1 UnrealEditor.exe - Entry Point Not Found when opening VR Template project

[JonMarksArtist]

Launched UE5.2.1, created a new project from Template Game, Virtual Reality. Project opens fine.
Make a small change, save the map.
Closed project.

Launch the UE5.2.1, loaded the project no errors.
Closed project

Go to Launcher My Projects, Click on project to load.

Error displayed

UnrealEditor.exe - Entry Point Not Found

The procedure entry point StackWalk2 could not be located in the dynamic link library
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dbgeng.dll

Clicking OK the message keeps popping up.

Have to use CTRL+ALT+DEL to close the Editor, press ESC and restart the Launcher/Editor

Fine if I open the Engine first.

[Origenic]

Strange, I’m having the exact same error pop up, I’ve no idea. Did you install the UE5.4 preview by any chance, as I did? I’m just wondering what I did to cause this. I’ve done Windows scans to check for corrupt files and restore them but it passed so I don’t know why this is occurring now. I’ve even reinstalled 5.2 as I’ve been getting BSOD during rendering which may or may not be related, but any errors like this are warning flags.

[Origenic]

@JonMarksArtist

The procedure entry point StackWalk2 could not be located in the dynamic link library
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dbgeng.dll

Ok, I just found the fix for it… this seems to be an old issue

Dbgeng.dll fails and crashes unreal with 100% repros

Hello everyone, I ended up facing the same problem and decided to describe some steps until I found the solution. I’m part of a team that develops a project using 4.23. This error has never occurred before. There was a need recently to start another VR project in parallel. For this project, we are using 5.3 with Meta Quest 2. I installed the Oculus program normally, configured Quest 2 and ran it normally on 5.3. After that, I ran the project again in 4.23 and it started showing this error: […

It looks like the file in this location-

C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.2\Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\DbgHelp

gets outdated or something and needs replacing with the one at this location

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dbgeng.dll

basically, copy the one in the Windows system32 folder and replace the one in the UE5.2 folder (mentioned above) with it.

I did this and now the error is gone.

You’d think by now this would no longer be an issue lol

[JonMarksArtist]

Thank you for the reply.

I tried this however my to be location didn’t have the file in.

After I coped it the problem still occurs.

This is my file in the source location.

[537233520 (Nothing901)]

The error reported is dbgeng.dll, but please copy dbghelp.dll

[JonMarksArtist]

Thank you that works