# Unreal Engine 5 Only Crashes With VR Template **URL:** \ **Category:** Getting Started & Setup\ **Tags:** unreal-engine, UE5-0, bug-report, question\ **Created:** [April 9, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100 "2022-04-09T01:04:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![K9Cubed](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/k9cubed/32/915896_2.png) [@K9Cubed](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/K9Cubed)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/1 "2022-04-09T01:04:59Z")
So as the title says, I’ve had no issues with unreal 5 thus far. However, it seems inside of vr projects, if i try to make a material, simple material with a simple texture node or even just a constant color, if i move any node it hard crashes the engine. Here is the error I get. Is this a known issue? I’ve tried a fresh Unreal 5 install, fresh vr project, no luck, anything with the VR template just crashes immediately in editor, not even with anything to do with playing in vr Assertion failed: CurrentGPUVirtualAddress != 0 [File:D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12DescriptorCache.cpp] [Line: 729] ---
**Author:** ![QubaXR](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/qubaxr/32/471864_2.png) [@QubaXR](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/QubaXR)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/2 "2022-04-09T21:24:18Z")
I wish I had a solution for you - I don’t. Just posting here to confirm I am having exactly the same problem. Adding a new material is fine, but as soon as I create a color (3-vector) node in its graph, UE5 hard crashes. ---
**Author:** ![QubaXR](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/qubaxr/32/471864_2.png) [@QubaXR](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/QubaXR)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/3 "2022-04-09T21:35:08Z")
It’s ridiculous to call it a “fix” but I managed to avoid having crashes by: 1. Turning off all other target platform 2. Switching rendering from DX12 to Volkan. It chugs on, but hardly projects confidence. ---
**Author:** ![885Volt](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@885Volt](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/885Volt)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/4 "2022-04-10T13:30:52Z")
I can confirm this too. I had like 50 crashes the last 3 days. I tried to recreate the template but I got even more crashes ( controller position errors …. teleporting to infinity) For the moment I will continue with 4.27. ---
**Author:** ![maxbrown](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/maxbrown/32/1194506_2.png) [@maxbrown](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/maxbrown)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/5 "2022-04-10T13:30:53Z")
Same problem - you’re right - it only crashes with VR projects. Creating a brand new 3rd person 5.0 project and you can create a material with a texture / constant 3 vectors without crashing. Reported @ Bugreport ---
**Author:** ![cheesyball232](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@cheesyball232](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/cheesyball232)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/6 "2022-04-10T14:52:14Z")
Temporary fix seems to be setting the Graphics API to anything but DirectX12 (tested with DirectX 11 and it seems to work fine now). ---
**Author:** ![Araeos42](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Araeos42](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Araeos42)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/7 "2022-04-10T18:39:36Z")
Have the exact same issue. Started several new VR Templates with Unreal Engine 5 and each time I add a node to a newly created material the editor hard crashes. This issue from 2019, although fixed, seems very similar to my observations: [Unreal Engine Issues and Bug Tracker (UE-73255)](https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-73255) A crash report directly after creating a VectorParameter for example looks like this: LoginId:13419cc340b8c75826016d94dd98d76b EpicAccountId: Assertion failed: CurrentGPUVirtualAddress != 0 [File:D:\build++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12DescriptorCache.cpp] [Line: 729] UnrealEditor\_D3D12RHI UnrealEditor\_D3D12RHI UnrealEditor\_D3D12RHI UnrealEditor\_RHI UnrealEditor\_Renderer UnrealEditor\_RHI UnrealEditor\_RHI UnrealEditor\_RHI UnrealEditor\_Core UnrealEditor\_Core UnrealEditor\_Core UnrealEditor\_RenderCore UnrealEditor\_Core UnrealEditor\_Core kernel32 ntdll ---
**Author:** ![HFSquadraCorse](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@HFSquadraCorse](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/HFSquadraCorse)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/8 "2022-04-12T02:34:11Z")
Thanks for figuring out a work-around. This was driving me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![maxbrown](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/maxbrown/32/1194506_2.png) [@maxbrown](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/maxbrown)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/9 "2022-04-12T11:17:36Z")
> [@HFSquadraCorse](#): > > Thanks for figuring out a work-around. Reverting to DX11 isn’t really a viable workaround imho. You miss out on GPUlightmass and lots of the UE5.0 goodies. Crossing fingers it gets fixed soon™ ---
**Author:** ![Araeos42](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Araeos42](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Araeos42)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/10 "2022-04-14T12:08:24Z")
Well, you could use Vulkan, which worked well for me, except that the Quest 2 Link connection is full of artifacts (does not happen when I shove SteamVR in between UE5 and the Quest 2 Link). If that is not an option for you, then maybe using DX12 and disabling “Instanced-Stereo” and “Mobile Multi-View” until the crash is properly fixed could work. ---
**Author:** ![maxbrown](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/maxbrown/32/1194506_2.png) [@maxbrown](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/maxbrown)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/11 "2022-04-15T14:33:20Z")
> [@Araeos42](#): > > using DX12 and disabling “Instanced-Stereo” and “Mobile Multi-View” until the crash is properly fixed could work. that actually could work for me so I could continue working on the project and test it in VR once its fixed again. Thanks for the suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![maxbrown](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/maxbrown/32/1194506_2.png) [@maxbrown](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/maxbrown)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/12 "2022-04-16T09:12:25Z")
Bug is now visible in the bug tracker - vote here [Unreal Engine Issues and Bug Tracker (UE-148100)](https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-148100) ---
**Author:** ![biXen](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@biXen](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/biXen)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/13 "2022-04-16T21:02:16Z")
Tried the workaround (turning off instanced stereo), only afterwards saw the bug report mentions opening the project afterwards doesn’t work. Doh! Well I still have some prototyping to do in Blender I guess. ---
**Author:** ![maxbrown](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/maxbrown/32/1194506_2.png) [@maxbrown](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/maxbrown)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 10:05am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/14 "2022-04-18T10:05:53Z")
@biXen You can fix this ‘afterwards not opening bug’ by going to the config folder and edit the DefaultEngine.ini. Change the false to true in the line with `vr.InstancedStereo=True` ---
**Author:** ![robirobi](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/robirobi/32/485759_2.png) [@robirobi](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/robirobi)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/15 "2022-04-18T14:56:37Z")
Mine crashes while building lighting. I can only get around a crash when a level is empty. ---
**Author:** ![maxbrown](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/maxbrown/32/1194506_2.png) [@maxbrown](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/maxbrown)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/16 "2022-04-18T15:09:25Z")
> [@robirobi](#): > > Mine crashes while building lighting That issue is also in the same bug tracker - vote here [Unreal Engine Issues and Bug Tracker (UE-148100)](https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-148100) ---
**Author:** ![robirobi](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/robirobi/32/485759_2.png) [@robirobi](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/robirobi)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/17 "2022-04-18T15:26:13Z")
Yeah, I saw that and did cast my vote. I hope it won’t take months to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![M0rph3u5\_UK](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/m0rph3u5_uk/32/899226_2.png) [@M0rph3u5\_UK](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/M0rph3u5_UK)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/18 "2022-04-21T21:30:36Z")
This is exactly what I encountered as well but I actually reported this to Quixel since I thought it was related to Bridge. Who then directed me to this thread. I was also using a VR template and trying to create my own materials using textures brought to the project through the builtin Bridge; however, as soon as I dragged the texture from the content browser to the material window, UE5 crashed… and repeatedly, I even created a fresh VR template and tried it again and it just kept crashing. Had to revert to UE4 eventually with standalone bridge. I was planning to add parallax occlusion or bump offset using custom material since normal maps are useless in VR if you’re too close to them. I was really hoping that the issue was resolved with UE 5.0.1 update, but it hasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![maxbrown](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/maxbrown/32/1194506_2.png) [@maxbrown](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/maxbrown)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/19 "2022-04-22T12:27:42Z")
@M0rph3u5_UK As a workaround you could temporary create a first person project in UE5 and create your materials there and - after its finished - migrate it to your VR project. Not ideal but like that you could continue to work in UE5. ---
**Author:** ![M0rph3u5\_UK](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/m0rph3u5_uk/32/899226_2.png) [@M0rph3u5\_UK](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/M0rph3u5_UK)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100/20 "2022-04-22T18:25:50Z")
@maxbrown thanks for your reply, I already did that (with third person template) shortly after leaving my original comment in this thread and it did indeed work, and even after I added the VR template, I was able to create materials initially with no issues but after a while it started crashing again. I will probably need to avoid using materials for now as I am trying to prototype a level utilising the new modelling toolkit and need to run it in VR periodically to adjust the scale. Hope they will fix it soon. Thanks [Next page](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-only-crashes-with-vr-template/521100.md?page=2)