Hi sportguitarRC,
A few more things to check/verify:
You mentioned that you installed DirectX. Did you install the June 2010 DirectX redistributable package (if you installed the SDK, that won’t work)?
Also (and this is something I should have asked previously), is your Visual Studio installation located in your user folder that contains the special characters?
Lastly, can you please verify that what you have all of the following in your Unreal Engine 4 folder:
- .git folder (this may not be visible if you do not have Windows set to display hidden folders, and will not be present if you downloaded the .zip source instead of using GitHub)
- Engine folder
- Samples folder
- Templates folder
- .gitattributes file
- .gitignore file
- GenerateProjectFiles.bat
- GenerateProjectFiles.command
- GenerateProjectFiles.sh
- LICENSE.pdf
- README.md
- UE4.sdf
- UE4.sln
- UE4.v12.suo