OK, so I’ve run into the problem below but something seems different in my engine.
My content browser seems to have a non existing folder called blueprints when I try to create a new blueprint and when I try to add a new blueprint to that folder the engine freezes.
I tried to fix it by taking the measures provided in the link but wasn’t able to fix the problem.
Has this already been made aware and is there a solution to this?
Hey there @nounouno5402! This is actually quite odd. This could be related, however that issue is primarily effecting laptops and other integrated graphics setups and has been solved.
Let’s try backing your project up, deleting the Saved, Intermediate, and DerivedDataCache folders. Then, in your file system, check for the Blueprints folder in your project, and if not there, create one, then launch the project. Let me know how it goes!
Thanks for the response.
I’ve tried as you’ve instructed but am getting the same result as before, my editor freezes upon creating blueprint files.
Seems like that happens when I create from the button up in the toolbar instead from the content browser. When I create it from the content browser things seems to work fine.
Does it do this for any project you try to open?
This is mostly general advice that i use for when I’ve completely messed up windows or when it starts to chug for no apparent reasons ( usually stuffs starting on startup that you don’t know/remember ) that I’ve somewhat adapted to your problem
Something i can suggest if your running out of options is to backup your projects and then uninstall the engine version ( remember the version )
and reinstall, if you wanted to be really through you could also uninstall the epic launcher and even visual studio, it doesn’t sound like a visual thing or driver in general but i might suggest drivers as well
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This could break your projects as well I’ve never had to do it myself but in theory if backed up your pointers and things should be fine as it’s a file somewhere
Not particularly a good idea kind of like real nukes your last last last option
BACKUP
keep in mind you’ll probably want to backup to a different Hard Drive or Thumb Drive if you happen to have one big enough as if you end up having to reinstall or restore windows it’s modifying ALL of your files
This will almost definitely work… But at what cost?
you could backup everything important to you on your computer make sure you have your windows key recorded someplace, there’s tools to pull the key from windows if it won’t just give it to you and then reinstall everything
All though your likely to lose a lot of stuff you never even thought about, like saves and program settings saved in Appdata etc other weird places you don’t put your own files but some apps may put things there like if you configured photoshop layout and saved it or something
Uninstall windows… a.k.a reinstall over the old one… ideally wiping the drive and reformatting it
Try installing just Unreal, Drivers, Visual studio etc other things the engine will surely need and ask you to install then reinstall your apps and restore your stuff like documents pictures etc
Definitely be careful here if your not sure what your doing and never fully trust any advice that tells you about specific registry things to change
I label this one as the more destructive method despite both being nuclear because you could very well fix something this way only to discover some time later that you caused some other potentially more horrific problem than just one program not working, data corruption, windows not working or possibly even booting
But you could play around in your registry or error logging ( i forget which one specifically but one of them will show you any crashes and system settings that the program may be trying to use )
Highly unlikely this is your problem you’d have issues in other areas on your computer usually if this was remotely true or will be true if you mess with the wrong registry entry
Personally i’d never choose this option unless your sure of what your doing and what else it will possibly effect, and i’d even go as far as saying write down what you did somewhere and keep it for ~6 months to be safe and record what the setting originally was and where it was/is
I am not responsible legally, morally or in any other way for consequences of anything used above
Does it do this for any project you try to open?
It does so reinstalling or nuking seems like an option up to this point.
So far creating from the content browser hasn’t done anything critical so I’ll stick to that for now as I haven’t done much yet on a project.
Thanks for replying.
Ya sounds like part of the engine went on vacation ( is missing )
and short of an engine contributor or staff showing up that has reason to fix/identify the issue i don’t know that there is a solution surely something has broken/corrupted or you mistakenly deleted something in engine files somehow, i don’t think it’s anything you’ve done at least intentionally, this should in theory be impossible
was this a fresh install that did this or you’ve had it around a bit?
if you also have a non-standard screen size like the linked problem seems to be somewhat about you may actually want to try getting latest driver or older drivers and set your screen size to something more standard like 1920x1080 or 1280x720 or last time i had a laptop it was 1366x768 if any of that helps and the refresh down to lets call it normal refresh rates of 60hz
Interesting! That issue is pretty in line with the previous issue, though the intended fixes should have corrected it if it was related. Nightwolf’s reinstallation take is a solid idea, but in this case it seems like more of an environment issue.
Does this still occur when not fullscreen?
If you have the space, could you try 5.4.1 and see if the error persists there? (Doesn’t necessarily mean your current project)
I tried it with 5.4.1 and creating new blueprint from the toolbar went fine.
It did point to the non-existing Blueprints folder but when the blueprint was created just fine.
Maybe I’ll just switch to 5.4.1.
Thanks.
Be advised 5.4.1 is still very new and some of the features are not remotely what i would call stable yet
There’s multiple problems sighted in that post you’ve linked, if somehow this is screen related which my understanding says should not be related to BP not working try with external monitor/tv and see if disabling your laptop screen works
If that’s not the problem idk why you have that linked maybe im lost? i’d just remove that personally and say my BP crashes when creating any
I’ve looked here and others with no luck… i have the same monitor/laptop as this guy
