Crash when attempting to launch 'Shooter Demo' project

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Just as editor is preparing to launch cooked game, directly after compressing reduced-quality lightmaps, editor crashes and bumps back out to Windows. If I choose to copy callstack, only info I get is this:

We apologize for  inconvenience.
Please send this crash report to help improve our software.

No word on what is causing it to fail, so it is entirely unclear whether it is a problem with UE4, some sort of software conflict on my system, or a hardware conflict of some description. To be fair, I’m currently running editor below stated requirements (4gb RAM instead of 8gb), but I cannot imagine that would cause anything other than slow compilation.
project runs absolutely fine if I choose to play inside editor.

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Hey Beaucephal,

Can you send us log from your crash, and your machine specs? Thanks.

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Hi , crash reporter did and does not give me option to view any kind of crash log as stated above. All I can view is callstack which gives me placeholder text listed above.

Machine specs are as follows:
Intel Core i3 2120 (4 logical cores)
Nvidia GTX 650 Ti Boost (2gb RAM, GDDR5), 332.21 drivers
4gb DDR3 RAM
Windows 7 sp1 64-bit

Got about 70gb free on primary hard drive, so I cannot imagine I’m hitting any sort of virtual memory limitation either.

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Thanks Beaucephal. You can find your log files in your project’s folder (in your Documents) in Saved\Logs.

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Didn’t realize you could view your crashlog there, that’s incredibly useful, thanks :slight_smile:

full crashlog from my last attempt to build is here:

https://.com/file/d/0B-WwWgh4v7XddTFHT3RkVjBhLUU/edit?usp=sharing

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Hey Beaucephal,

Thank you for your report. I have collected your information and entered a report for our team to look at. If you run into same issue on any other projects or on new projects, please update and let us know. Thanks!

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As one last test, can you try deleting Shooter Game project and redownloading / reinstalling? Thanks!

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Following up on that and more poking around, project builds and plays fine if I choose to play in-editor, as a separate window, or as a separate process, so my best guess is it must have something to do with how UE4 handles creating final cooked build.
Currently redownloading. Shall follow up as soon as I can. Cheers!

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Did a clean-room reinstall of editor and several sample projects. Mobile Temple, Reflections Subway and all included templates build and launch with no errors, but error in Shooter Demo persists.

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Would you mind walking me through your process, step-by-step, for building and launching level so I know I’m following you exactly? I did a simple Launch from Toolbar, and did not run into a crash, but maybe I’m leaving out one of your steps.

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Yep, that’s exactly what I did. Simply opened project through UE4’s frontend program. Once project had loaded, I hit ‘Launch’, at which point editor spent roughly a half hour cooking content before crashing. Absolutely no intermediate steps.