Unreal Engine install launcher fails. OSX

I’m on Mac 10.9.2, I downloaded UnrealEngine.dmg installer, and when I open it, I can see it’s launched in top bar, but nothing shows on screen… and I have to force terminate it, I can’t just quit. If I try again, it might just say that it ended instead(crashing).

It seems like people are “crashing” a lot further in process than me, I’m not sure what might be cause?

You mean nothing shows on screen when you open the .dmg file you downloaded or when you open Unreal Engine app you copied from dmg file to Applications folder?

unreal engine app

OK, so please launch it, then open Activity Monitor from /Applications/Utilities, find Unreal Engine Launcher on list of processes, select it, then use View->Sample Process to generate info with details about what is it doing, save it as text file and attach here.

Also, what Mac model do you use?

Thanks. Looks like app might be stuck at very beginning (although I cannot be 100% sure), processing some system events, before even getting to our code :confused: I don’t have any idea what can be wrong, I’m afraid, so I’ll have to ask you to try a few more things.

  • Do you have any external hardware connected to your Mac? If you do, could you retry after disconnecting them?
  • Maybe some software is somehow conflicting with our app, so maybe you could try quitting everything, restarting your Mac and trying launching Unreal Engine app with no other apps running.
  • Do you have UnrealEngineLauncher folder in your Documents folder?

Also, how long did you wait before giving up and force quitting app? I guess you gave it at least few minutes, but want to make sure.

Thanks!

Here you go

I had several things connected, and I disconnected them all. Close all running software and restarted.

Yes, I do have UnrealEngineLauncher folder in Documents.

After trying to launch it several times, I forced quit, relaunched and let it sit for about 5 min. From just being open and up to 5 min, if I tried quiting app, nothing would happen. Forcing it was my only option.
If I continue to force quit app and reopen, it gives me a crash, so I do have a log for that. Not sure if it will help, but none less.

It’s crashing because it failed to read some info about your mouse :frowning: Give me a couple of hours or so, I’ll try to prepare a patch for you. Sorry for trouble!

I see… I just tried unplugging it though, and using my wacom instead, and it’s still happening. :confused:

yup… looks like

Is crash log same when you use wacom instead of mouse?

Interesting. Something is detected as a mouse, but cannot properly respond to a query about vendor name etc. That’s all I can tell based on crash log. I know how to work around that in code, so I should be able to fix that today, but I don’t know what workaround could I suggest for you in a meantime.

Well thanks in any case :slight_smile:

Sorry for delay. Please download these two files:
http://cdn.unrealengine.com/qfe/QFE-FromCL-2034640-Shelve-2048959.
http://cdn.unrealengine.com/qfe/UnrealEngine_QFE_2039063.dmg

When you get them, install Unreal Engine app from UnrealEngine_QFE_2039063.dmg to your /Applications folder, then open Terminal app and type:

open /Applications/Unreal\ Engine.app --args -noselfupdate

-noselfupdate argument is important because without it app would update to official version that doesn’t work for you. I will update this thread once a new official build containing this fix will be available.

After you download engine using Unreal Engine app, unzip QFE-FromCL-2034640-Shelve-2048959. and run patch installer it contains. After that you should be able to use editor etc. You can start editor by launching it directly: /Users/Shared/UnrealEngine/4.0/Engine/Binaries/MacUE4Editor.app.

Sorry for inconvenience. We should have a new build very soon, so this is only temporary solution.

I am having exact same issue as poster describes. However I’m on OSX 10.9.4 and trying to Launch UE 4.4.0.

How do I solve this issue. quick fix posted above is dated April’14, for a different version of UE.

Thanks for help!

Hey

Sorry you’re having some trouble getting started. Please give us as much information as you can as requested above, starting with:

OK, so please launch it, then open
Activity Monitor from
/Applications/Utilities, find Unreal
Engine Launcher on list of processes,
select it, then use View->Sample
Process to generate info with details
about what is it doing, save it as
text file and attach here.

Also, what Mac model do you use?

Thank you!

Hey, I just saw that you posted a new question here:

Go ahead and post as much information as you can there, and we’ll address issue there. Thanks!

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Hi Criststone,

Please open a new post in Installation & Setup section with as many details as you can provide, including your machine specs and screenshots if possible, and we will address issue there. Thank you.