Global Shader Missing On Startup

So I’ve had trouble getting UE4 to recognize my uproject files for my c++ projects (and all projects for that matter) the way it’s supposed to. When I attempt to open my project directly from a uproject I’m met with the following prompt:

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On top of this, I am not able to generate VS files like I should. Some help would be EXTREMELY appreciated.