Can't Launch Projects - Missing UE4 Game Binary

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First let me say I know that there are a ton of answers on here regarding this, however none seem to touch on the issue I’m having - none of my projects will launch, even if I create a new project from the provided templates. I’m also fairly new to all of this and don’t know a whole lot about the programming side of things, so please bear with my dumb questions.

This is the error I get in the output log when attempting to launch:

PackagingResults:Error: Error Launch failed! Missing UE4Game binary.
You may have to build the UE4 project with your IDE. Alternatively, build using UnrealBuildTool with the commandline:
UE4Game

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!!

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Hello,

  • Are you attempting to launch a blueprint or C++ project?
  • Do you have Visual Studio 2015 installed, including the necessary C++ and Common Tools content?
  • What platform are you attempting to launch to?
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Do you have Visual Studio installed?

Visual Studio 2013 for engine version 4.9 or earlier.
Visual Studio 2015 for engine version 4.10 or newer.

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  • It’s a blueprint project. At this point, just a bunch of assets placed into the default FirstPerson template. Only blueprinting I’ve done so far is triggering basic matinee sequences.

  • Yes, Visual Studio should be all good.*

  • Just launching to desktop (WindowsNoEditor?)

  • It seems Visual Studio needed and update that it hadn’t done automatically. That issue seems to have been solved, except now it won’t launch due to the Kinect4Unreal plugin which is a whole other issue, it seems. Suppose I’ll have to post in another section of the forum for that.
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I am glad to hear that you were able to resolve your initial issue. Please do create another post regarding the Kinect4Unreal issue.

Have a great day

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Wait so? how did you figure it out? i’m having the same problem too! I posted my question here

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Do you have the C++ and Common Tools additional content that is required to run 4.10?

Also, which version of Visual Studio 2015 are you using? Do you have update 1?