Crash on play (Macbook Pro)

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My UE4 crashes consistently (every time) I either import the car from the Wheeled Vehicle tutorial, and then assign bone names to the wheels, and then press play, AND it also crashes every time I have a Character who turns into a ragdoll during Play mode. In the latter case, the character ragdolls on the floor for a couple seconds and then it crashes. Every time.

What I am curious is: will updating UE4 fix these crashes? I’m using 4.0.2. My computer has 16GB RAM, it’s the latest MacBook Pro version. I don’t want to pay for an update if it’s not going to fix the crashing… I understand that no one can give me a 100% certain answer, but any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks for your help.

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Hi sotroll,

I’m following up to see if you are continuing to experience frequent crashes on your Macbook Pro when you import a car or have a character ragdoll. If so, have you tried updating to the 4.6 version of the engine? This latest release contains a lot of fixes to reported bugs as well as a lot of great new features.

If you are not able to update or are still encountering the same problem after updating, please let us know by responding to this post and we will investigate the matter further.

Thanks

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Hi sotroll,

I have not heard back from you in a few days, so I am marking this post as Resolved for tracking purposes. If you are still experiencing this issue, please respond to this message with additional information and I will offer further assistance.

Thanks

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I ended up paying another $20 to update, to 4.4 I think? And that still didn’t fix it. I think it made it crash less soon, but still almost immediately after ragdolls ended up on the floor.

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Hi sotroll,

While I was not able to reproduce a crash on our Mac, I did experience unusual behavior with the physics asset on the default character running UE4.4.3 on OS X 10.10.1. However, running UE4.6 the physics responded as expected.

You did not mention which version of OS X you are running but it is advised the most stable combination on a Mac is OS X Yosemite and UE 4.6. Depending on when you last updated you may be able to upgrade again at no cost.