Closing out the viewport before exiting, causes startup crash

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Hi Epic,

Using Engine 4.4 Github version, We have found that if you close the viewport window right before you exit the editor, it will prevent the editor from re-opening.

When the editor starts back up, it will load to a point “Discovering Assets”, and then just hard shutdown or close out. To fix this problem, I removed the Editorlayout config file to a default version. It then will open up just fine.

I can repeat this bug over and over. I hope this helps :slight_smile:

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Hey Devero!

I’m trying to reproduce this issue here at the office. Which hotfix on 4.4 are you using? 4.4.0, 4.4.1, or 4.4.2? Are you just clicking the viewport’s ‘X’ and then clicking the editor’s ‘X’?

When we do that, it doesn’t have any problems starting back up. Do you have any other details you can give us that would help us get a repro?

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Our github version is 4.4.0 for the problem. Steps we take:

1) click the orange triangle in the upper left hand corner of the viewport to make it a tab
2) Then hit the "X" 
3) File Menu, Exit the editor
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I just downloaded the 4.4.2 launcher and downloaded the vehicle project as a test.

The first test did not reproduce it. However, I did another test but I closed out all of the windows including the toolbar. finally, I closed the game out when the last tab was open “Desert Rally Race”, I hit the “X” on that. On startup, I get a crash report.

!Id:48ac21d651f64e5e9d6394cf4978e528

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

I am unable to open back the project at all. However, the same fix works. I copy over the Editorlayout.ini and all is well again.

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Ok, I did some more testing… as much as I could endure opening and closing the Editor over and over… :slight_smile:

I can reproduce it over and over by doing the above steps except to also close out the content browser before exiting. Everythime, I startup I get a crash report. Same… fix.

This was for the Launcher version 4.4.2 & Vehicle Game project. Hope that helps!

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Hey, Devero,

I appreciate the followup! I finally managed to reproduce the crash. I’m reporting it internally now, and we’ll get someone on it ASAP.

Thanks,

Jonathan

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Good news! This crash is fixed on our internal build. That means the fix should be implemented in a future release.

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Great news, thanks for the quick follow up. :slight_smile: