Open Visual Studio Code Not Appearing in Unreal Engine

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I’m trying to start the second game in [Unreal Engine 5 C++ Developer: Learn C++ & Make Video Games] but in lesson 43 I’m not getting the Open Visual Studio Code option in Tools. I’ve followed the videos step by step since lesson 1 and even reinstalled Visual Studio Code the way it was shown in the lesson but no matter what I’ve tried the option does not appear. In the lesson they give an alternative if the option does not appear which is to find the .codeworkspace file but that file never appears. I’ve gone through the steps in this video about 5 or 6 times and it never shows up. I also tried to Refresh Visual Studio Code Project, but I don’t have that option either. The only 2 options in my Tools menu are New C++ Class and Generate Visual Studio Code. I tried clicking Generate Visual Studio Code to see if that would fix it but instead it gave me this error:

An error occurred while trying to generate project files.

Running C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_5.0/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool/UnrealBuildTool.exe -projectfiles -project=“C:/Users/silva/OneDrive/Documents/Unreal Projects/ObstacleAssault/ObstacleAssault.uproject” -game -rocket -progress
Log file: C:\Users\silva\AppData\Local\UnrealBuildTool\Log_GPF.txt

Some Platforms were skipped due to invalid SDK setup: IOS, Android, Linux, LinuxArm64, TVOS.
See the log file for detailed information

Discovering modules, targets and source code for project…
ERROR: UnrealBuildTool has banned the MSVC 14.32.31326-14.32.31328 toolchains due to compiler issues. Please install a different toolchain from the Visual Studio installer.

I’ve always wanted to learn to make games and thought this course would be a good way to learn while I was on break but without being able to Open Visual Studio Code I can’t continue. Any help would be appreciated!

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What operating system are you using? I have the exact version it’s talking about installed (14.32.3132) and it’s compiling.

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I have windows but I’m not sure how to check which version I have whether 14.32.3132 or something different. Could you tell me how to find that so I can hopefully give you a better idea of what the issue is and maybe get this working so I can continue in the course.

Thanks

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Sorry I should have been more clear. What version of Windows? 10? 11?

To be clear that is the version of the compiler. You can check the version by going to where you installed Visual Studio and then

2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build

And opening the text file “Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default”

Using the default path that would be in

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build
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That I can do, I’m currently running Windows 10 and it’s updated to the latest version. As for the compiler I have version 14.32.31326. Is there a way to go back to a previous version? In this case version 14.32.3132, and if so, how would I go about doing that?

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As far as I know you can only go back to a previous 14 release i.e. 14.31 or 14.30 (or at least easily do that).

You can do that via Start Menu > Visual Studio Installer > Modify > Individual components > search for “MSVC x86”

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I am curious why you get that but I don’t though as you aren’t the first.

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I followed the steps and I have that same box checked already. Should I check one of the different versions like 14.31 or 14.32?

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Latest is 14.32 currently, so if you wanted to try an older version I would suggest 14.31.

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So uncheck latest and try v14.32-17.2? I’ll try that but unfortunately I’m in the process of moving so I probably won’t be able to try this for about a month. Since this topic will close in 20 days I guess I’ll just make a new post if it doesn’t fix it. But thanks for the help so far!

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Sorry that was an unfortunate typo. I meant 14.31

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ok that makes sense thanks. Like I said I unfortunately can’t try it for about a month since I’m not home right now but I appreciate the help

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