Dmitry Kazantsev

Question How can I configure JetBrains Rider to seamlessly work with multiple versions of Unreal Engine, particularly when building an Unreal Engine plugin across different versions? Answer JetBrai...

Symptoms Updating Rider fails on a disk that has about 2.7 GB of free space. The update process starts but then stops with an error about insufficient disk space (the exact wording may vary by ins...

Question: Is it possible to edit the file templates used by Rider to create Unreal Engine entities? Answer: Yes, it is possible. In fact, the file templates used by engine are stored in the engine ...

The “Internal mode” is designed by Rider developers for testing purposes: it adds additional assertions and diagnostics and enables exception reporting. In production builds, exceptions are silentl...

Question While working in Rider IDE, the CPU usage becomes high and/or IDE becomes noticeably slow. How to troubleshoot such an issue? Answer It is worth noting Rider IDE is split into two mandator...

Problem Unreal Engine project can be launched with Editor target fine, but if trying to launch Game target, the error occurs. Error on Mac: LogProjectManager: Error: Failed to open descriptor fil...

Problem RiderLink fails to install. Errors like above are seen in output: C:\Users\brian\AppData\Local\Temp\UnrealLink\Gytakur\HostProject\Plugins\RiderLink\Source\RD\ thirdparty\spdlog\include\s...

Question How to How to develop C++ GdExtensions with Rider on Linux? Answer Starting from 2026.1 Rider supports CMake, which allows building/running/debugging CMake projects. There is a template fo...

Problem Can't sign in Azure using Azure CLI tools. Device login doesn't work. Cause The stable version of the "Azure Toolkit for Rider" (v3) is installed. Sign in using these approaches doesn't ...

Background/Situation JetBrains marketplace contains preview versions of plugins. It can be downloaded from the webpage which then requires manual installation via "Install from disk". Question Is...