Hi there, I’m trying to get the Deadline Submission plugin to work in UE 5.3 but I’m getting the following error message after clicking “Render (Remote)”:
Error: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
And here is the full log out of UE:
LogLinker: Warning: Failed to load ‘/Engine/MovieRenderPipeline/Editor/QueueManifest’: Can’t find file.
LogSavePackage: Moving output files for package: /Temp/MovieRenderPipeline/QueueManifest
LogSavePackage: Moving ‘…/…/…/…/…/…/Users/FFV_2025_1/Documents/Unreal Projects/MyProject/Saved/QueueManifestB9C5E3F144E50612D038A597000B9CEF.tmp.utxt’ to ‘…/…/…/…/…/…/Users/FFV_2025_1/Documents/Unreal Projects/MyProject/Saved/MovieRenderPipeline/QueueManifest.utxt’
LogPython: Deadline job command line args: MoviePipelineEntryMap?game=/Script/MovieRenderPipelineCore.MoviePipelineGameMode -NoLoadingScreen -FixedSeed -log -Unattended -MRQInstance -deterministicaudio -audiomixer -nohmd -windowed -ResX=1280 -ResY=720 -dpcvars=“sg.ViewDistanceQuality=4,sg.AntiAliasingQuality=4,sg.ShadowQuality=4,sg.GlobalIlluminationQuality=4,sg.Re
flectionQuality=4,sg.PostProcessQuality=4,sg.TextureQuality=4,sg.EffectsQuality=4,sg.FoliageQuality=4,sg.ShadingQuality=4,r.TextureStreaming=0,r.ForceLOD=0,r.SkeletalMeshLODBias=-10,r.ParticleLODBias=-10,foliage.DitheredLOD=0,foliage.ForceLOD=0,r.Shadow.DistanceScale=10,r.Shadow.RadiusThreshold=0.001000,r.ShadowQuality=5,r.ViewDistanceScale=50,r.D3D12.GPUTimeout=0,r.Streaming.SyncStatesWhenBlocking=1,GeometryCache.Streamer.BlockTillFinishStreaming=1,GeometryCache.Streamer.ShowNotification=0,a.URO.Enable=0,au.NeverMuteNonRealtimeAudioDevices=1,r.SkyLight.RealTimeReflectionCapture.TimeSlice=0,r.
VolumetricRenderTarget=1,r.VolumetricRenderTarget.Mode=3,wp.Runtime.BlockOnSlowStreaming=0,p.Chaos.ImmPhys.MinStepTime=0,r.SkipRedundantTransformUpdate=0,p.ChaosCloth.UseTimeStepSmoothing=0” -execcmds=“r.HLOD 0,py mrq_rpc.py” -waitonassetregistry
LogPython: Error: Failed to submit job NewLevelSequence1 to Deadline, aborting render.
Error: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
LogPython: Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Program Files/Epic Games/UE_5.3/Engine/Plugins/MoviePipelineDeadline/Content/Python\remote_executor.py”, line 171, in execute
deadline_job_id = self.submit_job(
File “C:\Program Files/Epic Games/UE_5.3/Engine/Plugins/MoviePipelineDeadline/Content/Python\remote_executor.py”, line 475, in submit_job
return deadline_service.submit_job(deadline_job)
File “C:\Program Files/Epic Games/UE_5.3/Engine/Plugins/UnrealDeadlineService/Content/Python\deadline_service.py”, line 352, in submit_job
job_id = DeadlineCommand().submit_job(job_data)
File “C:\Program Files/Epic Games/UE_5.3/Engine/Plugins/UnrealDeadlineService/Content/Python\deadline_command.py”, line 120, in submit_job
proc = subprocess.Popen(args, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, startupinfo=startupinfo)
File “C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.3\Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\Python3\Win64\lib\subprocess.py”, line 951, in init
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File “C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.3\Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\Python3\Win64\lib\subprocess.py”, line 1420, in _execute_child
hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
Does anyone have an idea where the problem might be?
Thanks in advance for any help!