Unable to connect to the local Asset Processor

I have the same issue after updating to 1.8 however all seems to work even when the message pop up.just few times I had some problems with it(thigs that didn't get processed at all) that goes fixed after asset processor restart.

Hi @REDACTEDUSER

Hi @REDACTEDUSER

For some Reason, closing the asset processor and restarting lumberyard works for me. Kill the process from Task Manager or just closing it from the tray seems to do the trick.

Thanks for sharing @REDACTEDUSER

I was having the same issue, and found that the 1.8 asset processor was being blocked by Bitdefender as a possible malicious file. Clicked on "Allow and monitor", enabled a couple network dialogs, and now it works fine...

No problem with 1.6... Issue only started with 1.8.

Hope it helps!

sorry to bump such an old post but i had this same problem and fixed it so i thought id add my solution. it would seem my computer is blocking the port but i was an able to find out what program was blocking it. so what i did was opened the bootstrap.cfg in the /dev directory located -- remote_port=45643 and removed the "--" to un comment it and changed the port to 45642. opened Project Configurator changed to an other project and back to the project that i was having problems with. switching seems to reload bootstrap.cfg