Unreal Engine 5 is Garbage

[TomasaurusREKT]

Why do developers keep using this engine?? It runs like garbage, doesn't look any better than most, and if there's some crap you can do in it that can't be done others I've yet to see anyone implement it.

Unreal Engine makes no sense. It runs well when it wants, and garbage when it wants. I can't even see anything that triggers it. I can play through an area with my graphics on high, run 50-70 fps with no stutters. Reload a save and play the SAME EXACT area when it decides to run like crap, lower all the graphics, upscale from 720p, and be in the teens for fps.

I don't get it. It's not just Stalker either, it's almost every game that uses this damn engine. I wish devs would just quit using this piece of ♥♥♥♥ or stop releasing full price big games on it until it gets figured out...

Rant over, besides Unreal Engine being more bipolar than my ex-gf, I am loving the game!

[MindlessTeef]

Oddly enough Remnant 2 uses UE5 and run perfectly for me... where Stalker 2 runs at 4 FPS.

So yes, AGREED! UE5 needs some serious optimisation! Some of this I suppose will be down to GSC Game World rather then Epic? I did really love the X-Ray engine, and the A Life module, from the original 3 games.

For me, the most impressive game engine I have encountered is Apex, from Avalanche Studios. Specifically, Generation Zero, which I played on a Vega 8 (on chip GPU of the Ryzen 3 3200G CPU). GPU shortage when I bought this game, took a while for me to get a older GPU from a supplier. Generation Zero looked amazing and played great on the Vega 8.

More recent, Alan Wake 2 (Northlight Engine) runs well on my outdated GPU, looks rather good as well on low settings. Much more impressive then the slide show UE5 manages with Stalker 2!

Thanks for the mod suggestion Dae! I'll give this a try... looking to purchase a new GPU next year, after Nvidia and AMD launches their new generations. Intel launching their new GPU's this month I believe.

[Arch1]

UE5 best engine now, its the future

[Jacket113]

Originally posted by Greyfire:

Originally posted by Scialit Bomber Clotter:

Oh ok, from a pro then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ov9GhEV3eE

Great.

Maybe that's where the post should have started...

🤷‍♂️

P.S. way to shake your pompoms, by the way...

lol look at the salty try hard. he proved you wrong little guy now go back to your furry games

[Loner]

UE5 is incredibly powerful and a great tool.
The complete opposite of OP hardware.

[Leadwerks Software]

It's not the engine, it's every other aspect of the engine and everyone using the engine. But definitely not the engine. No way, that's just crazy.

[pambapuma]

It's all about the ease of on-boarding assets made en-mass overseas, literally nothing else.

[KingDoogan]

I use UE5 on my 1070.

Optimisation is up to the Devs, rich Devs use lazy upscaling techniques and force DX12.

Not everyone can afford the best of the best to support that.

That I understand.

But people be blaming the tool, even tho it has the options to support DX9 or just switch to Vulkan rendering. (It's easy to implement these options)

UE5 is optimised for high end latest graphics, developers are optimised to their own limitations.

I don't agree with the whole "upgrade your gear to the latest thing, to support the latest software"

It just creates so much e-waste, but they will remove the charger plug for phones to create less of it?

Microsoft forced you to upgrade for windows 11.

Triple "A" companies force you to upgrade to play their games.

There is no logic behind these forced limitations, AI upscaling & wasteful electronics.

Next year, we will get more stuff to support more of all of this new software related BS.

So why waste so much money on something that won't last long? 20 series is a grand example of that (RTX testing units, nothing more, nothing useful, just a trial)

But anyway, imbeciles will give in and throw their credit cards onto it.

Because only those who can't afford the gear, won't be allowed access to the tools. The elitist scum want to gatekeep these tools from public access one day and reap the profits. (Force you to buy their low end crud consoles and away from a bright smart computer, to keep humans stupid)

They can throw money at people to disagre, all you can do is not support the companies that force it. Simple.

[mookymook]

Originally posted by Bastila Shan:

The problem isn’t the engine it’s the laziness of developers not creating new assets or optimising the game since they just slop dlss and frame gen on it instead.

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[HiggsLP]

The main problem with latest games is that graphic settings dont scale much-
Low to Epic settings u dont win any fps nor does it make much difference in visual fidelity.

Though Stalker2 on New Save slot and on 1.3.2 looks more clear, views to distance are better- garbage to u can see Pripyay now, and runs smoother albeit having in average lower fps(somehow rostok still tanks fps).