UE5 Is great for devs, but horrible for gamers.

[CAUSTIC]

I feel like UE5 is both a wonderful development tool where you can create with more ease than ever before. The downside is horrible performance. Every UE5 game I've played so far is crippled by horribly overtuned lighting and rendering effects that practically mandate upscaling. Pc gaming is becoming an elitist platform where only the rich can enjoy it. Kinda makes me sad that performance is secondary nowadays.

[Sik Style]

Yeah this game is not playable even on a 1 thousand dollar gaming pc. All the people saying my pc is a toaster is a chad and daddy bought them a 10k dollar pc

[Saint]

Agree

[Dorek]

Unreal 5 is fairly good for rtx 40 series, but i dunno what its like playing on lower stuff.

[CAUSTIC]

Originally posted by Sik Style:

Yeah this game is not playable even on a 1 thousand dollar gaming pc. All the people saying my pc is a toaster is a chad and daddy bought them a 10k dollar pc

Yeah, my pc isnt top tier, but it shouldn't be struggling this hard.

CPU: 12900k
RAM: 32GB DDR5 @5600 (I think)
GPU: RTX 3080ti
M.2 SSD

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Global illumination setting past low is ray tracing up to path tracing and it seems to be the issue to most UE5 designed games, I turned it to low for this game which is Static and the game runs much better and hardly or if any loss of quality in that aspect I can not tell the difference graphics wise but game play feel wise yes it is a hell of a lot better without that crap

[Sousou]

UE5 is a great engine but devs are always doing the same mistake by using nanite and lumen ( no these techs are not ready for game production )

[Saint]

Marek Rabas said on X that optimizations will come soon, maybe from that point 20 series and 30 series will enjoy the game too.

[Casper Poor]

Wait until you find out about Unity and certain urban area map in certain russian game that runs worse than this game does on some configurations

[Sunbather]

Same was true for UE4. Game's ran so much worse than those which stuck with UE3. Until Epic fixed it and people gradually got better systems. Now the circle continuous with UE5 and will go on and on with UE6 and UE7 and UE Ultimate.

I've just remembered when UE2 came out and with it Unreal 2 --- dang, did that game run badly even on highend systems.

[CAUSTIC]

Originally posted by Casper Poor:

Wait until you find out about Unity and certain urban area map in certain russian game that runs worse than this game does on some configurations

I usually have pretty decent performance on "the russian game", but I always play SPT. Keep in mind, that's in 4k with DLSS no frame gen. This game needs upscaling so drastic just to get 80 fps WITH frame gen, I can't even tell what I'm looking at lol.

[Shev]

Originally posted by Sunbather:

I've just remembered when UE2 came out and with it Unreal 2 --- dang, did that game run badly even on highend systems.

Whew, now that takes me back. Seeing pictures of Unreal 2 in gaming mags made me drool; and to finally get the demo and see how my machine screamed and chugged trying to render all those glorious details. What a time to be alive and see how far we've come, eh?

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Originally posted by Sousou:

UE5 is a great engine but devs are always doing the same mistake by using nanite and lumen ( no these techs are not ready for game production )

Indeed agreed more used for showcasing or media development type game stuff not for in game when playing use

[MarkCX]

RTX 2060 Super
Ryzen 5 5600G
16gb DDR4 3200Mhz
Nvme 1tb with over 500gb available

Cant even go remotely above lowest settings possible and im using FSR which is the only setting that gets me 60fps. Game will use all of your CPU cores but less than 50% of your GPU.


Great game but terrible preformance. Not to mention they are pushing to release this game on console

[Jimmy James]

Just need more graphics options. Tons of things aren't adjustable like depth of field, volumetric clouds, probably a bunch of lighting effects. Hopefully they can strike a balance between gameplay issues like visibility and performance because the key to a big hit is good performance on lower end systems.

There's no shader pre caching so it will run like ass on any system for about 20-30 minutes (and after every driver update too).

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Originally posted by CAUSTIC:

I feel like UE5 is both a wonderful development tool where you can create with more ease than ever before. The downside is horrible performance. Every UE5 game I've played so far is crippled by horribly overtuned lighting and rendering effects that practically mandate upscaling. Pc gaming is becoming an elitist platform where only the rich can enjoy it. Kinda makes me sad that performance is secondary nowadays.

If you have potato pc yes.