UE5 in particular is the bane of my existence…

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  1. gaminggod69

    I do not feel like this applies to expedition 33

  2. Hwordin

    Split Fiction was fine I think, The Finals and Arc Raiders from Embark run good too.
    Skill issue 👀

  3. TheReaperAbides

    UE5 is just a really popular engine in general, mostly for good reason.

  4. Lostdog861

    God damn does it look beautiful though

  5. theDefa1t

    Yup. Halo moving to ue5 was such a bad call

  6. SurburbanGorilla

    Don’t forget the smeared graphics!

  7. maybeidontexistever

    Love the random stutters in Dead by Daylight

  8. kiwi_pro

    Meanwhile Tokyo extreme racer running on a GTX 1050ti

  9. swashed-up-01

    it does not look realistic it looks like BS because of all the texture sampling

  10. 53180083211

    UE: proud sponsor of Borderlands stutter since 2012

  11. MrJotaL

    Ppl who don’t understand game dev post stuff like this. It’s not the engine fault if a game is poorly optimized, its the devs.

  12. DrTankHead

    I love how people are literally shitting or the most advanced gaming engine to date, because some developers aren’t properly using it, and somehow that’s immediately the engine’s fault.

  13. JaggedMetalOs

    AAA devs be like: “we’re paying for the whole Unreal engine we’re gonna use the whole Unreal engine!” (checks all the rending and post process effects on)

  14. BeerGogglesFTW

    I recently started playing Fortnite and it’s pretty surprising how poorly that game runs on “Ultra” settings.

    I would expect it to be more like Valorant where you turn everything up all the way and still get 500 fps. (Slight exaggeration there, because it is bigger with more scenery detail – But even Apex Legends can be maxed out and get like 300 fps)

    The game scales really well, but ultra settings are not worth the hit. I don’t even get 100fps @ 1440p. It’s just bizarre for what it looks like. I expect that more from like, Helldivers 2 that’s built on an old dead engine. But Fortnite is like a flagship game for Unreal and Epic Games.

  15. GGG_lane

    Ever notice when a game drops a sequal that “looks better” but runs much worse

    And then you lower the graphics so it runs better, but now it looks worse then its previous entry

    But also still runs worse….

    UpGrAdEs

  16. HolyDori

    You know how too stop this as a consumer?

    **Stop Buying and demand change.**

    However people will buy it complain and then continue complaining. The psychology of western consumers is pretty brain dead.

  17. SnowChickenFlake

    also works with *unrealistic looking, but trying to look realistic poorly optimized game*

  18. cateringforenemyteam

    Its funny cause till UE3 it was exactly the opposite. When I saw unreal I knew game is gonna look good and play smooth.

  19. I’m straight up just not gonna buy games made in UE5 anymore, they all run like shit

  20. diggyou

    Wait a minute. Are you saying the people who make Fortnite, one of the most poorly optimized games with basic graphics, made a poorly optimized game engine!??!?

  21. UE5 is only a little better than UE4 in realism. That little bit was enough for hollywood to switch to using it but for games 1 frame every 8 to 11 minutes is not acceptable. So game developers tune down the settings on lighting and reduce polygon count to something reasonable like 20k polygons per character. This reduces realism but increases performance by a lot. Video games also seem to not use the A/V sync AI tool but motion capture data most likely as it is used for a game where no one is real instead of finishing a movie where an actor either got fired or died during production.

    So Unreal Engine 5 can produce realistic graphics but your frame rate will seem like a slide show as that part of the game engine is made for making movies not making games.

  22. AMS_Rem

    UE5 on it’s own is not the problem here btw.. It has a metric fuck ton of tools that can be used for proper optimization

  23. SpiderMonkey6l

    It’s wild how I can play cyberpunk on its max settings (with quality diss and without ray tracing) just fine on my 3060ti, but I can’t even get a steady 30 fps on the majority of unreal engine 5 games on low and performance diss.

  24. stingertc

    Avowed has played great since launch for me at least

  25. DontKnowHowToEnglish

    Watching the flat frametimes on the new Doom Is mesmerizing, that is what they took from us

    UE4 was terrible and the new one ended up being somewhat worse

  26. NaughtyPwny

    Ah yes, PCMR hates all game engines. Y’all are insufferable.

  27. thebat_ba

    and they be like “just buy a new pc it’s not that deep”

  28. Greasy-Chungus

    You have no idea what optimization even means.

  29. sephirothbahamut

    Meanwhile Wuthering Waves runs great even on my smartphone and has breathtaking environments on PC like Avinoleum. It uses Unreal Engine.

    It’s not the engine’s fault, it’s how the studios use the engine.

  30. Seven-Arazmus

    As someone in school for Game Dev and using UE 5.5.4 on a daily basis. I can tell you guys that poor optimization is not taught in school but its a product of a lazy dev or studio.

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