Improve GPU Performance in Unreal Engine 5 by Allocating Maximum VRAM for Texture Streaming
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- In this really quick episode I cover how to improve GPU texture streaming performance by allocating more VRAM, basically how to use the full RAM of your graphics card for Texture Streaming in Unreal Engine 5.
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Love your work brother; honestly baffled by the amount of knowledge your dishing out, just like a river in the middle of a Sahara. Keep it up
Dude - this changed everything! I thought I had to get a new card ( Im sure I still do... but for now...) - thank you!
Thank you so much man, had a uni project due and couldn't even load into the level. Lifesaver!
Thank you so much I needed that, I'm tired of having to type streaming pool every time I open my level which is heavy on assets, Rock on!
🙏🏾 thank you my friend!!!
hey thanks very very much this changed everything and u saved my life thanks again from egypt😍😍🥰🥰❤❤
Salaam brother what are you working on?
nice my trees and everything are so smooth now, my AI is still a little laggy but i think that's something on my end
Great tip! Thanks!
thank you!
useful , and very specific,thnx alot !!!1
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Changing this setting with 5.2 of the engine version will use EXACTLY 0 and be always over budget. SO use the amount you need in percentage, I changed it to 90, checking the stability....
same with 5.3 Setting to 0 looks like my kid used a dull crayon to make the landscape.
@@lukelewis9927 Could you return it to how it was before? That is, is the process reversible? Or is the Unreal Engine already damaged?
I did this with mine in 5.3 and it worked fine and did nothing to my landscape...
Thank You! Does the Trick!!!
Thank you so much man 🙏🏾
Thank you so much
thank you
thank you very easy yet helfull tutorial
The problem with UE5; I had two GTX1080Ti on my PC, then bought RTX4090. Now, UE5 ALWAYS (!) chose slower GTX1080Ti over RTX4090. Why? And, there is no any preference to change that. In Blender, for example, I have choice to use only RTX4090... but not in UE5. Is there any hope? Any help?
This might be useful forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue-5-multi-gpu-support-not-sli-not-nvlink/231825
Not only UE5 will use your GTX1080Ti. PC builder here, your computer will always use the lower tier Graphic card as the main, the one with the lower VRAM, or else it will crash because your lower card can't keep up with the higher card. Best you can do is taking out your 1080Ti, use only the RTX4090.
not sure if this works for ue but if your on windows you can go to settings -> system -> display -> graphics settings -> browse for unreal engine (ue folder->engine->binaries->win64) and set to high performance
Just found this channel. Insta-sub.
another great video
thank you so much broo 😍😍
Thanks
Why isn't it done by default then? I'm not sure if it's the safe tip
are you not risking to kill your graphics card by doing this ?
love you bro
hi, please do tutorial - how preload "preparing shaders". If i start new level and use first time any niagara effects i have lags beacous "preparing shaders" starts..
I did that and I have a 3060TI screen card, but when I did that all the design colors disappeared, it seems that the situation requires a strong display card.
Could you return it to how it was before? That is, is the process reversible? Or is the Unreal Engine already damaged?
@@MauroMan_ no it’s someone else he’s telling me that video card should be upgrade of 3060 ti to 4080 ti or 4090 ti but I told him that’s I can’t buy it but maybe I need to wait for one year to buy it to get money.
@@spno22 aint that i got a 4070 super n ts still pops up
Friend asks if I change that to 0 does it affect anything? Will it look the same? Does it decrease the graphics or something? It's a question why the same thing happens to me when I already have many things on the map and another question if I put several accessories in my project, buildings etc. will it affect? thank you
Yes, the more assets you have on the screen at any given time, the more strained your graphics card will be. It's additive. I haven't tested it setting it to 0 😄
In UE 5.1 that settings does flatout not work, no matter if i set it to 10% or 100% the engine always fills up the entire vram and ultimately ends up crashing and i'm not even using particularly high resolution textures, most textures are 2k only big assets or closeup shots get 4k textures. So yeah, the engine is just broken to the point its borderline unuseable with a 3080. Not using any raytracing or stuff like that.
Yeah im currently having the same issue with my 3070, started a project yesterday and now whenever i launch it Vram usage goes straight up to 6.8GB and then at some point it will just flat out crash
@@NoblelllB I don't know if its placebo or not but i could swear that it gets oh so slightly worse everytime i launch the editor even if i dont change or import anything at all. Also i've set my editor startup map to a blank map so it should'nt even matter if i change something
@@NoblelllB also for me it doesnt happen all the time, sometimes i can work for some hours until vram gets full, sometimes it gets filled 5min after start so i doubt its an asset or map causing the issue. When it happens i can literally watch it happen, all fans ramp up to the max and when i look over at task manager i see the dedicated vram memory sky rockets to the max.
@@CheesyX2 i feel the same way its odd. Last night before i went to bed i had no problems. I had a few crashes on the 3-4 hours i was working on my project then today absolutely nothing has changed in my scene and it crashes constantly
@@NoblelllB Exactly the same for me. I even tried reinstalling the engine, clearing the caches, etc.
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Hello can you please tell me what the graph visualiser you are using in the bottom left corner is? I would really like to use something like that. Does it tell you when the game is hitching? because i am getting some in my game. What can it tell you about hitches? Thanks
Top left corner of viewport (viewport options dropdown) -> Stat -> Engine -> Detailed
Hey man, great, I did this command but the error persists.
Can you go back to how it was before?.. That is to say, is the process reversible?.., or, if the process damages the visualization somewhat, (as I read in some comments) is the Unreal Engine already damaged?
Its just an ini file. Change it back to the default values if u want to revert it back.
thanks for tip, is this related to the streaming pool size console command? every time i start my project i have to set my streaming pool size to my vram capacity. wish there was a way to set it for the whole engine globally.
Yes it's the same setting as the console command, but set for the project as a whole. I don't think there's a way to set this globally, but at least you do this once (for each project) and won't have to use the console command each time you boot up.
you can. Go tho the place where you installed Unreal engine. select your version for example 5.1
>Engine >Config and somewhere far below you'll find "BaseScalability" which you can open with the editor. In there, somewhere in the middle of the document, you'll find "(TextureQuality@0-cine)" and there you can change the texture streaming pool size for each quality.
@@Bagira33Hello, my friend. Thanks for the great information.
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Do you test unreal engine 5 on a gaming notebook too because without curent charging is really slow.unreal engine 4 run with no issues i check also the usage rate before and after to make sure therer is no safe mod if i run it.and all other things working
i will try but still skeptic. video memory is always not enough for me. unreal need to use shared memory on board pc ram. i know pc ram is slow but it still can avoid system crash.
Hi, I have a question, I just build my game and performance was really poor so I checked with Xbox home bar and I saw that GPU usage was at 99% and CPU at only 5% (Ryzen 3600x GTX 1660 6GB, 16GB ram), I don't know how to make the CPU run some process to help GPU not going at maximum, thanks.
Never believe Xbox game bar for cpu usage
But it doesnt slow down your pc? like if you have another program open at the same time? like blender
And how to apply this settings to packaged game ?
You would be the guy to ask what the best but not expensive gpu card for ue5 do i need more then a 10 GB card?
it helps. If you can afford it what I use is a 3080Ti and it works very well. On a budget a 2060Ti is very solid as well. You can do just fine with most things with a 2060Ti.
ive just changed it to =0 .......will this increase gpu for painting more than x3 paint layers on landscape ?
because x4 or x5 layers and im getting issues trying to paint .
how large is your landscape? It might be this issue here: ua-cam.com/video/KjVTdSRFeFY/v-deo.html
@@NumenBrothers i sorted it , i changed all the 8k, & 4k textures down to 2k , good tip of yrs though 👍
@@keterbinah3091 how you did that brother can you tell me?
i can't understand i have an RTX 3090 and some months ago i made a scene with Tropical island some water and nanite forest for FPS test, i had 60-80 fps all on Ultra settings with RTX ON and Lumen and Nanite, a few days ago i runned the same project and now have 30-40 FPS, i changed all Settings to Low and disabled RTX and Lumen and still have 40 fps, i dont have any FPS lock, i tried to reinstall GPU Drivers, today i tried with UE 5.2 and New Project and still 40 fps((
This might help get you started troubleshooting: unrealartoptimization.github.io/book/profiling/gpu-visualizer/
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كم لديك من vram ... كم التي كان مسموحاََ للمحرك بالوصول اليها قبل ما فعلته ... وكم اصبحت بعد ما فعلته ...
لدي 3080Ti الذي يحتوي على 12 جيجابايت من ذاكرة الوصول العشوائي. كما ذكرت في الفيديو ، لا أعتقد أنها ستكون مشكلة إذا لم أضع الكثير من الأصول (بقيمة 30 إلى 40 غيغابايت) في المستوى الفردي. لن تكون هذه مشكلة دائمة في اللعبة الشاملة التي نصنعها في السلسلة.
my card is 2060 6 gb what size should i put ?
you will always run out no mater what you set it to, 6gb is hardly anything these days
couldnt find epic games in Program files but found in program files (84) then i did not found ue5_1 why is it
@hovhannesabrahamyan4402 Click on the program files folder with no number after it.
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Any other good tips on engine performance?
Mostly they are sprinkled throughout the series in context to whatever we are doing. One that comes to mind though is GPU visualizer: unrealartoptimization.github.io/book/profiling/gpu-visualizer/
unfortunatly i cannt find any differce
i tested it with settiongit to 1,5,3,9,0 Also No deffence atall
can't this be done directly via console command? in reality all it's doing is writing to these ini files
yep, but I'm not sure it saves into the next session
Yeah it probably won't save when you exit the engine and reload.
Ok my level is farily small. About 200mx200m. I have a big grass area and a couple of trees but actually its not that big. Im already exceeding Vram by 6 GB and i have a rtx4070. Wth is even going on here?
it has nothing to do with the video but I want you to know if in the series for the skills you could create a type of armarura example of fire (made with niagara)? or implement an inventory function but for clothes and weapons
Hi Bohdan, regarding the first part, Niagara fire 'armor' (or something similar), hold tight until episode... 53. I think it will be close to what you're looking for. Regarding inventory for clothes and weapons, unfortunately it's not the kind of RPG we're making in this series. Clothes we will have to do, but I'm very much focused on core gameplay first, and then aesthetics after.
So this is probably at 70% so that when you launch your game your editor isn't taking 100%.. although ue5ed takes like 5gb with an empty editor so...Basically need a 4090 seems like lol
It doesn’t work what can i do now?
is rtx 2050 4gb good for unreal engine
?
It can run Unreal Engine
which gpu should i buy for unreal engine 5 currently i have 6700xt i have options 3070,3070ti, 3080,3080ti,3090(kind of out of budget but will try to get it if it worth it) please help sir
I have a 3080Ti and find it excellent, but I know it's expensive. I think any of those on your list will do very well. Try to get something with a high amount of GPU memory (3080 Ti has 12 GB and honestly I would have liked to have the 16 GB version, but more expensive)
sorry to bother but i had a seperate question, ive followed along through the tutorial and now im trying to get my character to do a dodge roll and still be able to throw a fire ball but when i roll it starts at the spine i put for the layer blend pose so only the lower portion goes, so i tried changing the bone to neck and i could roll but i couldnt throw fire ball, nevermind I was able to fix, thank you for all your videos your the best
Hi, thanks for the tip> how did you put your character into the game !? any link ! thx in advance
best way to see everything we've done on this channel is browse through the main playlist: ua-cam.com/video/THQImS6JyV8/v-deo.html
i thought this will boost my fps instead of crashing ue5.4 again
not Working BRo
Sub and liked due giving credit to an information that you dont own which is the opposite of wanna be cash grab uneducators
Great tip, but would it affect my video card’s lifespan?
No :)
Lifespan is more of a voltage thing (under/overclock)
Hey, maybe could you help me, I have a game on Steam but I have some feedbacks negative about loading time level too long, with a high machine like mine , first time to load the level it will take until 70 sec, but with slow machine, it will take until 3 minutes, plus, there is also a problem about textures blur, for this part, maybe the problem comes from directx12, I don't know ! the game weighs 20GB ! best regards..
you cant fix this problame with low Graphic card if have Graphic card like RTX you not get this problame
when I play the level in a new window (PIE)
the Metahuman character is moving his face with my motions very good, but when I click in any window other than the PIE window it starts to lag. and when I click again on the PIE window, the character moves normally !
what should I do ?
This is normal in PIE in my own experience. Not sure why it is though. Something to do with active memory perhaps.
thanks for your kind reply, the problem is that it was working well in my previous lost product, the problem is showing in my new project only !
Im using the same PC !@@NumenBrothers
finally I found the solution after 2 days of failling tries @@NumenBrothers
You can also use all cores for shader compiling in DefaultEngine
how?
@@1AnimeFinder In BaseEngine.ini of your engine.
1. NumUnusedShaderCompilingThreads=0 ; default is 3 cores
2. WorkerProcessPriority=-1 ; optional: change this to increase priority
can RTX 3050 run on unreal engine 5??
absolutely
GTX 1050 can run it, so 3050 can run too
This gives me worse performance on 5.2, btw. (higher numbers over VRAM budget, worse stutters.)
Sadly this made textures worse for me. RTX350 TI
Why is the memory poolsize actually limited?
I hypothesize it has to do with the fact that UE is aming to avoid GPU's overheating, crashes, etc.
Is rx 580 or gtx 1650 better for unreal engine
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even with this built UE5 is suddenly shutting down my PC..! Any optimization suggestion to run UE5 smoothly
Hey Abrar, it's probably heat related. Some guidance here: www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/uad1be/unreal_engine_5_makes_my_pc_shut_down/
www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/bmwhvk/engine_shuts_down_my_computer/
Is your specific issue: "GPU Crashed or d3d device removed"? If so, I recommend Googling the phrase: "gpu crashed or d3d device removed Unreal" And you'll get some good suggestions. Hope this helps get your started.
@@NumenBrothers THANKS...!
B550 F have not very powerfull VRM design, so it may be not enough to power processor at 100% load. Try to run UE5 limiting number of CPU cores used, if this will stop reboots - that's the case.
@@Короткоіясно-ь8р ok will try it, thanks
@@Короткоіясно-ь8р how I do it?
UE5 has the worst perfomance in an UE version in history... UE4.26 with LOD's has probably 3 times better FPS than UE5 and UE5.1 with nanite and lumen, and way less crashes and bugs, even UE5.1 sequencer is completly broken, causing lots of non expected issues in game (not in the cinematic viewport), there is even one bug that causes sequences not to be able to be recorded as a movie from the engine or UE5.1 might record from wrong camera's... from my end, UE5.1 is not production ready AT ALL... FPS is bad.... really bad, I have a RTX 3070 and I have never being able to get great performance on an secene, 60 FPS tops unclamping framerate, while UE4.26 might give me 200 FPS easy... and some consoles actually requeire 90 FPS for a game to be approved, so as for today, UE5.1 is usefull for cinematics, usless for videogame development 100%. Even in this video, FPS is bad.. no solutions for now, but I haven't tested UE5.2, so not sure if they have fixed a few of this issues.
Lol i am a GTX 1650 user and getting 100fps
@@rockeyplayz8477 100 FPS on an empty scene or basic stuff is terrible... once you populate the scene, FPS might drop to 70 or less, wich is the worst scenario... If you would like to release your game for PC, most clients will get between 45 to 60 FPS while console might luckily get 40FPS, just to give you an idea of how bad 100FPS in UE5 is... Nintendo Switch requires a minimun of 60 FPS, If you can't reach it, you can not release your game.
@@blakegt.7326 ok bro can u tell me how to optimise it any way you know
@@rockeyplayz8477 Basically... we (industry) are not using UE5, only UE4.26 (not even UE4.27 because it already introduced UE5 issues).... so, If you need UE5 optimization won't be enough, you depend on Epic to fix the engine in the future and they have being doing it very slowly, my recommendation, work with UE4.26, and when the engine (UE5) becomes more stable and have better FPS, then you update, from the industry point of view, UE5 new features (except lumen) are useless... including nanite, specially for console.
@@blakegt.7326 Can u tell me how to do lightning in ue 4.26.2 and if u have discord then give me ur id i have to ask you serveral questions.
You Just bad PC
Thanks