Light Function Materials containing a Texture Sample and Rotator nodes will fail RHI Validation

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Jan 12, 2026

Using a Light Function Material that contains a Texture Sample and Rotator nodes will cause RHI Validation to fail with the following error: LogOutputDevice: Error: Ensure condition failed: Bindings ...

FViewElementPDI::DrawLine calls for SDPG_World are not rendered in PIE or in Game

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Jan 7, 2026

When View.Family->EngineShowFlags.CompositeEditorPrimitives is false in the function RenderEditorPrimitivesForDPG. This code picks which version of the batched lines to renderconst FBatchedElements ...

Morph Targets fail to reset to zero

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Jan 6, 2026

"We have encountered a regression in UE 5.7 where Skeletal Mesh Morph Targets do not visually reset when all weights are set to 0.0. The mesh retains the deformation from the previous frame. This i ...

Virtual Memory leak when using specific rendering settings in the template project

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Dec 20, 2025

When a project is run with these settings in a template project, untracked virtual memory increases. Cvars r.GBufferFormat 3 r.Lumen.TraceMeshSDFs 1 r.Lumen.TranslucencyReflections.FrontLayer.Enab ...

Skeletal Mesh BLAS updates when not animating

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Dec 19, 2025

The BLAS for Skeletal Meshes that don't move, or tick get updated every frame even if the animation and skin cache aren't updated. This adds over 1ms to update time. The only exception is if the sk ...

Texture Streaming can randomly streams in all Mips, causing large memory spikes

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Dec 5, 2025

A possible race condition allows texture instance views to read uninitialized bounds, causing either garbage or zero screen size values to be returned by FRenderAssetInstanceAsyncView::GetRenderAsse ...

Crash on 5.7 when running with the Vulkan RHI and async compute

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Dec 4, 2025

Making this a placeholder for now. Will fill out the description asap ...

Unreal Engine Fails to Launch with Vulkan SM6 RHI and RenderDoc Auto-Attach Enabled

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Dec 3, 2025

When launching Unreal Engine with the Vulkan RHI, SM6 and RenderDoc Auto Attach on Startup enabled, the engine fails to initialize with the error: “A compatible Vulkan Driver is required to run the ...

Pass names appear as "RDGEvent" in Unreal Insights when r.rhisetgpucaptureoptions=1

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Dec 2, 2025

When capturing a trace in Unreal Insights, all r.rhisetgpucaptureoptions=1 (r.RDG.Events=3) all RDG pass events appear simply as RDGEvent, without the actual name due to the logic for RDG_EVENT_SCOP ...

Placed render targets are not initialized properly in D3D12

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Nov 21, 2025