HZB Occlusion causes large stalls on the render thread

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Oct 7, 2025

HZB Occlusion causes large stalls (greater than 5ms seen) on the render thread due to an RHI flush. This is caused by the following code in FDynamicRHI::RHIMapStagingSurface_RenderThread which force ...

FD3D12BindlessResourceManager::GrowCPUHeap will cause GPU heap activation whether it's needed or not

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Sep 11, 2025

The ctor of FD3D12BindlessResourceManager implies that GPU heap activation is intended to occur lazily with ERHIBindlessConfiguration::RayTracingShaders, however any call to FD3D12BindlessResourceMa ...

Enabling STATS causes RenderThread to wait for GPU

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Sep 10, 2025

The licensee noticed that in Development builds, the Render thread times are suspiciously similar to GPU times, and the same thing happens when enabling FORCE_USE_STATS in Test configuration. The is ...

Missing PSO Precaches in the engine

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Aug 20, 2025

A licensee wanted to report some missing PSO Precaching they found, which they have fixed locally: 1. UCableComponent doesn't implement CollectPSOPrecacheData or call CheckPSOPrecachingAndBoostPri ...

Performance slowdown when ray tracing is disabled due to SetResidencyPriority

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Jul 17, 2025

When a game is compiled with ray tracing disabled (D3D12_RHI_RAYTRACING=0) and the GPU the game is running on becomes low on VRAM, frame time is negatively impacted and doesn't recover. The D3D12_RH ...

Bindless Textures in active use are able to be garbage collected

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Jul 9, 2025

It is possible for textures referenced in the bindless texture data assets that are actively used in materials being rendered in the active viewport to be garbage collected. This results in the mat ...

GPU event descriptions are not properly formatted in Insight

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Jun 24, 2025

Context Unreal Insights displays Timing Insights that can include GPU timing information. Rendering code such as FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::RenderPrePass() generate such events.Problem Certain f ...

Fix up GPU breadcrumb labels for Intel performance analysers

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Jun 13, 2025

A licensee has brought up that the GPU breadcrumbs are incorrectly displayed with traces taken on the Intel GPU Analyzer tools (see screenshot). It looks like the format string is being passed on in ...

Scene with texture collection crashes when dumping a full memreport

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - May 28, 2025

A licensee has reported that generating a full memreport of a packaged project which uses a texture collection leads to a crash. ...