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 ...

Sequencer - When a subsection has negative play rate, any nested sub-subsections fail to evaluate

UE - Anim - Sequencer - Jul 3, 2025

Consider a sequence hierarchy with more than two layers. If the top-level sequence uses a negative timescale on a sub-sequence, the contents inside it animate as expected, but any nested sub-sequenc ...

Sphere Mask ArgInvHardness missing multiplication

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Jun 27, 2025

Hi Epic, In MaterialExpressions.cpp UMaterialExpressionSphereMask::Compile(), hardness is not calculated the same way in both <if> conditions. One is missing a multiplication by 0.01f. Specificall ...

TInstancedStruct used in native actor class loses reference to Instanced UObject after BP recompilation

UE - Foundation - Jun 25, 2025

When a TInstancedStruct contains a UObject marked with EditInlineNew and DefaultToInstanced, the reference is lost after compiling the Blueprint but only when the struct is part of a native Actor cl ...

Eye Adaptation Inverse node does not work with volumetric materials

UE - Graphics Features - Jun 23, 2025

The EyeAdaptionInverse node works differently for surface materials and volumetric materials. In surface materials, it allows to have a consistent glow during day and night time, however in a volume ...

Enabling bUpdateComponentTransformToRootBone in a GeometryCollectionComponent causes broken particles to appear in the wrong location

UE - Simulation - Physics - Destruction - Jun 22, 2025

Enabling bUpdateComponentTransformToRootBone in a GeometryCollectionComponent causes broken particles to appear in the wrong location. When that flag is true, the moment the GeometryCollection (GC) ...

Crash when using StaticDuplicateObject with mismathced Source and Destination class types

UE - Foundation - Jun 19, 2025

Starting in Unreal Engine 5.4, StaticDuplicateObject internally switched to using Unversioned Property Serialization (UPS) for performance reasons. However, UPS assumes the source and destination ob ...

Instanced Static Meshes ignore max World Position Offset Displacement for bounds after UpdateInstanceTransform is called

UE - Graphics Features - Jun 18, 2025

When an Instanced Static Mesh Component (ISMC) uses a material with a non-zero Max World Position Offset Displacement, the bounds are correctly expanded at initialization. However, after calling Upd ...

Significant hitch occurs when invoking ApplySettings on a UGameUserSettings object

UE - Graphics Features - Jun 18, 2025

Calling the ApplySettings method on a UGameUserSettings object results in a noticeable hitch, with severity proportional to the number of primitive components present in the scene. This hitch stems ...

Performance hitch from RemoveGeometryCache flushing the render thread

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Alembic - Jun 12, 2025

FGeometryCacheStreamingManager::RemoveGeometryCache calls FlushRenderingCommands which shows up as a hitch when profiling. [Link Removed] Ideally the flush added in CL#23782411 to fix a rare deadl ...