Unreal Engine Issues
Unreal Engine Issues
Landscape Tessellation shadow depth performance cost higher than expected
UE - LD & Modeling - Terrain - Landscape - Aug 23, 2016Using tessellation on Landscapes causes a greater impact in performance than what is expected. In the screenshots provided there is a comparison between tessellation disabled and flat tessellation ...
GeometryCollectionPhysicsProxy::FieldParameterUpdateCallback() not removing invalid Commands, leading to performance issues
UE - Simulation - Visual - Aug 30, 2025GeometryCollectionPhysicsProxy::FieldParameterUpdateCallback() not removing invalid Commands, leading to performance issues. The licensee has provided their analysis: We seem to have stumbled acro ...
Take Recorder - Viewport Freezing and Performance Degradation When Recording Without Subsequences
UE - Virtual Production - Tools - Take Recorder - Apr 11, 2024Description: In Unreal Engine 5.4, when recording camera movements using the Take Recorder with the "Record Sources Into Sub Sequences" option turned off, significant viewport freezing and performan ...
Performance issues with World Composition
Tools - Dec 14, 2015Licensee reports performance issues with ULevelStreaming::GetWorldAssetPackageFName, repeatedly constructing an FName for every sublevel. Should cache this. ...
Editor Periodically Has Performance Drops In Basic Scenes
Tools - Dec 27, 2019The Editor experiences performance drops even in the default basic level when left alone running. I experienced them every ~3 seconds. My graph didn't show the drops very clearly so the fps counter ...
AssetRegistry has poor performance when a large map is resaved
UE - CoreTech - Jun 21, 2024A licensee reports that their large map has a 10s cost in the AssetRegistry when resaved. They took a profile and found the cost is mostly in LoadCalculatedDependencies for the map, and most of that ...
Add Substrate Material Support to Lumen Performance Overview
UE - Graphics Features - Substrate - Feb 10, 2025There is a discrepancy when inspecting Substrate materials in the Lumen Performance Overview. Compared to viewing non-Substrate materials the overview show all surfaces in red indicating that Lumen ...
Investigate Tessellation Performance on Landscape
UE - LD & Modeling - Terrain - Landscape - Apr 22, 2015I have been seeing a few answerhub threads about very low performance on tessellation with landscape. What is puzzling is that it does not seem to change performance whether low or high tessellatio ...
GenerateVisibileRayTracingMeshCommands Severely Reduces Foliage Performance Even if no RayTracing is Used
UE - Graphics Features - Lumen - Sep 18, 2019GenerateVisibileRayTracingMeshCommands Severely Reduces Foliage Performance Even if no RayTracing is Used. Found in 4.23 CL# 8386587 and 4.24 CL# 8748719 ...
Hot Reload cannot be performed when using the DebugGame Editor configuration
UE - Foundation - Cpp Tools - Hot Reload - Dec 31, 2018In 4.21.1 it is no longer possible to perform a Hot Reload when the game is open in the Editor and using the DebugGame Editor configuration. REGRESSION: Yes. A Hot Reload was possible in 4.20.3 whe ...