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 ...

Enabling Substrate causes MaterialGraph node previews to render black

UE - Graphics Features - Substrate - Jul 16, 2025

Node previews in MaterialGraph with Substrate enabled render solid black in 5.6. The latest 5.5 engine does render previews correct with substrate enabled. ...

Mover standalone backend allows non-persistent sync structs to carry over between frames

UE - Gameplay - Player Movement - Mover - Jul 16, 2025

Only certain sync state structs are intended to persist between frames. These are configured via MoverComponent's PersistentSyncStateDataTypes array. There appears to be a bug in the way the standa ...

Niagara Regression - Looping particle with Spawn Burst Instantaneous on time 0.0 flickers for a frame between loops

UE - Niagara - Jul 16, 2025

Note: This worked correctly up to UE 5.4, but repros from UE 5.5 up to mainline latest. If a Niagara Emitter is set up with "Spawn Burst Instantaneous" on time 0.0, and the spawned particle(s) have ...

[AI] Automatically generated navlinks do not contain the poly flag for being a navlink.

UE - AI - Navigation - Jul 16, 2025

Automatically generated navlinks are failing to be detected by FNavMeshNodeFlags::IsNavLink. The area flag assigned to the navlink end points is not including the NavLinkFlag. ...

Offset Root Bone Node needs reconstruction from velocities

UE - Anim - Jul 16, 2025

The experimental Offset Root Bone node does not respect velocities, meaning that it does not work when a character is based on a moving platform. The capsule will rotate with the platform, but the r ...

[Review Tool] The editor crashes while attempting to load a modified Blueprint that uses Interface for review.

The crash is due to previous Rename operation, that reset a preallocated array which later FAsyncPackage2::ExecuteDeferredPostLoadLinkerLoadPackageExports tries to use.  Before loading change list ...

Inconsistent texture loading issue within material editor

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Jul 16, 2025

A licensee has reached out via EPS about a texture loading issue they are having in-editor. I summarized the most important points below:The issue relates to texture load failure associated with mat ...