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Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips

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205 points samspenc | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 01:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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WhereIsTheTruth ◴[06 Sep 25 07:33 UTC] No.45147352[source]▶
I once made the mistake to buy some sound effects from Fab, I had to download the entire Unreal Engine and start it to create a project to then import the assets..

It took the whole afternoon

It's no wonder UE5 games have the reputation of being poorly optimized, you need an insane machine only just to run the editor..

State of the art graphics pipeline, but webdev level of bloat when it comes to software.. I'd even argue electron is a smoother experience tan Unreal Engine Editor

Insanity

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daemin ◴[06 Sep 25 08:09 UTC] No.45147501[source]▶
Yet it is the engine dominating the industry and beloved by artists of all kinds.

To get UE games that run well you either need your own engine team to optimise it or you drop all fancy new features.

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Ekaros ◴[06 Sep 25 08:41 UTC] No.45147642[source]▶
Being around back in days when LCDs replaced the CRTs and learning importance of native resolutions. I feel like recent games have been saved too much by frame-generation and all sort of weird resolution hacks... Mostly by Nvidia and AMD.

I am kinda sad we have reached point where native resolution is not the standard for high mid tier/low high tier GPUs. Surely games should run natively at non-4k resolution on my 700€+ GPU...

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1. daemin ◴[06 Sep 25 08:58 UTC] No.45147710[source]▶
Games haven't been running full native resolution for quite some time, maybe even the last decade, as they tend to render to a smaller buffer and then upscale to the desired resolution in order to achieve better frame rates. This doesn't even include frame generation which is trading off supposed higher frame rates for worse response times so the games can feel worse to play.

By Games I mean modern AAA first or third person games. 2D and others will often run at full resolution all the time.