When time is money, you’ll likely be “lazy” with some of your development decisions, too.
Epic doesn’t think its a problem. Epic treats bad performance in UE5 like Nintendo treats JoyCon drift. Except in this case, a lot of performance problems in UE5 come from dveelopers not changing the default values of a lot of technologies, or being lazy and using technologies they dont need to use but they are the default or are easier to use than the technology that is a better fit for their use case. Epic causes a lot of it throught their implementation in the engine, but developers absolutely could be doing more to mitigate it.
Like, sure it might be easier to use the handle of a saw to hammer in a nail because it is already in their hand, but if they would just reach over to the toolbox and grab the hammer, its going to be a much better tool for the job.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 days ago
qarbone@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I think Epic is moving more and more toward making Unreal Engine a film tool. If you’re spending days pre-rendering elaborate scenes, performance is a non-issue.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 days ago
I find it crazy how UE5 games released early in the engine’s life run way better than UE5 games released in the last 2 years, since the addition of Lumen in things.
Not only that, but every game using Lumen has an extremely weird white pattering effect over anything meant to be reflective, and a general kind of haze over everything else… Turning it off instantly improves performance and makes the game look less ugly.