MULTI Unreal Engine 5 officially released; new tech test video from The Coalition

[CerebralTiger]

Unreal Engine 5 Officially Released - IGN

Unreal Engine 5 is officially released and ready to power your next-gen game. Epic also released several sample projects, including a new playable shooter called Lyra.

www.ign.com

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1511367416697307140

 

[Necrokiller]

Hmmm, no comment from CerebralTiger. Must be pretty impressed

 

[CerebralTiger]

List of studios working on UE5. Look at all that money Sweeney will be making. Sweeney rep

 

[Necrokiller]

List of studios working on UE5. Look at all that money Sweeney will be making. Sweeney rep

And using it to give freebies so we never have to spend on his store. Works for me

 

[CerebralTiger]

It's called a short-term investment for long-term gains. What Microsoft also wants to achieve with Game Pass

 

[Necrokiller]

Might wanna check the EGS financials to see the outlook. It ain't looking pretty

 

[CerebralTiger]

PC:

Steam Deck (lol):

 

[Necrokiller]

Nintendo Switch:

Baat Nintendo pe aa ke khatam hoti hai

hehe

 

[Chandoo]

Unreal Engine 5 Officially Released - IGN

Unreal Engine 5 is officially released and ready to power your next-gen game. Epic also released several sample projects, including a new playable shooter called Lyra.

www.ign.com

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1511367416697307140

Damn that engine demo looks tight.

Gears 6 is going to be something amazing if that's the quality if upholds.

 

[CerebralTiger]

I took a quick look in the profiler while running through the startup sequence yesterday and none of it looked like IO stuff directly:
1) Was mostly PSO compiles (as expected the first time)
2) Next most common was graphics driver stalls while creating resources/adjusting pool sizes. That sort of thing is a common target for IHVs to tweak buffer sizes, defrag timing, etc. for shipped games so sort of to be expected with a non-tuned workload as well. I imagine it will get better over time in drivers as well, especially now that we've forced people onto DX12 (thank god).
3) Remainder of the stalls I saw were things like spawning/deleting a ton of actors in a frame or something, which are demo issues in things like the crowd/traffic system that can also be improved over time (these systems are not core UE per se). These were the minority though.
Nothing looked categorically scary. The PSO situation sucks in general on PC, but there are some ways to mitigate that with PSO caches for a shipping game. A bunch of these stalls are because drivers are still doing rather conservative things (i.e. recompiling every hit shader in the scene) when it comes to RT PSO linking and that will likely improve further now that we've forced the issue as well.

Admittedly UE is a giant thing at this point, and certainly there's aspects on the CPU that are non-ideal. That said, I didn't see anything fundamentally unsolvable or needing esoteric tech here. The GPU side is already running quite smoothly and will only improve further.

Ax expected, the stutters on PC are largely due to caching shaders / pipeline state objects. The remainder of them are gpu driver-related stalls and stutters due to instantiation / deletion of Actors in memory.

Here's hoping Alex does a comparison between the PS5 and his i9 / 3090 build

 

[Necrokiller]

That said, I didn't see anything fundamentally unsolvable or needing esoteric tech here.

hehehe

 

[CerebralTiger]

Yeah, just as shader compilation stutter issues have been solved for UE4 games

Best part? Teh Witchaaa is going to run on UE5. Better hope CDPR can solve it

 

[Necrokiller]

Posts The Coalition's tech demo in the first posts, thinks shader issues are unsolvable. That's one approach

Can't wait for Gears 6

 

[CerebralTiger]

Wasn't the Matrix Awakens demo also handled by The Coalition tho?

 

[Necrokiller]

It's not even a game and you can't find your precious straight line on any console either

The PSO situation sucks in general on PC, but there are some ways to mitigate that with PSO caches for a shipping game.

 

[CerebralTiger]

How many recently shipped UE games have mitigated it tho?

 

[Necrokiller]

Dat stutter spike! Yikes!

 

[CerebralTiger]

Nice try, but consoles have no stutter (only judder due to typical frame rate drops, which is not a stutter/stall) in the open world section released on PC

This only occurs in the on-rails Virtoooa cop section on PS5 and Series X.

 

[Necrokiller]

Hahaha, cherish the stutters (or budder judder cudder whatever). You won't see Coalition working on anything else for PS5

 

[CerebralTiger]

These aren't stutters/stalls. The frame time doesn't spike to a level that results in a momentary pause

Based on Necrokiller's previous example, he knows what an actoooal stutter is