Can mid-end laptop running UE4 well?

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I have a laptop with the following specs:
​​​​​- 2 x 4gb 2400 MHz RAM

  • CPU: Intel Core i5 8250U @ 1.6 GHz (max. clock speed 3.4 GHz), quad-core, 8 threads
  • Integrated GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 (4GB shared VRAM)
    Is this enough to run UE4?
    (I don’t use expensive rigs 'cuz i’m a hobbyist)
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Hey I think it mostly depends on what you’re working on. Right any programs and game engines has minimal specifications and recommended.
The minimal are required to open this engine and reserve it on your system hardware but if you want more fps and no lags you need better hardware than recommended. As I said before it depends on what you’re working, the example third person character or first person will use less memory hardware than almost finished game via unreal editor, because it may use too many assets in content browser and everything that exist on the world outliner, plus blueprint data with other classes.
On my project with my PC I get 80fps while largest map/level is loaded but when I started from scratch I get 180-200fps. The graphic settings of editor was basically High with high textures, and I never used cinematic.
If you’re hobbyist, just speed clock to 3.2GHz (not 3.4) and remember about good cooling for this cpu :wink:

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i don’t know how to overclock the cpu as it’s locked. any solutions?
edit: the laptop i’m using is a modded ASUS laptop. By saying ‘modded’, i mean the laptop’s hardware is tweaked.

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i think i can’t live with that as i always love things to be up-to-date. Btw, thanks, UnrealEnterprise

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How did you burn those rigs? Mine survived even without cooling pads. Btw, it’s because it’s winter and the temp. is always lower than 20 degree C. I don’t know if mine can make it through the summer.

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Btw, I wonder if a 15.6-inch, 1920x1080 @ 60Hz screen (which is the one i’m using right now) ideal for working with ue4?

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You are asking wrong question.

First you need to determine if laptop is really necessary for you. That is if you have real reason besides “i could do stuff on laptop while watching TV”. Like you need laptop for school, or you are traveling much etc. If that is the case you have no choice and just get best laptop you can, then suffer with unreal.

But if having laptop is just cool and no real reasons, then get desktop. Forget working while on couch or on trip etc. you will never do it. Just get desktop, for same price you can get much stronger desktop. So real choice is “be cool, have laptop, and suffer in unreal”, or “be reasonable, have decent desktop PC, and have comfortable system for unreal”

And answering your question:
I have old desktop: i7, 16gb ram and Nvidia970, and this one is fine for blueprints or some niagara, or prototyping in unreal. But making any level with lights shaders plenty of objects is barely doable. However your laptop has intel GPU, you can forget about unreal on that. And that 4gb shared vram, this will probably not load unreal editor at all.

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I guess the first person will use less memory hardware than almost finished game via unreal editor. Mine survived even without cooling pads.

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