Hi legends, I’m an educator and my current classrooms are great, but ill be going to a different campus to teach one day a week and I just want some guidance on if their computers would run UE5. They aren’t doing anything crazy, just making a fun little game, but would these specs work. No GPU so running integrated Graphics.
Again, this isn’t to build and publish games or do high scale rendering, just learning the engine and using starter content to make a game with BP.
Intel Core i5-1500
16GB Ram
149GB Free on NVMe
Not a great computer, but for learning things, would it run? Even if running on low scalability settings? Again doesn’t have to look good, just needs to run for education purposes.
As this doesn’t meet the minimum specs by a landslide… I’m not saying it won’t work at all, but if you DO get it to work it will be a headache-and-a-half, constantly crashing, etc. Even going back far into UE4… I don’t know how far back you’d have to go for this to work. Integrated, dedicated VRAM is really important for the Engine, especially on i5 and older. Maybe try it out with 4.27? 5 you can basically assume it’s a “no”.
Yeah I thought this would be the case. Sucks that the normal classroom I have has 4090’s and the campus ill be teaching UE at doesn’t even have GPU’s is going to suck. Looks like we will be doing VM’s with GPU’s instead (a solution we currently use for under specked labs) Thanks @Mind-Brain
^This^… Its possible with UE4 using those specs, but you’ll have to go back as far as 4.18 iirc (if you can still find it somewhere to download). It won’t be a great experience, but it will work with simple games / examples.
Not sure what you’re saying here exactly. Is this a plan for using a VM so it acts like a software GPU maybe? You’d still be using those same specs above though? If so, that sounds painful… So definitely try 4.18 first maybe…
We have VM’s already created that run UE5, but i was hoping to avoid them as they have their own set of issues sometimes (the GPU will sometimes randomly decide it doesn’t exist and crash UE haha) but the VM is better specked than the PC but just annoying, ill live though.
