I am trying to download unreal engine 5.0.3 but it froze at 95% for over 4 hours after already taking about 8 hours to download.
Is this because I’m trying to store it onto my google drive because my laptop doesn’t have enough room ?
I own a ACER Aspire 5, will this be adequate to run Unreal Engine 5? and also will it be able to install onto my google drive?
Hey there @anonymous_user_00513b37! Welcome to the community! If I understand correctly, you don’t have enough space left on your SSD so you’re attempting to install it on your google drive? Unfortunately any storage that isn’t actually attached to your laptop could not house your unreal engine installation. The engine needs to be able to access all of it’s functions on launch to even launch, much less operate. Is there any way you could clear enough storage or have an external hard-drive for working with unreal?
Also those specs aren’t great for running UE5’s fancy rendering smoothly, but they should be able to run UE4 to a decent extent. Here’s the documentation on the recommended and minimum specs required: Hardware and Software Specifications for Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.0 Documentation
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you could also try an external USB drive to store the installation, not sure if it will work.
Try figuring out what takes space on your computer and get rid of stuff you don’t need. We don’t know what specs that computer has. Post them here
I’ll be honest, I know very little about computers but this is what I know about mine.
Acer Aspire 5
Intel i5-1135G7 8th Gen processor
1.6Ghz with turbo boost up to 3.0Ghz
8GB RAM
Also I was able to get it onto my google drive but now it is not recognised on the Epic Games App as being installed so I can’t download any extra things from marketplace ect. I just can’t win haha.
It is quite laggy when I run it and crashes on me.
If I was to to buy another laptop, what one do you recommend specifically?
Thank you!
If it’s installed on google drive it’s put on a server off of your computer, so essentially you moved it from one server to another. Unreal must be installed on your actual hardware to run.
The Aspire is meant for light office work for the most part, so online schooling and things like that. My recommendation is almost always to go with a desktop over a laptop as laptops are always going to be worse per price to get hardware strong enough to run UE5. That and they don’t overheat (and then get throttled) in the editor while most laptops will.
Due to my position I can’t give specific sales recommendations other than the facts laid out before you. I just recommend trying to meet the recommended stats in the documentation I had posted above. If you have any questions about those requirements, don’t hesitate to ask! Hope this helps!