How do I increase the texture pool?

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So when I run my game and map in the editor the texture pool seems to be 4gb and all the textures stream nicely as they should while I’m running around. When I launch from a batch file though I can see in the log that it’s setting the texture pool to 1000mb and breaking that limit occasionally so during gameplay a lot of the textures on the assets just randomly go blurry or pop in and out.

I know you can increase the texture pool but I’m not sure how. Does anybody know?

Thanks!

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Engine\Config\Windows\WindowsEngine.ini has a PoolSizeVRAMPercentage=70 setting under [TextureStreaming] heading. Perhaps you could play with that key/value somewhere in your .ini files and see if you get better results.

0 means unlimited streaming.

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Thanks! Do you know where I could add that to the projects ini files so that I don’t need to change it in the engine? It would also help because then everyone else on the team would have the same setting automatically.

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Perhaps inside Engine.ini (or Game.ini) in your project’s Saved/Config/[platform] folder.

As a matter of convention I’m not 100% sure, as most of the .inis end up loaded, but there’s probably a “proper” place for it. :slight_smile:

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At the console:

r.Streaming.PoolSize=1500

Will change the Pool Size to 1500MB

Make the change permanent by editing your DefaultEngine.ini to include:

[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
 r.Streaming.PoolSize=1500
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Where is the DefaultEngine.ini located?

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C:\Users\UserName\Documents\Unreal Projects\Project name\Config\DefaulEngine

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You can Add a node that executes the console command on the construction script of one of your blueprints