Hi.
I just wanted to ask if it is possible for my weak (and old) GPU (NVIDIA GeForce 950) to get Nanite and Virtual Shadow Maps to work. I ask because everytime i open UE 5.4 it tells me this:
Maybe my GPU is just too old, but i heard that it is possible to get these things to work.
Here are the problem solvers I already tried:
Enable SM6 in the Project Settings,
Checked the settings for my GPU,
Updated to the latest driver Version.
I would be glad if you could help me solve this problem.
Thanks in Advance!!!
well… hello there.
won’t work. the gpu only supports hardware feature level 11_0 and shader model 5.1. the 2 gb of vram won’t be enough either.
at limited resolution you should be able to get dx11 to work nicely. you gotta optimize alot tho to get things into the memory.
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Thank you!
But you do say that if i can optimize or lower the res and other factors Nanite should work?
Because UE tells me that SM6 is not supported by my system
no. nanite depends on a hardware feature called mesh shaders. those are part of dx12. while there is potential to emulate the functionality on lower end cards, the performance of the emulation is really bad. even a 1080 ti can not get this done with a reasonable framerate. no chance to run this on a 950. sry
the optimization i mentioned is just general. 2 gigabyte of vram is not alot and the core rendering resources, like the gbuffer and feature render targets and compute buffers, will take a good amount of that. tbf… dx11 runs a lil less demanding. you may be okay.
Ok. But thank you though. I guess working on a 7-Year old Laptop with an old graphics card is not the best way to use Unreal Engine XD. Guess i will have to buy a PC at some point in the future
there are people out there still developing using unreal engine 4. 4.26 is a popular version. if you target mobile game graphics you can have some fun. that’s how i started too. just saying. ; )
is that 950m a 2GB or 4GB version? 4GB would give you a bit or wiggle room to develop.
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Its 4GB. I am not new to 3d Graphics (I mainly use Blender (since 5 years)) and can code Python pretty good. So i thought that i could start using UE, but it is not that easy with a potato PC i guess ):.
But thank you very much for helping me out!