They dgaf about performance.
People have asked them to be more performance consciencious for decades.
They just don’t care.
Epic is not a very good company generally speaking anyway.
I don’t think any of us ever expected anything out of them promising to be better.
Particulalry after sending all of us surveys, getting told exactly what to do, acknowledging it, and wholly ignoring it?
Not to mention, they prefer to lay lawsuits on underage kids for “cheating” over fixing hacks,
Consistently and repeatedly steal ideas to use in Fortnite from other developers, knowingly break TOS with other companies…
Really, if it wasn’t for idiot teenagers spending their parent’s saving on cosmetic skins there wouldn’t even be an engine. Tencent would have lost however many billions they put in to get a 40% stake, and maybe the world as whole would be better off for it…
Then again some of the stunts off this predatory company aren’t as predatory as you’d expect (read as not all bad). For one, you have Tim fighting apple over Apple being a total pos. Naturally, that too isn’t for your or my benefit, its just predatory behaviour like i said, but it could end up being positive as a whole (he sure likes to parade it as such).
And then you have their fragant and fully legal tax evasion, which I applaud.
Instead of paying uncle sam they give away money via grants so they can deduct it off.
On that note - the only people who have ever made any difference what so ever for regular folks are usually grant recepients.
But then what does this predatory company do after giving them a grant?
Well, they either steal thier stuff, or hire them and force them to sign NDAs up the wazoo so they can literally no longer be helpful…
Anyway, back to the optimization thing:
You have to do what you are doing.
Pull the engine source, pick it apart, build, and stick with your build. Forget their “updates”.
Benchmark everything, benchmark often, and don’t rely on forum posts, since people can’t even understand the difference between the cost reductions between sphere trace and box trace without arguing and sharing a bunch of uneeded BS.
Also, keep in mind the forum is often “policed” and heavily censored, because sharing good information that may help someone else is generally not allowed (I have to assume this is due to the fact they want to sell their own services. Goes back to them being predatory again)…