Minimum hardware requirements

Development Getting Started & Setup
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Hi everyone.

I installed in one of my PC Unreal Engine 4.27.2. As far as I know, it has the minimum requirements to run the game engine but it crashes giving me an error of out of video memory even when I forced UE4 to work with my best GPU. My project is brand new and I don’t have any heavy mesh or similar. PC specs are:

CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
RAM: 8,00 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
VRAM: 2,0 GB
Installed DirectX: 12
OS: Windows 10 Pro

Sometimes it just crashes, sometimes the PC stops working and sometimes it reaches a BSoD (giving VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE). What can I do? Is my PC enough to run UE4 or am I wrong?

Thanks in advance.

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It looks ok.

Have you tried getting the latest ‘studio’ drivers for your GPU? ( don’t use game ready one ).

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How much VRAM?

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It is 2,0GB. I’ll update the main question with this.

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The editor needs more than 2 GB.

You might be able to build finished games that run on 2 GB on low quality after packing and bundling and optimization, but the editor itself needs a lot more while working with it.

Also, you only have 8 GB regular RAM, which won’t give the engine or drivers enough memory to work with to shuffle data around.

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Running UE5 here.
For UE5 you need at least a 4GB GPU.
I would recommend doubling your RAM from 8GB to 16GB too.
(One last thing: update to Windows 11)

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Thank you all for your answers. So this PC is not powerful enough to run Unreal Engine 4.27.2… :cry:

Is there any solution that does not involve hardware change? I mean something like a downgrade in the UE version or something like that.

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First try reducing the scalability

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Or you can try 4.23. Maybe you get lucky.

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Wow, thank you so much! I forgot those values completely… You are a life saver! Reducing it to “Medium” was good enough. Now, I don’t have any crash because of video memory. In fact, right now it is using a half of this memory. Thank you again!

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Try using unreal engine 4.25, configure scalability settings to meduim