My PC is too weak to run UE4, (4GB) ram, what should i do?

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It frezes top many times, should i download UE3 or should i move to another engine, ( PS i hate c++)

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Ram absolutely is not the only factor, but yeah any PC with 4gb would probably struggle to run any engine- especially one with high fidelity.

You may want to buy a cloud PC. Services like shadow offer full PCs in the cloud for a monthly price. You’d be able to run any version of unreal through that.

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Try GODOT instead.

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Try Godot definitely. UE3 / UDK with 4GB? Even if the editor launches, it will be misery, as miserable an experience as flying and airports are most of the time now. Old copies of Unity3D if you can find them around, may also run. But seriously, who wants to use Unity anymore. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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There are two options:

  1. Stick with Unreal, but use your computer as a dumb terminal to a high-end Windows instance in the Amazon cloud with enough RAM and GPU. If you have money to pay for renting that instance, this is great. It’s about $2.50 an hour for a 64 GB instance.

  2. Use a smaller engine. Godot might fit on your system, and has both 2D and 3D capabilities. Additionally, it doesn’t need C++; you can use C# or GodotScript. (I’d recommend sticking within the engine and using GodotScript for smaller systems, rather than complicating things with C#.)

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Interesting… It’d be really helpful to be able to compare this kind of ‘renting’ vs all the buying options, side-by-side. Especially as greedflation (post-covid) means gaming rig prices creep up into the upper 3k-4k tier level [USD / EUR]. Before covid, you could get a high-end rig in the 2k tier. Now, even after the widespread collapse of crypto, graphics hardware prices especially from Nvidia, are pure extortion. :pirate_flag: Who wants to overpay for subpar mid-level 4000 cards?! :rage:

Anyone got any links (case studies), comparing this kind of ‘renting’ vs buying???

Questions: Does spinning up a new AWS instance mean a new VM environment is created every time? Or can you say pay a lower passive amount to have a custom VM setup saved? Wondering how you link to your own projects and marketplace assets, plus any other software you actually need to get work done? Also what kind of internet speeds do you need. Are there any other factors too, to really make this kind of thing work well, without tearing your hair out. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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My daughter is building a gaming computer for christmas. She’s getting:

Ryzen 7800X3D
B650 Motherboard
64 GB DDR5 RAM
RTX 4070
2TB 990 Pro SSD
850W Platinum power supply
Torrent Compact case
Noctua NH-D14 black cooler
Windows Pro

It’s just a hair over $2k before taxes.

I think this computer is approximately similar to the Amazon rental box G5.4xlarge at $2.36/hour. $2k of rental fees is just under 850 hours – less than half a year of full-time work (40 hours a week.)

The Amazon rental prices do not really work out if you can actually build something on your own, but they can help with various corporate purchasing situations where the right kind of budget hasn’t been allocated but there’s other budgets available :slight_smile:

The “system drive” on an AWS instance is typically hosted on EBS, which is a “persistent” drive. It’s a bit like carrying around your own boot drive, and plugging it into some particular physical machine each time you “spin it up.” Any projects you build and save on that drive, will be persistent. You do pay for the drive even when you’re not using it, but that’s pretty affordable (dozens of dollars per month, perhaps) compared to the machine fees.

Some of these instances (especially the g4dn which is the default when you use the Epic-provided Unreal machine instance template) come with a “local” SSD. That “local” SSD is wiped clean each time you stop the instance. (Reboot doesn’t clear it, but stop/shutdown does.) If the extra performance of the local SSD matters, you may be able to set up some scripts that copy the files you need onto that drive on start-up, and backs/syncs up changes back to some online store (EBS or S3 or whatever) as you make changes, so it will largely work as a local fast cache for a persistent drive. Of course, that additional copy will also cost you a dozen dollars per month. They know how to get you :slight_smile:

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