It would run it yes, but with only 8 GB RAM it would likely choke on large projects (or even not so large ones potentially, if the asset quality is high).
I was able to get my game to build on my Son’s Windows laptop (i5, 8GB RAM, GTX 1650), but that game is very light on assets. I will try loading some other projects on it this evening and post again, but I suspect it will fall over and think you probably want to look for something with more memory.
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As silnarm mentioned, the overall rig looks solid. But, 8gb of RAM would definitely run you into some walls. Especially with newer UE features. I do PC building on my spare time and have gone through a lot of loops building rigs. If I were you I’d try to find something that has a solid CPU(Doesn’t have to be crazy high end necessarily depending on what all you’re planning on doing), good GPU, and plenty of RAM - 32GB+. Depending on what all versions of UE your projects will use, you may also want to consider a big SSD solely for UE. You can eat up a ton of drive space if you end up with versions like 4.27-5.4 all on one computer. Just food for thought! Hope it was helpful.
My little test session went surprisingly well.
Would still definitely recommend more mem, but I was able to load and run (PIE) both the Game Animation Sample (which wasn’t surprising, but how smooth it ran was), and also Lyra!
Lyra did not run so good of course, unplayable lag by default, with Lumen turned off it was almost bearable.
Nothing fell over.
Storage capacity is as @FrostyJas points out not to be forgotten, and it is all too easy to do so, I just tallied up the Unreal related content I have I my own machine now…
Unreal Projects/ => 100 GB
Epic Vault/ => 50 GB
Unreal Engine 5.3.2/ => 60 GB
Unreal Engine 5.4.2/ => 74 GB
Unreal Engine 5.4.4/ => 73 GB
That’s over 350 GB… and I only started using Unreal late in April of this year (or early May possibly). Could drop the old versions that I don’t need, but I’m still well over 200 after that.
No joke! I ran into massive storage issues over time due to having virtually every version from around 4.2-5.4. It’s a lot of memory just for the UE versions not counting project files and such.
Achievement Unlocked!
The achievement consisted of having to buy a larger NVME. But, I’m glad that I did!