Hello there!
So, I occasionally package my UE4 project for my friends. However, It froze my friend’s pc on launch even though his pc has good specs. It runs games like DOOM and Xonotic just fine. It runs fine on my pc with an MX 350. He plays the windows version using wine (A tool which allows linux users to run windows programs). If there are any fixes or ways to optimize my game’s resource usage, Kindly provide them. Thank you!
Greetings @progameziaUE4
Do you know the specifics of what hardware your friend is running? (GPU, CPU, RAM, etc) I would double check the specs there first to ensure all of them meet UE4 requirements. I’d also look and see if he’s getting specific errors in his logs. That would help provide information on what is causing the problem.
I believe it is :
CPU: Intel Xeon E-2176M (4.40 GHz) (6 cores, 12 threads)
GPU: NVIDIA Quadro P2000 Max-Q Mobile
RAM: 32 GB (DDR4, clock is 2666 MHz)
SSD: 2x 1 TB NVMe M.2
OS: Arch Linux
This sounds like more than enough for ue4 games in my opinion.
Unless the project is very demanding, it should be fine. I’d have them check the logs and see what is crashing/freezing. If it’s not giving an error, that’d be the best way to find out where the issue is. If you can get the error and post here I’ll be happy to take a look!
I should’ve mentioned this earlier, However, It actually didn’t crash every single time. One time, He managed to launch it, Get into the level and walk around and play normally. However, I have a custom trigger below each map to kill the player and respawn them. When he fell into there, The game just completely froze. The BP is quite simple, Just get the current level in which the player is in and just open it again. So, It is quite clear that his gpu or cpu is getting quite overloaded. Identifying that issue, I made the texture 64x64 instead of 128x128 and also reduced the no. of lights. Using profilegpu, i found that post processing is taking up alot of resources. If you have some tips on how to make post processing take up less performance, Kindly provide them here. Thank you!