Suggestions for UE4 Friendly Computer?

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Greetings potential question answerer!
My brother and I are looking to replace the dinosaurs (5+ year old computers) we’re currently using to make our game,
I just wanted to ask if anyone here has a particular opinion about what computer type,
or computer specs, might be a good match for eventually “baking” our game,
or rendering production quality lighting in our levels. Appreciate your help.

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Light baking generally requires a crapton of available memory. I think the Landscape Mountains sample recommends 24GB as a baseline? Not quite sure I remember correctly but it’s pretty high. It depends on your project though.

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Here’s what I recommend for a large game:

•24GB RAM (32 minimum for large open-world game development) (I have 16GB, not good enough…)
•Intel i7 hecta-core, or AMD’s top 8-core Processor (I have AMD 7850-K, not good enough…)
•Minimum of a GTX 960 2GB GPU (I have this processor, it’s decent but I’d like something better)

This should most likely cost from $1000 - 1500. My specs are alright if you have a lower budget.
If you are just doing a card game, 8GB, quad-core AMD processor, and no GPU (the AMD APU should work fine for 20-30 FPS).
You can also save yourself $100-300 if you build your PC yourself.

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I’d suggest going with a GTX 970 or 980 at least. I’d only go for the 6-core i7’s if your budget allows it, an overclocked 4 core processor will have very similar performance to the 6 core ones at stock speed, and the 4 core intels are cheaper, user cheaper ram, and cheaper motherboards. Plus Intel has much better single core performance, if this is going to be a general use PC for making games, go Intel. If you are going to build a render farm on a budget, make a bunch of PCs with cheap AMD 8-core processors.

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I’m running on:
AMD 8350 Octa-Core,
ATI Radeon 5570,
4 GB RAM

It works fairly well for small maps even with this cheap graphical hardware.However baking light even for a small map drains all the memory and sometimes it crashes. As far as I understand,having a good processor and large amounts of memory will be enough. You can ignore GPUs a bit.

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Make sure to take a look at this thread: https://forums.unrealengine/showthread.php?20643-Official-Hardware-Performance-Survey There you can find many specs + how well they run the UE4 :slight_smile:

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Thanks for all the replies guys!