I am having a trouble running the Engine on my new Razer Blade Studio with Nvidia Quadro RTX5000
I have bought the Studio version of the laptop specifically to run UE4 in the hope to learn how to create archviz cinematics
With the spec of these machines they should be able to run the engine with ease but the engine keeps crashing straight to the desktop with no error message or crash report.
It seems the software is tripping out the CPU or GPU perhaps - does anyone have any tips for getting UE4 to run smoothly on Razer Blade models or even laptops in general?
In the Nvidia Control Panel go to 3D settings and set it to use the Nvidia GPU for everything, by default it will try to automatically assign the Intel GPU or the Nvidia GPU and it doesn’t do a bad job. And it’s not enough to just assign the program to use the GPU it needs to be a global setting or you’ll still get some performance issues.
Besides that, if you’re on battery it might throttle performance due to your power settings, setting the power settings to full performance can also help.
I will try to implement those changes now - When you say ‘everything’ do you mean everything for UE4 or literally everything the computer does? Is there a 1 clic solution or do i need to scroll through and change every task to the quadro card?
Its definitely the intel GPU that was causing the issue as working on an external display and forcing the Quadro card to be used has been working as a temporary solution!
I’ll let you know if i encounter any issues once ive changed the Nvidia Control panel settings!
Out of curiosity, why would you buy a Quadro workstation specifically to work with UE4? It’s not a real-time suited card, which means it’s going to be outperformed by much cheaper consumer models.
It should still work, being a fairly high-end workstation card; it’s just ill-suited to the task.
In answer to your curiosity I run an architectural visualisation studio - We work on very large scale architectural projects, modelling and creating scenes using 3DsMax and rendering using Vray - tasks that have proven much easier with quadro cards in the past. I wanted a new mobile workstation, and although I have mainly bought a Razer Blade Studio to learn UE4 on, it also needed to be able to accomodate my other hardware requirements just in case - If i had bought a cheaper laptop and geforce card it would have only been good for realtime.
In the Nvidia control panel there’s a setting there for choosing which GPU to use, you have 3 options: let Windows try to automatically choose which GPU to use (bad), set which GPU to use for specific programs (should work but doesn’t always get best performance), or you can set one GPU to run everything (best for performance but takes more power so your battery will run out faster).
I downloaded the NVIDIA software from the website like a dashboard and it updated the drivers and solved it for me after I updated the settings to RTX. Thank you