Ue4.4.3 and ue4.6.1 are crashing with applied substances

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hi,

i have some substances (about 22) in my content browser loaded in ue.4.4.3.

after i applied them to my static meshes (in an resolution of 128, because they are far away),
ue4.3.3 crashes.

the same procedure in ue4.6.1.

i bought substance designer (indie) because i thought, things would be more easy
for an good performance…

or is this an wrong thinking?

an answer to my problems would be nice.

greetz

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Hi

Does this crash on windows or mac, and is the crash in the editor or in a packaged build?

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hi ,

it crashes on windows7 professional 64bit.
the substances are build in 4k (diffuse,roughnes,normal) relative to parent, in ue shown as 128.

the crash is in the editor (ue4.3.3) and in a packed build (ue4.6.1).

my ue´s crashed a lot in the near past, so i tried to figure out where it came from… i now i guess :substances/plugin(??).
(before i applied substances to my scene, everything was ok…).

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Okay thanks for that.

Would it be possible to email me your crash logs? My address is

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hi ,

you got mail(s).

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Hi

Thanks for the logs. I opened up the most recent 5 and all 5 had the same issue: OUTOFMEMORY loading D3D Texture. I see you’re running a 9800 GTX and UE4 reserved 698 MB for textures.

How many materials/textures are you loading in? 4k textures can be 16-64MB each depending on compression level. So if you had a material with diffuse/roughness/normal that could be 100MB for just that texture. I’m not sure how UE4 handles paging the textures out but if you just have too many textures in a room for the GPU it can cause a problem.

Are you loading the substances directly in UE4 or taking the generated png/tga output?

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i import the sbsar into the content browser.

what do you mean:

  • should i break down my 4k-base-textures in lower quality?
  • or should i better go down with the texture size to maybe 1k?
    (i thought, this adjusting from an 4k-texture down to 128 / realtive to parent is one of the major strengths of substances?)
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As long as the output textures are indeed 128 that should be fine. One of substances strengths` is indeed rescaling assets. How many sbsar’s are you loading in before you crash?

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hi ,

i loaded about 28 sbsar in 4k.
8 are shown as 2k, 20 as 128.

than it crashed.

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if you resample the 2k textures down to 128, do you still crash?

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my “main”-textures got now an size of 2k instead of 4k.

for the “far-away” -textures i atually made an size of 1k shown as 128.

i also pushed down the quality-settings of each texture to an mid-value.

now i got 9 from these 1k-textures (as sbsar) and nothing crashes by now…crossedfingers

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Yea, it’s going to be tough with a 9800. I think that series is 7 years old now. Epic recommends a 470 GTX or better.

Hopefully you can upgrade your GPU soon, otherwise just keep the substances small so they fit in the video RAM.