Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000

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Hey so i installed the latest version of the engine which is 5.5.1 but it wont let me run it and would crash. Is this this because my pc is not capable of running the latest version. If yes then what older version is more suitable for my pc to run?

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000

UnrealEditor_RHICore
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_D3D12RHI
UnrealEditor_Core
UnrealEditor_Core
kernel32
ntdll

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4600
CPU: Intel cor i7-4770 3.40GHz
RAM: 8 GB

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d3d12rhi crash is an old one, there is tons of topics on this matter.
This crash usually happens because of UnrealEngine cache.

Delete these folders and start UnrealEngine again,
let it compile the shaders and then it should work.

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I don’t think you can use UE5 with 8GB RAM and integrated graphics. In fact, not even UE4 due to insufficient VRAM!

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You can, windows will make a pagefile to C drive to make the ram you need,
but should you run UE with only 8gb? no, it will be laggy as hell.

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I didn’t say run, I said use. I also saw a few people online saying they’re able to run UE5 with 8GB RAM (didn’t try that myself though, so can’t confirm)

Seems like we both agree on that though :wink:

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yeah, agreed.

I would not try to use it on 8gb, maybe 16gb ram minimum and minimum 6gb vram on gpu (depending on the project).

On my system I have 128gb ram and 12gb vram (big openworld rpg game project), and ram might be as high as 30gb sometimes when multiple meshes and other assets are open same time.