Lately, I have been having a weird Unreal Engine issue where the editor will sometimes completely freeze when right clicking an asset or variable, as well as when I make a new asset or variable. It will not formally crash, I will have to go into the task manager and end the process myself. I noted that after the editor freezes, it uses 0% CPU.
I have gone to lengths to make an attempt at fixing this, such as:
Re-installing the editor
Taking my project’s “content” folder and migrating it to a new project, doing the same in Gitlab
Completely erasing and removing all partitions in my main M.2 and re-installing Windows 11
Disabling UDP Messaging and Async Physics
Using DX11 instead of DX12
Disabling nVidia Overlay and Discord Overlay (Just in case)
We do not use any C++ code in our project, so we are working mainly in blueprints. My friend who I’m working with on this project is not having the same issue and we are working on the same project in different branches off the main repository.
My hardware for reference:
Intel Core i9 13900HX
RTX 4090
32GB DDR5 RAM
1TB M.2, 1TB M.2
Epic games and Unreal are both installed on the main Windows drive I erased, only installing GeForce Experience, Discord, OBS, Visual Studio CE 2022 with C++ tools, and Sourcetree/Git.
My questions:
Has anyone had the same thing happen to them? A few google searches yielded a few similar complaints, with no fixes.
How can I log what is happening to my computer or to unreal when my editor freezes so I can provide a more accurate look into what’s happening when it does?
I did have problem similar to that, and I was forced to reinstall Windows to fix it.
When you uninstall an app do you not remove all the files, and you need external tools like Revo Uninstaller to do that.
First, does this hapens with un 5.2?
did you install any new apps, games of drivers
is you OS updated?
is you graphic card updated?
Did you get any new hardware?
is you hard drive an HDD OR SSD?
I will recommend to try to uninstall UE5.3 again, maybe be using the Hunt mode in Revo Uninstaller free and restart your PC then install it again in a different folder or on a different hard drive.
then try to upgrade your graphic cards and your OS.
Tell me if any of this did solve your problem, and if any of this did fix it, please mark it as resolved.
Link to Revo Uninstaller (download the free portable version)
Hello, I’ve been having the same issue and I have similar computer specs as yours. Everytime I try to save my project after an small change, I freezes. I really don’t know what to do, did you manage to fix it?
I think i figured it out. For some reference, I have a 3090 and I use CableMod extentions. I did not realize that for high end cards like the 3090 and 4090, you must use 2 different PCI-E cables instead of using the PCI-E pigtail and connecting the GPU on one PCI-E cable. Once I used 2 seperate 8 pin PCi-E cables, Unreal Engine stop freezing on me. I hope this helps
