Unreal Windows PC Recommendation

Development Getting Started & Setup
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What is a good Windows configuration to work on a professional level?
I’m new to Unreal and have to create large complex automotive animations in big landscapes with lots of vegetation (larger than 2 sq km).
I realize its best to work on a Windows PC to be able to use all features.

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Size of level does not matter much, what mattes is density and level of detail, size of textures. And probably you want push your PC to the limit, and you are not much concerned about “Average user specs”.

So answer is as good PC as you can afford:

  • So some of best AMD cpu.

  • 64GB ram (maybe 32 would be enough).

  • m.2 SSD one for system one for unreal on for project. sizes 1tb, 1tb, 2-4tb. Do not go over that 2tb as producers start to make shady tech to increase capacity which is less reliable and slower. And generally first revision of SSD m2 has best components, then they again do shady stuff and replace quality components with some meh stuff.

  • most important is graphics card. Now if you want to use physics, fur, or anything with CUDA you are kind of limited to Nvidia. Second thing is VRAM more the better this is very crucial for making big detailed maps. So 3090TI or so, not sure if 4xxx series is worth it. But again more VRAM better.

Yes i know this is insane level setup. But creating big and detailed maps, with not much worries about some average user laptop that has only integrated graphics. You want that, well you kind of want two of same setups, one for working one for presentations. Transporting such PC may damage hardware, and then you wait for parts, so it is better to have two units.

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Thanks a lot.

I think this is consistent with what we had in mind
Windows 11 Pro 64bit
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (16x 4.5GHz)
64 GB
24 GB NVIDIA RTX4090

I heard size of level does matter when it comes to lighting.
Lumen and/or HDRI lighting might not work in large environments. So you have to use ray tracing.

But I guess for hardware configuration, it doesn’t make any difference if you use lumen or ray tracing and it’s something to figure out later.

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We have some hardware documentation here that might help you, along with the typical Epic workstation spec:

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