What can I do to help prevent my laptop from overheating while using Unreal Engine 5?

[game-maker]

The easiest immediate solution is just UNPLUG the power cable and let the laptop run off BATTERY power for now. So that the laptop falls back on the built-in OS / Bios settings which should lower overall laptop performance across all hardware / devices. After that, see similar threads like the one below, that cover capping-frame-rate / turning off real-time in all editors:

Worth investing in project at the beginning for unreal?

^This^… But there’s no real magic solutions here (results are just worse on some laptops). Have mostly been using laptops for game dev (all versions of UE since UDK). So here’s a few tips: Don’t EVER use a game dev laptop for regular gaming on the side ever. Instead buy something disposable for that, like a game-console or a much cheaper laptop. Switch off real-time in all editors and don’t leave the machine unattended especially in a playtest. Instead do testing in short sessions, or o…