Unreal Engine 4.9 Released!

[Adam Davis]

There's screenshot, not only framerate is lower, but number of objects and memory usage is higher. This objects number is interesting, how to check what caused additional almost 2000 objects?



EDIT: Another bug, when 'walking' with camera, and holding strafe keys (side movements, A/D keys) and look around with mouse, the camera is super jerky, no smooth looking around like in 4.8.

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[Adam Davis]

I have to say for us this has been by far the most problematic update so far. Also getting this when I hit play:

It's part of the VR template I guess, don't know what causes it.

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[jacenty]

My game on android Galaxy s3: U 4.8 -34 fps up U4.9 52 fps ::))))))))))))
Galaxy s2 : U 4.8 32 fps down U4.9 16 fps ((((((((((((((((((((

This update suxx :P i have many bugs .Etc... I stay with U4.8 .

[melat3mg]

Major FPS drop here from a 4.7 project opened in 4.9. And also getting the external packages error. Crashes when trying to run standalone...

[Gigantoad]

Please report this on the answerhub in the bug reports section so we can assist you further. In it, please include what steps you took to reproduce this on your end. Additionally, include whether this project was updated from a previous version or if it was created new in 4.9, whether this occurs in a clean project, and any additional information that may help us to determine what is occurring and potentially reproduce the error.

Was able to reproduce this with a clean VRTemplate project. Repro steps here: https://answers.unrealengine.com/que...te-and-49.html

[Knick]

Why can't I see the update in my launcher?

[Knick]

Nevermind I found it. Didn't see "add versions"! Duh..lol

[Devfo Studios]

Galaxy s2 : U 4.9 32 fps down U4.9 16 fps

I may be wrong here as I do not use UE4 with Android, but you may be seeing lower frame rates on older devices (S2) because 4.9 is using GL-3.0. I work with Android and WebGL for my "real" job, and I do see issues with OpenGL3.0 on older devices. Not all devices can compile the newer shaders.
In fact, Android is all over the place with OpenGL -- even the latest Samsung S6 is **** with rendering because of it's Motorola video driver.

[NomadMonkey]

There's screenshot, not only framerate is lower, but number of objects and memory usage is higher. This objects number is interesting, how to check what caused additional almost 2000 objects?

same problem here.

[DamirH]

So how the hell do you turn on the HLOD preview?

[Pjotr]

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I have the same problem in a scene of mine. I also made some small benchmarks with the a blank project. I have used the same answerhub post as tonpix did: https://answers.unrealengine.com/que...jects-cou.html

[ItsBenji90]

UE-17453 still HASN'T been fixed. Epic I'm dissapoint. :/

What I'm talking about

[northstar]

everything went purrfect without a hitch, win 10/64

I feel i'm in a wilderness traveling north... farther north than I've ever been before...

life found a way...

[KingBadger3D]

I saw in the tech news today that UE4.9 is already out and was surprised because 4.8 is not long ago.
I just went over this thread and from page 2 on it is about bugs.
Not sure, but longer development cycles + more testing would be better in my opinion.
Seems to be 'head over heels' release ethics.

Hey, Nothing could be more wrong. Years back tried out Cryengine, Pushing back update cycles doesn't mean your end up with working tools. Every time updates were released something else that was working got broken. But they if you lucky released updates every 3-6 months.

Keep in mind we do have source access, id rather have epic doing updates monthly (or near enough) that have issues, because if if epics release pattern was 6-12 months i can guarantee you we would still get the same bugs. No such thing as perfect code, Perfect code dev tools, compilers, release platform code. It's chucking loads of things in a blender and hoping things come out OK. Release cycles will never solve that.

Keep the Faith, Epic are far from perfect but in my eye's the best of the bunch. J

[Highflex]

One thing that was marked as done on the trello board was the Mesh Component FOV thing (To Render FirstPerson Meshes with different FOV )

Is there anyone at Epic that can give out more info on this? It's really important for the type of project i am working on, (wondering if its anywhere on github?)