I don’t know if you experience it too but I feel like my computer have not enough power… nah - not enough power… My computer must be like Commodore to GTA 5 or something because RAM and CPU consumption often reaches 90% from Unreal 4 Editor ONLY. I don’t know how you - Epic Games - achieved this - your launcher usually consumpts 300 MB of RAM and when having some operations it takes up to 700 MB RAM - surely, its the most RAM expensive editor or even application I have heard about. But here is the main problem - what the heck is wrong with the editor? Usually it looks like this:
- Editor just opened → 1,5 gb ram
- few minutes later of idle → 2,5 gb ram
- Coding in some blueprint (actors, humans etc) → 3,5 gb ram
Okay, even that I could stand. Sometimes I want to find some references. And today Unreal broke my nerves. I received message that > 25 blueprints coudn’t be used to find because they were not indexed. So I pushed “Index All”. And this was my final mistake - computer suddenly started to lag, was very, very, very laggy. I looked at Task Manager and what I saw → From my 8 GB of RAM Unreal 4 only took up to 6,5 gb ram (changing from 4,2 to 6,5 quickly), from my 4 core processor (AMD Phenom II X4 840) it took 75%.
And here is my question → WHY?? WHY??? Is this really necessary? Where the 3 GB RAM went when indexing blueprints? WHERE?! My friend is using Unity 5 and he have 2GB of RAM, some NVIDIA GT card and 2 core i3 so its really possible to lower RAM and CPU consumption. I am really starting to think why Epic Games set it free and I begin to think it shouldn’t be “If you love something - set it free” but “If you coudn’t do well something - set it free”.
Can someone give me some reason why from technical side it uses so much power?
