Why is Unreal Editor completely freezing/locking up my computer?

Since installation Unreal Editor has been randomly freezing my computer. Sometimes it takes only a few minutes after start up, sometimes it takes over an hour. I would really like to fix this problem because I can’t get anything accomplished.

Computer Specs:

  • ASUS ROG Crosshair V Formula-Z
  • AMD FX-9590
  • MSI Gaming N760
  • G.SKILL Ripjaws Z series 16GB
  • Installed on a SSD

I really hope not. This is the only time I have ever had a problem like this. Was anyone able to come up with a fix?

Most of the time I am just messing with placement of objects. But it’s also happened when its just sitting idle in the background. Its never anything specific.

i think its the CPU the amd. unreal engine isnt a fan of amd cpu’s (this is from other peoples experiences with amd and unreal)

im sure there is a fix i mean my answer was never proven it was just what other people have said. i have a question tho what are you doing in the engine right before it crashes?

Well thanks for trying to help. I really hope I don’t end up having to go all intel to fix the problem. I plan on doing that eventually but not anytime soon. I’m going to try reinstalling it on my HDD to see if that my be the problem.

i have to admit thats odd especially if its in the back ground. i have not experienced anything like that… well except if im building a light map for a massive map. lol it runs my 3.8ghz cpu at 100% for 8 hours and will mostly crash if i open anything else. but you have a 4.7 ghz cpu and running unreal in the back ground so unreal should not technically crash the computer

Moving it to my HDD did not work. I opened a blank project and let it sit there with out doing anything. It froze my computer after about 10 minutes. Anybody have any answers??

Moving it to my HDD did not work. I opened a blank project and let it sit there with out doing anything. It froze my computer after about 10 minutes. Anybody have any answers??

I have fixed the problem! Turns out it was my power settings that were messing it up. I had to turn my settings from balanced to high performance and turn off the option to put the drives to sleep when idling. I have no idea why this was messing with Unreal but it worked :smiley:

I have fixed the problem! Turns out it was my power settings that were messing it up. I had to turn my settings from balanced to high performance and turn off the option to put the drives to sleep when idling. I have no idea why this was messing with Unreal but it worked :smiley: