HZB Occlusion causes large stalls on the render thread

UE - Rendering Architecture - RHI - Oct 7, 2025

HZB Occlusion causes large stalls (greater than 5ms seen) on the render thread due to an RHI flush. This is caused by the following code in FDynamicRHI::RHIMapStagingSurface_RenderThread which force ...

Custom Depth range is different than Pixel Depth range

UE - Rendering Architecture - Shaders - Sep 25, 2025

Shaders that compare custom depth and pixel depth get wrong output values because the ranges are different. This error is most noticeable over large distances. The difference in ranges is due to t ...

LODs with screen size 0 in legacy assets are incorrectly converted to 1 on load

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - Sep 11, 2025

When loading a mesh asset (static or skeletal) created in an old version of Unreal (e.g. 4.10), any LOD whose LOD screen size was originally set to 0, is converted to 1. This causes LODs that would ...

Some operations on material instances do not transmit over transactions.

UE - Virtual Production - Tools - Multi-user - Sep 5, 2025

DirectoriesToAlwaysCook in platform specific configuration files are ignored by the cook process

UE - Platform - Console - Sep 5, 2025

When DirectoriesToAlwaysCook is placed in a platform-specific configuration file, the cook process does not read that entry when cooking content for that platform. The editor is aware of the platfo ...

GeometryCollectionPhysicsProxy::FieldParameterUpdateCallback() not removing invalid Commands, leading to performance issues

UE - Simulation - Visual - Aug 30, 2025

GeometryCollectionPhysicsProxy::FieldParameterUpdateCallback() not removing invalid Commands, leading to performance issues. The licensee has provided their analysis: We seem to have stumbled acro ...

GAS: Double attributes not shown GameplayDebugger

UE - Gameplay - Gameplay Ability System - Aug 27, 2025

Context The Gameplay Ability System lets devs specify numerical attribute properties in UAttributeSet subclasses. Although the preferred attribute property type is FGameplayAttributeData, GAS has l ...

Visibility doesn't get effected by hierarcy levels

UE - Anim - Sequencer - Aug 11, 2025

We use the hierarchy bias to override actions within subsequences. We can do that for transforms and control rigs, but the visibility track doesn't seem to obey the same rules. Attached is a video o ...

Incorrect resolution used because SetProcessDpiAware() is not called when bAllowHighDPIInGameMode=False

UE - Rendering Architecture - Aug 8, 2025

The incorrect resolution is used on computers with 4k monitors that use DPI scaling (default 150%) because the default for UE projects is bAllowHighDPIInGameMode=False which results in SetProcessDp ...

GPU Crash from out of memory read/writes in Lumen when using non-power-of-2 TracingOctahedronResolution

UE - Graphics Features - Lumen - Aug 6, 2025

When the r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.TracingOctahedronResolution is not a power of 2 or LumenFinalGatherQuality in a Post Processing Volume is set to a value such that the TracingOctahedronResolution ...