TL;DR: Unreal Engine 5 revolutionized game development with advanced technologies like Lumen and Nanite, but many UE5-powered games in 2025 face performance and optimization issues across platforms.

Immortals of Aveum is introducing a new way to think about optimizing your games on PC. It’s called the Performance Budget Tool, and it’s meant to help guide players through the dense graphics menu to ...

Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, has stated his belief that Unreal Engine 5‘s poor performance on select hardware is down to developers not properly optimising the technology. Korean website This Is ...

Unreal Engine 5 has been catching heat for performance issues on lower-end hardware, but Epic CEO Tim Sweeney isn’t having it. According to him, the engine’s not the bottleneck—developers are. And if ...

It's the massive, Godzilla-sized elephant in the room — Unreal Engine 5. Apparently the end all be all for nearly every AAA game in the space today, Unreal Engine 5 came to us in 2020 as a savior with ...

CD Projekt RED has signed a collaborative15-year deal to use and iterate upon Unreal Engine 5 technology. Today CDPR and Epic Games announced a partnership that will help usher in a new era of Unreal ...

Take a look at what to expect with the upcoming Unreal Engine 4 update for Blade & Soul. The mythological martial arts-themed MMO will upgrade its graphics, game and network optimization, add new ...

The upcoming Layers of Fear remake is set to be the first third-party game to use Unreal Engine 5. Epic's newest game development engine, and its cutting edge features like Lumen and Nanite, drove ...