Unreal Engine has some specific hardware and software requirements for running the Editor. This page covers these requirements, as well as describing what is installed by the pre-requisites installer included in the Unreal Engine installer.
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Recommended Hardware
Minimum Software Requirements
Minimum requirements for running the engine or editor are listed below.
The requirements for programmers developing with the engine are listed below.
Unreal Engine 4 Installer
Graphics Card Drivers
We currently recommend using the latest stable releases from each card manufacturer:
Performance Notes
Unreal Engine 4 Online
This list represents a typical system used at Epic, providing a reasonable guideline for developing games with Unreal Engine 4:
Windows 10 64-bit
64 GB RAM
256 GB SSD (OS Drive)
2 TB SSD (Data Drive)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Xoreax Incredibuild (Dev Tools Package)
Six-Core Xeon E5-2643 @ 3.4GHz
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If you don't have access to Xoreax Incredibuild (Dev Tools Package), we recommend compiling with a machine having 12 to 16 cores; however, we encourage you to read the Hardware Benchmarks (2017) reference to learn more about compiling with and without XGE.
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