Optimizing the Game Thread
The CPU has a lot to do. It runs animation, pathfinding, behavior trees, physics, Niagara, everything you scripted in blueprints, and much more. If stat unit is telling you that …
Soft Pointers
Soft pointers and asynchronous loading allow you to better manage what assets are loaded into memory. Don’t waste your precious memory. Use soft pointers!
Unreal’s “Bloat”
Unity and Godot devs often say Unreal is “bloated” (which to me always sounds like complaining about having too many features). So let’s take a deep dive.