Running games powered by the Unreal Engine 5.4 smoothly continues to be a challenge even for current high-end GPUs, as an RTX 4080 GPU has trouble running an undemanding fan-made game powered by the engine at a steady 60 frames per second at 4K resolution.
As showcased in a new video shared on YouTube a few hours ago by MxBenchmarkPC, Project Borealis – A Prologue to Half-Life 3, a fan-made project powered by the latest public version of the engine, cannot run at a steady 60 frames per second at 4K resolution with NVIDIA DLSS Ultra Quality preset even in scenarios where there isn’t a lot happening on screen. With other DLSS settings and Frame Generation, performance is considerably better, but this is only making it more clear that a native 4K, 60 FPS experience is not possible on the vast majority of current gaming hardware, although better optimization, which shouldn’t be expected for a small fan-made project like this, could have improved the situation.
One more thing the video above makes abundantly clear regarding Unreal Engine 5.4 is that, despite performance improvements over past versions, the engine still leaves plenty to be desired in regard to frame time stability, as the stutters are pretty evident at all resolutions. This has been a persistent issue in games powered by Epic’s engine for a long while, and there still doesn’t seem to be a solution to the problem in sight, although things may improve in the future thanks to the effort of developers well-known for their technical expertise, such as CD Projekt Red.
More information on Unreal Engine 5.4 can be found on its official website.
