Epic Games' increasingly popular real-time 3D creation software can be overwhelming at first, but Unreal Engine 5 tutorials will help you get up to speed. The availability of learning resources is ...

Unreal Engine 5.2 introduced a new system for preloading Pipeline State Objects (PSOs) to help reduce stuttering caused by shader compilation in games. This alleviates shader stuttering, which is ...

The Unreal Engine Online Learning hub will serve as a free platform for the engine's online training and video tutorials, supporting a range of job types and skill levels.

Before Unreal Engine 5.2, Epic recommended that developers bundle the most common PSOs into a cache, allowing games to precompile most of the shader code during loading screens.

Unreal's shader support was completely overhauled. The engine works with thousands of shaders, with between five and 20 of them being used for just one material.

In short, Epic seems to be saying that it knows shader compilation stuttering is a problem in games that use Unreal Engine, but it's actively working on solutions to it all.

Epic announced a slate of new features for Unreal Engine 5 during its State of Unreal address, but the most important update flew under the radar.