Mar 2, 2015 - Unreal Engine 4, the latest version of the game engine developed by Epic Games, is now completely free for anyone to use, the company announced today. Epic originally launched Unreal Engine 4 in March 2014 for 'early adopters' with a subscription model, charging $19 per month plus a royalty fee of 5 percent on sales.
Contents.Recommended DesktopYou will need a powerful setup to get started developing with UE4 right now.Here's what we recommend on the:. Desktop PC or Mac. Windows 7 64-bit or Mac OS X 10.9.2 or later. Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz or faster. NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card or higher. 8 GB RAMNOTE: We do not provide any officially recommended specs for laptops.
We don't suggest this, but for those of you attempting development with integrated graphics, it would be in your best interest to have more system RAM than the 8GB we recommend for a system with dedicated graphics.User Tested PC SpecsThis section will include PC specs that some of our users are running on and their observations. The user observations do not count as hardware recommendations from Epic.
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This section is currently under constructionHere are some laptop specs that other users have and how well they reportedly work:JammyJBW. OS: Windows 7 64bit. Processor: Intel i7 2.3ghz. System Memory: 12gb. Graphics: gtx670m.
Average fps: 2030. Settings: Haven't fiddled with the default settings.
Notes: I'm using my ASUS G75VW rog laptop to use the engine.