LarsThiessen

The amount of resources that modern apps use is much more frustrating when you think about it in monetary terms. Chrome alone keeps 64€ of RAM hostage 😤

The game I worked on for almost two years now got finally announced 🥰

Really proud of that one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4gDXqdY6Eo

The performance of Unreal's message log isn't great, especially if you log a lot of messages. Luckily, it's easy to fix and to make it a looot faster:

https://larstofus.com/2026/05/28/how-to-make-unreals-message-log-100-times-faster/
#ue5 #gamedev

After my recent podcast appearance at
@stayforever@mastodon.social
where I talked about the optimization of RollerCoaster Tycoon, I finally found some time to also write an article about the same topic:
https://larstofus.com/2026/03/22/the-gold-standard-of-optimization-a-look-under-the-hood-of-rollercoaster-tycoon/

If you know German I'd still recommend the podcast, which also dives deep into the development history of the game 🎢

Unreal has a surprisingly high number of issues when it comes to renaming things in the editor. It even refuses some renaming actions altogether!

Let's investigate (and fix) this: https://larstofus.com/2026/04/26/how-unreal-struggles-with-with-renaming-stuff-and-how-to-fix-it/

#gamedev #UE5 #UnrealEngine

Do you remember my collection of fixes for Unreal's renaming issues?
The first of them got merged and will be shipped with 5.8! 🥳
(Actually, it got merged a while ago, but I just noticed it now)
#UE5 #gamedev

https://larstofus.com/2026/04/26/how-unreal-struggles-with-with-renaming-stuff-and-how-to-fix-it/

Why optimization matters:
When signing into Windows takes too long, Windows can activate the screen lock, and, by doing that, sign you out again before the initial sign-in is even finished!
I now always have to move the mouse while looking at the login screen, just so I can reach the desktop 🫠

Never seen a game warn players of it's own chosen engine in the system requirements before, but there's a first for everything, I guess.
#UE5

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@LarsThiessen/116074768407083961

Whoop! 🥳 The first of my two described fixes just got merged and will be part of 5.8!

I don't even use Blender, but I love reading their release notes because of charts like this 🏎️

Apparently there are blogs out there consisting of ai-written summaries of other people's blog posts.

Not sure if I should take it as a compliment to be chosen as the source material for a slop blog but I guess that's the modern internet for you 🫠

Hey fellow #UE5 devs, I was wondering how much one of Unreal's recently added features is used out there. Do you recognize this button (red circle) shown in the first reply under this post?
If yes, do you use it?