Epic Games\u2019 latest version of Unreal Engine 5 has introduced a significant performance boost for Nintendo Switch 2, it says.<\/p>\n
Unreal Engine 5.8 was released on Wednesday, ahead of Epic<\/a>\u2019s State of Unreal event in Chicago, and following a period of early access.<\/p>\n Along with various features, the full release of the UE5 update introduces a surprise new \u201cLite\u201d version of its Lumen lighting system, Epic revealed, which it says will lead to significant performance increases in Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> games.<\/p>\n Lumen is UE5\u2019s default global illumination and reflections system, which calculates light bouncing in real time, saving developers from having to \u2018bake\u2019 lightmaps into their game worlds.<\/p>\n According to Epic, Lumen Lite runs twice as fast as Lumen\u2019s previous version, meaning that games that rely on global illumination can now \u201crun on Nintendo Switch 2 at 60 fps\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cLumenLight is designed to preserve much of the visual impact at a significantly lower GPU cost,\u201d explained Simon Tourangeau, Unreal Engine\u2019s VP of engineering, at State of Unreal.<\/p>\n \u201cThat makes Lumen viable where it wasn\u2019t before, including on Switch<\/a> 2. And that work is already helping drive further nanite optimization efforts for the platform.\u201d<\/p>\n A few games built with Unreal Engine 5, such as Epic\u2019s own Fortnite<\/a>, have already been released for Nintendo Switch 2. With this latest update, players will hope to see more UE5 games ported to the console in the future.<\/p>\n Games that run on Unreal Engine 5 include Halo<\/a>: Campaign Evolved, The Outer Worlds 2<\/a>, Arc Raiders<\/a>, and Black Myth: Wukong<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Epic Games\u2019 latest version of Unreal Engine 5 has introduced a significant performance boost for Nintendo Switch 2,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}