Is Unreal Engine heavy?
Unreal engine 5.02 size 115 gb.
Developing in Unreal Engine 5 is simple for beginners. Using the Blueprints Visual Scripting system, you can create entire games without writing one line of code! Combined with an easy-to-use interface, you can quickly get a prototype up and running.
Put simply: it's demanding. Very demanding. At this point, it's worth highlighting why the city sample is so special – and it's pretty straightforward. Creating and rendering cityscapes of this level of detail is no walk in the park.
ps: before installing unreal engine it calculates and tell you how much space it needs in disk, just the engine (with just windows as target platform, without source code and without starter content etc.) it will use 10,46 GB of HD, while download the engine with everything will use 29GB.
The hardware requirements for developing games and apps through Unreal Engine 5 is a good CPU with at least 6 cores and a clock higher than 3 GHz, to ensure smooth software operations and speedy compilation. Also, you need a good and compatible GPU and RAM size of at least 16 GBs.