Texture Streaming Pool over budget ? ✅ Complete GUIDE for Unreal Engine 5

In this video I talk about the very common "texture streaming pool over budget" problem you will encounter in Unreal Engine 5 and how to fix it, but also understand what caused the problem. We look at what the texture streaming system is, how to get useful data and know what size to give your streaming pool. Then, we look at a good way to optimize your scene and edit your texture resolutions easily to improve the editor's performance !
--------------------
RESOURCES
console commands
r.Streaming.PoolSize XXXX (your value in Mb)
stat streaming
Unreal Engine documentation for texture streaming docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en...
Good blog post on this issue www.techarthub.com/fixing-tex...
--------------------
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:23 - What is texture streaming?
01:29 - Quick fix
01:43 - Optimize your project
03:59 - Additional tip
#UE5 #3d #unrealengine

[@RiverFox_YT]

finally, a video that actually explains what and why to do it instead of the r.streaming code which doesnt actually resolve your problem, it just makes it go away for a while

[@ygreq]

This is what I was looking for and much more. Perfect!

[@Stvan19]

Thank you! Just to clarify, we must put '=' before the pool size, like this: r.Streaming.PoolSize=XXXX.

[@nick301]

thanks so much for this great info. I felt totally overwhelmed how to deal with texture sizes and was thinking about how I would resize them one by one manually and so on. Feeling better now that I know how to handle it efficiently :)

[@theothergameygamer]

Nicely done! On point and more informative than the documention for those of us not getting paid by the hour.

[@CataleptiCat]

The best tutorial on Unreal Engine texture streaming by far. Other videos on this topic had a lack of explanation or only applied the band-aid technique of console commands. Thanks Valerian for creating this video and properly explaining.

[@VLRN_]

Thank you !! That was my intention, I was also very frustrated by other videos on the subject

[@AlvaroBrainhole]

Thanks, this helped me a lot! Hey guys if you get the window in grey when use the "bulk edit via property matrix", just click on "Grid" and "Display". That maybe delay like 5 seg before turn White.

[@Alvaro-wd4ji]

man... i wish all tutorials could be as usefull and straight to the point as this one. THANKS!

[@VLRN_]

Thank you, appreciate it! 😊

[@ddjennison]

Great tutorial, thanks for the help!

[@VIDEAoriginal]

That's very helpful, thank you so much!

[@jotacoxabagaray]

You saved my life, thank you!!!

[@diliupg]

What a great explanation! Thank you for this. You are a good tutor!

[@TheBlackBaku14]

très bon tuto man j'adore 👍

[@mikeheck6016]

Excellente vidéo! I'm certain this as helped a lot of people, as it did for me. Still have a follow-up question though: when checking stat.streaming, the streaming pool is still using 100% of the allocated memory (in my case, 1200g). Is this a sign of additionnal optimization needed, or is increase the streaming pool is a viable a solution? If so, how much is too much? Even setting it to uncapped yields 100% usage

[@cstar666]

Really great tut. Thank you!

[@richardrothkugel8131]

I'm a Unity dev switching to Unreal, and this is exactly what I was looking for, but it's way easier to do in Unreal (if you know how). Greatly appreciated.

[@darkgenix]

Thanks this fixed my problem.

[@marinamaximchuk4859]

cool thank you!

[@PirateOnYoutube]

Thanks , you fixed my problem with animation. Before it needs 112GB (8K ) & now only 34GB ( 2& 4K ) . I don't see any difference in quality between frames But UE doesn't crash anymore . Cheers 🍻🍻

[@danielbecerra6094]

now that's an explanation!

[@Stoermy_]

thx for ur Tut :)

[@synthesis117]

AWESome tutorial.subed

[@creaprisme674]

Thanks a lot !

[@rogersk1599]

Brilliant

[@HeyArno1d]

Thanks!

[@psychokilla4905]

FINALLY, not a jocke, i watched over 20 videos on the subject and Dude, are perople really that devided now a days, theres sooooo many ignorats out there thinking they know stuff, how sad is that, can we start prioratizing humbleness over power people, but like yesterday Valeran ur the Man, Man Thanik you for this

[@T1mothyTee]

Thanks for the video. I have a question... in my statistics I cant seem to find a solution becuase I've optimized almost all of my textures in the level. The problem is when I go to the 'stat streaming' command I notice that 'StreamingPool', NonStreamingMips, and required pool are each at approximately 3000MB. I remain over my pool size unless i change r.streaming.poolsize to 6500 MB... but that is too much since Im using a RTX 2070 Super with 8GB VRAM. Any Ideas whats causing this huge usage? Thanks for the help!

[@rubenminasyan9801]

thanks so much

[@VeraSilaLofi]

thank you

[@kwanhofu2968]

thankyou

[@Vanpw]

🔥🔥

[@julianmillo1459]

Amazing! Merci à toi :) I was wondering: even if you limit the maximum resolution of a texture, you will still need to resize the actual texture down the line to reduce the size of your project right? Do you know if there is an easy way to do it fast in-engine? Merci encore, j'ai acheté IA Scatter suite à tes conseils et ça m'a vraiment aidé.

[@VLRN_]

Hehe merci! No I need to get more info on that because my projects need to be cleaned up, and I have no idea about the process when finalizing a game. Will probably make a video on it at some point. And happy to help! À bientôt ;)

[@florentsolut1521]

I'm not sure about "Max Resolution", but if it works kinda the same as "LOD Bias" on a texture, when you package/cook your project, it will produce a file that is the size of the maximum resolution USED, so no need to manually do anything to save space. You can look up "LOD bias" pretty easily, but to sum it up, lets say you have a 4k texture at default bias = 0. If you set the level to 1, it will half the texture size (2048). Set it to level 2 It will half it again (1024) and so on. You can access LOD Bias by editing a texture or in the bulk matrix (shown in the video, right section under "Level of Detail")

[@maxis5793]

Dieu merci j'ai appris le français au lycée

[@DragLProductions]

amazing

[@IstyManame]

What textures are inside of a streaming pool, and which are outside, in the vram

[@dougmaisner]

great info

[@oxhid3]

in 5.3 is called "edit selection in property matrix"

[@user-fi1ml4dx2i]

i have one question if i render the scene then the quality will automatically increase or we have to change it again manually

[@dragonclubracing8669]

I play ark on a 4090 in 4k and the ground textures pop in when i turn rapidly or go to a new area, will increasing pool size improve that?

[@robot5kgamer]

Hey, it keeps freezing when changing the maximum texture size, is there a way to fix this?

[@krmzvaliz4164]

İ have a question. i ve this Streaming texture issue too. But also when i start to render the textures on my assets replacing with each other like if i have marble for kithcen it replacing with the sofa or TV and etc. This problem also depends on the Streaming texture issue or something else ? Thank you. Waiting a solution

[@VLRN_]

Never heard of this problem, check that your materials are correctly assigned to each object and maybe try migrating your project to the latest UE version (5.3) ?

[@rellethias]

Compression as an option is missng for me, any tips?

[@erikhr2010]

Great video and very usefull, could you do something about 360 image capture and how can I get the eye fish effect in the camera. Thanks a lot man!

[@DeadLifeTheGame]

Hmm.. changing the defaultengine file doesn't work for me

[@robbybobbijoe]

Why did this appear after i added a damn widget?

[@LiMaking]

I love you!! Thank you! Just one question. If I have nanite enabled on everything, will this frick my nanite up or is there something I don't understand about nanite? short: can I do this if I want nanite on?

[@VLRN_]

I haven’t encountered any problems with nanite while limiting texture resolutions and I don’t see what problem it could create. And it’s very easy to go back to the original texture resolutions as well if it’s somehow buggy. However the docs recommend to use Virtual Textures with nanite, which is kind of the same concept as nanite but for textures. I don’t have much experience with these yet but I’m planning to look more into it, will make a video on it if I find interesting things about VTs/RVTs !

[@LiMaking]

@@VLRN_ oooh I didn't know about the Virtual Textures. now I wonder if megascans use virtual textures as soon as I enable nanite on them or if I have to go back and enable that too on every single one somehow. Please do make a video on VTs/RVTs whenever you feel like it. I'll watch it when it's out! Thanks for answering so fast!

[@VLRN_]

@@LiMaking no, nanite does not necessarily mean virtual textures so you have to enable it (first in project settings then on your textures, and swap color/normal inputs in the material to virtual color/virtual normal). I tried it and it seems to work alright but there are some bugs, especially one where it will enable VT on other projects of the same engine version ??? So weird. Need to test more before a video on it though

[@LiMaking]

@@VLRN_ wow that sounds like a lot. I already have a lot of objects in my scene haha! Thank you so much for teaching me about this!

[@PixelCatGames]

Great. After Bulk Edit via Property Matrix my whole textures are lowrez. Options like texture quality have no effect anymore. donno whats wrong...

[@VLRN_]

What res did you set your textures to ? You can always set them back to original res in property matrix, maybe try other resolutions that’s weird

[@nassl4232]

y'a pas a dire notre accent francais es si reconnaissable hahaha beau boulot en tout cas ;)

[@VLRN_]

Haha grillé ^^

[@nassl4232]

@@VLRN_ j'aurais une petite question stp comment faire pour creer une world partition map depuis une carte importer de heightmap

[@tylerscott3192]

So even after changing the resolution and size of the textures you’ll still get the warning?

[@VLRN_]

Well it depends what max pool size you have and your project, with adjusting the settings and resolutions/sizes you shouldn’t see the message anymore

[@tylerscott3192]

@@VLRN_ it’s just set at default, I wasn’t sure if lowering the resolution would lower the pool size enough to make it under the warning limit

[@TheIornGerm]

i cant bulk edit it crashes

[@zumbalexxo]

Choose less textures at once. It crashes on selecting everything. I selected 20 texture files in 1 folder and it didn't crash. After you have given the max. resolution like 2048, click Enter and then it either crashes or the window goes greyed out for a while during the process. If you see the progress bar on the down right to finish, remember to "Save All" and you should be good to go to the next files. After that you might still see files that are over your max. resolution. I guess UE 5.3.2. keeps the original resolution but uses the given max. resolution.

[@JustJoshinYouBro]

Everytime I change the maximum texture size my project just freezes.

[@VLRN_]

It takes a while to process, try doing small batches like 10 textures, don’t do everything at the same time

[@canertwo]

VRAM overloaded? Laughs in 6700XT. Also. Cries in DLSS and Shadowplay :(