Unreal Engine 5.2 Finally good on M1/M2 MacBooks!?

With the release of Unreal Engine 5.2, the Editor finally runs natively on Apple Silicon via the Epic Games Launcher! The Release also comes with performance enhancements, making it easier for Mac users than ever, to create 3D art on their machines!

I'm running Unreal Engine 5.2 Preview on my MacBook Pro M1 Max with 64 GB on unified memory.

What do you think? Is Unreal Engine finally usable on Macs? How important is Nanite for you? And how does the Engine perform on your Mac?

[rayamc]

Iv'e been using 5.2 beta for about a month and it's solid and it's the first time that mac looks comparable to my pc. Before most vegetation was near black and I spent hour fighting with lighting. Now it all works fantastically and at a decent speed (M1 Mx studio) It's great the 5.2 has finally landed as the beta build was a bit incomplete (compile errors) but I have had to use it for production as my PC is just not up to it performance wise. Finally I can load it officially.

Unreal is a great tool for mac users. If I was dedicated to using it it would be windows all the way as you need a massive RTX to get the best out of it but just a s an animation tool to use now end then it's great on mac

[jimofhughes]

Thank you so much for this, your entire channel is absolutely fantastic.

[djpvma]

Thanks for the heads up, you're the first result that came up when asking "Can Macbook Air M2 handle UnrealEngine." I appreciate the insight, I have been debating if I wanted to go through with this or not, and this helped me know that I made a good purchase. The shipping is taking a whole week though. LOL. I subbed. Thanks again.

[atom_octum]

WoW ! Your Channel is Nice, Hope we get more tutorial on UE5 i’m going to give it a try now with 5.2 on M1 Max

[bellousow]

Amazing video I think this is the last time that a buy a Mac I have M1 Max mac 64GB ram ….everything maxed but no pathtracer no nanite no …… man all this great technologies….

i love my Mac and all in all a better Workflow for me as with Windows. But i wish epic would support nanite anytime soon

[bluzenkk]

is there an update on this topic? its UE5.5 now and M4 is coming out soon.

[TechForgeEmmad]

I have an M1, works really smoothly, better than my desktop at times but somethings like Nanites are so broken it is awful and not worth it.

[gunterstunter]

In light of of recent Unity drama, can you make a video for how to build to android from a Mac in unreal. It’s not a trivial process and nobody else has created a good tutorial on this.

[djdavewarren]

have you tried Unreal on an M3 Mac yet ?

[sammacsammac]

Untick "Enable High DPI Mode" in Preferences on Retina…

[drbodacious]

The thing is, don’t get a Mac for Unreal, get it for everything else, and use it when you want to do a bit of work away from your actual PC, without needing a second laptop just to run the damn thing. Creative work doesn’t have any hard lines, that’s the nature of creative work, what people want is convenience, so that when they’re struck with sudden random inspiration, they can pull out whatever they have on hand, and work on it

[soundmefirst]

I'm getting a new laptop, just starting the Unreal Engine 5 learning journey. Is there any good advice ?

[canigetuuhhh]

Did anyone try UE5 with a M3 Max Macbook Pro to see if it works better ?

[nishanthkumar]

I can't really use UE5 that it really lags and when i check for troubleshooting.
It shows that my system's OS doesn't reaches it requirements can anyone help me.
And my device is mac M2 the OS is also uptodate.

[CJ-uhbk]

How does this run on a base model m1 MacBook Air (7c gpu and 8gb of ram) out of curiosity?

[brujyyy]

Is Live coding now on macs supported on Unreal Engine 5.2

[newearth]

What about using unreal on an M3 Max Mac using parallels to install it on windows 11? Any thoughts?

[ghostlightodyssey]

Having render issues, Apple res is not appearing. Is there a simpler way to render videos?

[matteomammoliti]

Hi Nico,
being that I've to work on a project in Unreal Engine 5.03 I was thinking to by an Apple Mac Mini with M2 Chip. Is it runnable and reliable ?