May 2012 - Incredibly Unstable

[Maffew]

Anyone else having issues with the May 2012 release?

This version crashes for fun on all 4 of the different machines I've tried it on. UDK crashes and closes when:

• Loading a map after you've had another map open previously
• Pasting more than one Kismet item
• Using the package drop down when creating/moving content in the content browser
• Exiting PIE
• It gets bored
  

Hopefully there are some more releases before they shutdown for Unreal 4 development.

Edit: It looks like the April and May releases have been removed from the download page. Perhaps by mistake?

[tegleg]

yep

add to that;
crashes 4/5 times on startup
crashes 4/5 times on PIE
random errors saying engine packages are missing when it eventually starts
framerate takes 4 minutes to go from 120 to below 10
random crashes fully loading packages
sound pops and bangs in pie and doesnt actually play any real sounds
theres some more but cant think of them off hand

seems all apart from feb udk have been removed from the download page.
i really hope they are fixing it for the next build, fingers crossed.

[reinrag]

yeah i'm sure they are fixing it, no worries mate

[ceora]

me too! it's a really annoying problem XD

[Maffew]

Yeah, Hopefully we won't have to move back to an older version, otherwise it's a months wasted work!

[ceora]

Right! By the way another problem i always had is when creating a texture cube, it crash, i and i must close it!

[TroyMcClure]

The UDK website is being revamped, and May should be back up shortly.

For those of you crashing, please list your hardware that this is occurring on.

Being able to reproduce the crashes here at Epic is extremely helpful to resolving any issues.

Thanks!

[tegleg]

heres an incredibly detailed thread about the framerate issue, towards the end there is allsorts tried
http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/...litymode-ISSUE

heres a thread detailing the startup and pie crashes
http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/...tartup-and-pie

and there are many threads detailing the other problems.

packard bell ipower gx
intel core 2 duo p7450
nvidia geforce gtx 260m
4g ram

edit:
forgot
Windows 7 edition familiale premium 64bit

[JUGGERNUT]

For those of you crashing, please list your hardware that this is occurring on.

Being able to reproduce the crashes here at Epic is extremely helpful to resolving any issues.

Thanks!

I have a HIS Radeon 6870 Card with the drivers 8.850.0.0 installed at the moment.

Sometimes UDK works fine for a bit, and I can load up all maps not corrupted if I have dx9 settings on (doesn't matter if I run 32 or 64 bit version), however if dx11 is on and I try to open up the NightDay demo map, it will not only crash UDK, but just simply black screen my computer, if a video is playing the sound can be heard for another 15 seconds or so before getting stuck on a millisecond loop. Sadly, UDK for me does crash after a while regardless with the same black screen. Which is unfortunate to see, cause some games like transformers war for cybertron I can play forever, yet mass effect 2 I can get like 15 minutes max. There's some serious optimization errors going on.

[XilenceX]

I had crashes after loading multiple maps in May UDK and after copy+pasting Kismet stuff arround. Some seemingly random crashes too...
oh and the mobile previewer ALLWAYS crashes while Steam is running. Any idea when a new fixed version will be released because this is extremely annoying?!!
GTX 560M
i7 2630QM
6GB ram
Win7 Home Premium.

[ceora]

this is my PC spec.

AMD A6 3500 APU with Radeon HD Graphics 2.10 Ghz
8 Gb Ram
Win 64 bit SP1

[Graylord]

2.1 Ghz processor?

You sure you were able to run that well with previous versions? That's a severe bottleneck.

[Maffew]

Here are my specs. The most frustrating crash is when pasting Kismet nodes. NEED that to be able to pass work between artists at the moment.

Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5520  @ 2.27GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
Memory: 24576MB RAM
Display Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

[ceora]

yeah, i know before this i had 3.1 amd phenom 6 core.... but it over heated and it died. i changed mother board and cpu cause the seller said that they don't make any more this kind of processor.. however at the moment for little work work well...