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Valley of the Ancient

Epic Games - UE Game Samples - Apr 20, 2021

Discover how Unreal Engine 5’s Early Access features can be leveraged in our all-new sample project! Valley of the Ancient demonstrates high-end visuals and practical use of UE5 features. NOTE: This project targets high-end PCs and next-gen consoles.

  • Supported Platforms
  • Supported Engine Versions
    5.0 - 5.4
Download and explore Epic's Valley of the Ancient sample project! Get to know Unreal Engine 5 Early Access's new rendering, open worlds, audio, and animation technologies - including Nanite, Lumen, World Partition, FBIK, Motion Warping, and Control Rig. Fly over a 2x2km photorealistic environment composed of Quixel MegaScan assets, then transition to a mythical world demonstrating new interactive gameplay features.

NOTE: Valley of the Ancient was created with next-generation console hardware in mind and requires a highly capable PC to run. If your system does not meet the specs below but you have the space, you can still download the project to get a look at how we used some of the new features in UE5 Early Access. Nanite, however, is only supported on NVIDIA Maxwell generation GPUs or later as well as AMD GCN GPUs or later, along with the most up to date drivers.
Storage Space: 205 GB (Vault Cache 106 GB, Project Copy 99 GB)

Target PC spec:
CPU: 12-core CPU at 3.4 GHz
RAM: 64 GB RAM (editor)
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2080 / AMD Radeon 5700 XT or higher

Min PC spec:
CPU: 12-core CPU at 3.4 GHz
RAM: 32 GB RAM (editor)
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080 / AMD RX Vega 64 or higher with 8GB of VRAM


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