UE 5.7 vs UE 5.8 | No Performance Difference??

UE 5.8 official just shipped. So I cloned my 5.7 project into 5.8, packaged both as shipping builds, and stacked them against each other on the same hardware — because one of you called me out last time and said a real comparison isn't real until you package. You were right. Here's what happened when I ran the packaged test, why 5.8 briefly looked like it was running three times faster than 5.7 (spoiler — it was lying), and where the real numbers actually land across a clean baseline, a Lumen-maxed pass, and a full torture test. Plus a real dev warning about experimental plugin sample assets that Epic can (and did) delete between versions. 👉 VR Realms Creator Kit + Discord + everything: https://vr-realms.com 🔗 LINKS DevGames3085 Plugin 🆓: https://devgames3085.com/plugin/free.... VR Realms 🆓: https://vr-realms.com/ DevGames3085 Plugin (Pro): https://devgames3085.com/plugin/pro.html DevGames3085 Website: https://devgames3085.com/ Discord:   / discord   Merch: https://devgames3085-shop.fourthwall.... ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 5.8 official is out — and packaged this time 0:29 Why packaging matters 1:00 The setup 1:31 The mystery — 3x FPS 1:45 The investigation 2:33 The real cause — missing trees 3:25 Two takeaways from the trap 4:02 The real comparison 4:31 The verdict — they trade blows 4:48 Why this test wasn't fair to 5.8 5:12 Build for VR Realms 5:43 What's next 6:15 Outro 6:35 Comparison test footage #UE58 #UnrealEngine #UE5