Ultimate guide to profiling Unity games

May 11, 2022

Smooth performance is essential to creating immersive gaming experiences for your players. By profiling and honing your game’s performance across a wide range of platforms and devices, you can better plan for success and significantly expand your player base.

This 70+ page guide brings together advanced knowledge and advice from external and in-house Unity experts on how to profile an application in Unity, manage its memory, and optimize its power consumption from start to finish.

For a consistent, end-to-end profiling workflow, which is crucial for efficient game development, start with a simple three-point procedure:

Profile before making major changes: Establish a baseline.
Profile during development: Track changes and ensure they don’t break performance or budgets.
Profile after development: Prove that changes had the desired effect.

Check out the full guide to learn how you can improve performance for any game.

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