Benchy Profiler - A simple benchmarking and profiling tool for Unity Free!

Hi Andy,

Mail received, replied and looking into it.

Cheers

 

Hi,

I do have one suggestion and it is probably quite a small/easy thing to do.
The use of Yellow/Green/Red on your status icons is problematic for the %10 of males and %2 of females in the world that are colorblind. Perhaps you could go with Green/Yellow/Blue (Good/Worrisome/Bad) indicators instead.

At the moment I have no way of seeing the difference between a green and red indicator at all without using a screen color helper application.

-Ell

 

Hi Ellander!

Thank you for the suggestion and you've taught me something about the subject. I will definitely implement your suggested fix for the new 3.0 version as well as a patch (2.3.2). The patch will be made available this month still through AS.

In the meantime please could you send me your email via PM and I'll send through new icons for the time being.

 

Hi Univerb,

Thanks for the quick response. The profiler is coming along really well, I alternate between yours and the unity one depending on what i'm troubleshooting (Garbage collector with unity one mainly).

- Ell

 

Hi there,

Is it possible to micro-profile the code running in threads with Benchy?
The Unity profiler ignores threads and calling Profiler.BeginSample from a thread is prohibited (which is just scandalous). Is there the same limitation with Benchy?

 

Hi Casto,

Thank you for your query. If you could send through a small project sample I can confirm the output with you. I seem to recall going through a similar process before with some success.

 

Hi Casto,

Thanks for the pm, I've mailed you back.

 

As explained in posting http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/be...ool-for-unity-free.143895/page-4#post-1736819 feature development for Benchy Profiler 2.x has come to an end but that forward new 2.x releases will mostly be hot fixes until the release of 3.0.

With this in mind Benchy Profiler has received the 2.3.2 hot fix and this has been submitted to the Asset Store for approval today.

What is included in the 2.3.2?

1.) Accessibility patch for red status on method profiling screen. Available from configuration screen
2.) Performance fixes around class / library folder exclusions (IE: DF GUI)
3.) Bug fix on method list display affecting some first time users of Benchy Profiler

As always thank you for your ongoing support and encouragement.

 

2.3.3 is on the way to the Asset Store

What is new in 2.3.3?
===============
1.) New logic around OnDevice Android SDK and Oracle JDK resolution

 

Just bought Benchy today and every time I launch the auto profiler it freezes Unity (4.6.2)

 

Also had this issue, turns out I had to wait for like 30 seconds after hitting auto profile for it to start.

Once the profiler opens the game runs at 3 fps in the background (without auto-profiler would run at around 100 fps). Once I actually hit go, it would drop to 1 frame every 6 seconds, practically useless for any profiling,

This is on lightest performance profile, without any GUI (I noticed some people had issues with GUIs + auto profile), and with only "method profiler" selected.

I haven't got any experience with profilers, is it expected that profiler overhead cuts performance by this much?

 

@Frenchie92 thank you for your email. I've requested a meeting via Skype to check your environment out.

@Scotty_ thank you for adding more info, your issue is different however, please could you pm me your email address and I'll get a hold of you directly to setup a Skype session and show you where your bottleneck is causing this.

 

2.3.4 has been accepted by for Asset Store and should be live within the next couple of hours.

What is new in 2.3.4?
===============
1.) Hotfix to address auto profiling crash experienced by some users of 2.3.2 / 2.3.3

 

Hi @Casto @Univerb Gaming
What was the conclusion on Benchy profiling threads?

I'm trying to address this atm. I own Benchy already but had (maybe incorrectly) assumed Unity 5 profiler superseded. Having hit Unity Profiler's threading limitation, I'm looking for better solutions and hope Benchy might save me? (you're my only hope! ... well, not quite ;-) )

Thanks!

p.s. The Univerb website seems to be broken -- it's showing some default parallels thing?!

 

Hi Arkade,

As far as I recall the test project submitted was successful. I'm prepared to refund you if after purchasing you're not able to use it for your requirement. Alternatively to save on that process if you have a simple sample project you'd like me to test this side, send through to univerbgamingstudios@gmail.com

On the website, to consolidate response and knowledge base moved all here.

 

Hello, I downloaded Benchy the other day to make up for the free version of Unity I have. So far this has really helped me narrow down and clarify some issues on mobile that I have had, much better than turning things on and off to find the issue.

I do have one thing to mention, this is why I'm posting. If I run Benchy for a test or two it will work, record, all good but when I go back to dev and run the game without starting a session I get some errors and I have to restart Unity to get out of it.

Some of the errors:

FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'UnityEngine.UI, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.
TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'UnityEditor.UI.GraphicEditor' from assembly 'UnityEditor.UI, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
System.MonoCustomAttrs.GetCustomAttributesBase (ICustomAttributeProvider obj, System.Type attributeType) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono-runtime-and-classlibs/build/mcs/class/corlib/System/MonoCustomAttrs.cs:108)
System.MonoCustomAttrs.GetCustomAttributes (ICustomAttributeProvider obj, System.Type attributeType, Boolean inherit) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono-runtime-and-classlibs/build/mcs/class/corlib/System/MonoCustomAttrs.cs:151)
System.MonoCustomAttrs.GetCustomAttributes (ICustomAttributeProvider obj, Boolean inherit) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono-runtime-and-classlibs/build/mcs/class/corlib/System/MonoCustomAttrs.cs:273)
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetCustomAttributes (Boolean inherit) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono-runtime-and-classlibs/build/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/Assembly.cs:240)
UnityEditor.AssemblyHelper.IsTypeInEditorAssembly (System.Type t) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/AssemblyHelper.cs:28)


Then it starts erroring out some of my game objects as well (not their fault).

 

Woah, that error looks pretty nasty. Which version of Unity are you using. Can you pass on reproduction steps of any kind.

Will dedicate time to look into this for you and thanks for alerting me to the issue.

 

Unity 4.6.3f1 It seems to have disrupted the DLLs or .NET target. It not continues to spit out this error whenever I attempt to play the game in the editor.

ReflectionTypeLoadException: The classes in the module cannot be loaded.

It points to an Assembly.cs file at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono-runtime-and-classlibs/build/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/Assembly.cs:371

It started after running a few sessions. I'm not exactly sure how you can recreate it, it's likely the way I installed the module.

It may have corrupted the UnityEngine.dll, I've been googling "ReflectionTypeLoadException: The classes in the module cannot be loaded." and some mention broken DLLs.

 

Thanks for your feedback. I will download a copy 4.6.3.

The good news is nothing Benchy injects into is permanent, when you stop the editor it restores the environment.

If something happens between those two points the fix project option under the Benchy menu resolves the issue.

What you're describing sounds to me like an event occurring sometime into profiling and when it runs (game object becomes active / script runs for first time) we see an error.

This error could signify a failed injection, something I've seen years ago in early versions of Benchy and fixed.

I'm wondering, would you be able to mail me a failing sample? It's sounding very specific to something in that project.

You can mail me any time, univerbgamingstudios@gmail.com

 

@parkerberg I've tested against 4.6.3 but couldn't recreate the issue. However in your posting you mentioned it errors after not starting a session. Ie hitting the play button.

Could you check the console after you stop profiling next time, you should see output that Benchy is restoring your assemblies. If anyone errors are present there it will point to the issue and I can take a better look.

You should also be using the latest version of Benchy Profiler if not already on it.

Keep me updated on this and please get in contact for a meet up via Skype to continue assistance.

Regards,
Univerb.

 

Special

I'll be running a good special on Benchy Profiler the next week or so, at least 30% off. Add the item to your wish lists now: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/3872

Benchy Profiler 3

I've been hard at work on Benchy Profiler 3. A bit behind schedule but the wait will be well worth it. I'll update you all a bit more the coming months. Benchy Profiler 2 is still supported and remember - the upgrade to Benchy Profiler 3 will be free for existing license holders.

 

Hi! Is it supposed to work with Unity 5? Any guidance on when it is gonna be?

 

Hi nick99

Unity 5 worked no problem in previous testing, Benchy Profiler 3 development is all on 5. If you're an existing customer and have an issue, please make contact via univerbgamingstudios@gmail.com so I can help you.