FPS drops for 1 second when initializing Unity Ads

Hi there,

As the title says, the FPS drops to 10 for 1 second when initializing the Unity Ads(very noticeable). - tested on high-end Android devices.

Do you have any suggestion on how to make the initialization process less noticeable?

I though about initializing it on another thread, but it appears to work with Unity's Main-Thread-only objects.

Thanks,
Lidan

 

Hello,

When are you trying to initialize the ad network. You should cover that fps drop with some static screens at the begining of your game. Something like splash screen.

Regards,

 

Thanks for your reply.

It's a bit problematic because I'm already starting the initialization at the Start method.
The initialization can take several seconds (because it's starting to load a video or images).
I assume that after it loads all the data from the web server, it writes it to disk. I don't want to wait until all that finishes at my Splash Screen.

I really think there should be a support for separating the async part of the initialization (web communication, serialization, etc) and the part that needs the main UI thread.

Can you please let me know if you have any idea on how to overcome this issue?

Thanks,
Lidan

 

I've checked with the profiling and I see these two methods.
I bet we can deserialize on a different thread. Please try to help with this issue. I really hate FPS drops (so are the users...)

 

Excellent news, I hope the next release is "soonish" and not few weeks timing?. Are you planning to do releases similar to Unity each week or other week if there is any bugs found..