Official New 75 page guide on profiling in Unity available

Hi everyone,

We’ve just wrapped up a new e-book for profiling your games. We know that smooth performance is essential to creating immersive gaming experiences – and to achieve that, you need to profile your game. Not only do you need to know what tools to use, and how, but when to use them.

This 70+ page guide to advanced profiling was created together with both internal and external experts. It compiles advice and knowledge on how to profile an application in Unity and identify performance bottlenecks, among other best practices.

>>Download free e-book on profiling

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.

We hope you find this guide useful! If you think something is missing or could be improved - do let us know in this thread, and we could add it to the next edition of the guide.

Also, make sure to visit our website to discover more e-books and other learning content.

 

Glad to hear the guide is useful. Please let me know if you have suggestions for improvements as we plan to update it to a new edition. We got several more ebooks in the works too. We don't have a notification system or a dedicated newsletter for announcing when they become ready but we are looking into creating a webpage with an overview of all the best practice content.

 

We also created this flowchart from the ebook as a pdf in case anyone finds that useful to reference in the profiling process (you can also find it in this blog post).

 

Thanks for flagging Brad and sorry about that. Looks like something went wrong in the last version. I'll check with our designer so we can get a new version uploaded (replacing the existing pdf but same URL).

We actually just launched 3 x webpages covering most of the ebook here if you prefer web:
https://unity.com/how-to/use-memory-profiling-unity
https://unity.com/how-to/best-practices-for-profiling-game-performance
https://unity.com/how-to/profiling-and-debugging-tools

 

Hey Jes. Yes, we are actually working on that right now so it will be much easier to find. I realize its not optimal solution right now. Here are a few performance-related ones:
https://unity.com/how-to/mobile-game-optimization-tips-part-1
https://unity.com/how-to/mobile-game-optimization-tips-part-2
And 6 more how-pages are in the works based on the console/PC and mobile optimization guide. For those who haven't seen it yet there is also a webinar on June 14th (it will be recorded so those reading this after can check it out too). A couple of the experts who helped create the profiling guide are part of the panel and Sybo (Subway Surfers) will be joining too to share some tips, if that could be helpful/interesting.

 

Hey Brad. We updated the pdf so the images/screenshot compression is fixed and is readable again. Apologies for that.

 

Hey everyone
Wanted to share that our profiling R&D team is doing a survey at the moment to learn more about the experience with the profiling tools that could be improved. So if if you have used profiling tools before (even just once or similarly if you are using it every day) or are working on a project that requires optimization, we would love to get your input via this brief survey which is designed to take no more than 5-10 minutes of your time. At the completion of the survey, you will have the possibility to opt-in for a follow-up interview, where you share more in-depth feedback directly with the team. If interested, you might also be involved in providing feedback on potential prototypes of new features as we address the feedback received (good and bad)!

 

Hey everyone. We have now added a section with links to the ebooks on our documentation pages (latest version but we will also add on the 2020 LTS and forward): https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.1/Documentation/Manual/best-practice-guides.html to help make them easier to find. We are also working closely with the documentation and Learn team to adopt some of the content into their formats and we are also made the "how to pages" available here: https://unity.com/how-to. Hope this helps makes the ebooks easier to find