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Particle/standard surface takes huge memory!

Discussion in 'General Graphics' started by mahdiii, Jan 12, 2019.

  1. mahdiii

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    Hi. I see that Particle/standard surface shader takes huge memory (almost 35MB) in the profiler.
    Likewise, I do not use nature shader but I can see them in the profiler nature/train, speed tree, etc. (almost 3MB)
    My graphics setting
     

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    mahdiii, Jan 12, 2019
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  2. Peter77

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    Did you profile a build on the target hardware or inside the editor?
     
    Peter77, Jan 12, 2019
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  3. mahdiii

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    Sorry. Inside the editor
     
    mahdiii, Jan 12, 2019
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  4. Peter77

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    Can you profile a build running on the target platform instead? Unity Technologies generally recommend to measure an actual build, not in the Editor; in the Editor there's a lot of added overhead that will distort your results.

    Somewhat related, I found this video quite interesting.
     
    Peter77, Jan 12, 2019
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    Pump, richardkettlewell and mahdiii like this.

  5. Dr-Game

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    HI~ Didi you get the answer?? I have same issue too.
     
    Dr-Game, Mar 16, 2020
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  6. richardkettlewell

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    richardkettlewell, Mar 16, 2020
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  7. Dr-Game

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    I test it in mobile device with profiler. then find that

    Particle/standard surface dose not exist in memory.
     
    Dr-Game, Mar 18, 2020
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  8. caiyikeji

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    2021.3.13 still have this problem
     
    caiyikeji, Dec 8, 2022
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  9. khushalkhan

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    any alternative for this shader with low memory consumption
     
    khushalkhan, Dec 23, 2022
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