Very poor performance on Android after upgrading to Unity 5

did anyone fixed this problem or i need to back to 4.6

 

I would like to add that I am experiencing fine performance on a HTC One M8.

BUT....

If I run the exact same game on a HTC One M9 the performance is horrible.

Any ideas why a more powerfull phone performs way worse?

I noticed that the M9 has OpenGL ES 3.1 where the M8 has 3.0, does that have anything to do with it perhaps?

 

Well what happens when you restrict it to only Opengl 2?

 

It is already restricted to OpenGLES2 actually

 

Unchecking "Use 32 bit Display Buffer" at Player Settings increased performance on an 2d Game.

 

Note, this is certainly not a solution - without 32bit buffer you're going to get colour banding on gradients etc. Ok for some games but certainly not acceptable for others.

It's only improving performance at the (imo severe) cost of image quality.

 

I think i solved the problem in my case.

Try to adjusted your audio sources.

Take a look to the audio optimizations on this site:

http://www.paladinstudios.com/2012/07/30/4-ways-to-increase-performance-of-your-unity-game/

Works for me.

 

Anyone test any of there issues with 5.2.1 to see if performance has improved or made worse?

 

me,
without change setting i get 30/40fps with 5.2, 60fps in 5.1.1
i didnt read all this tread, can i solve this?

 

You might want to be more specific about the version. What version are you using? 5.2.0f1? 5.2.0p1? 5.2.1f1? 5.2.1p1?

 

its 5.2.1f1

 

Perhaps try 5.2.1p1 to see if that's any different: https://unity3d.com/unity/qa/patch-releases

 

For me it was Water4Advanced

 

Have no water in my scene so thats not it for me at least! ;(

 

Just to let you guys know. I have the same problem here. 5.2.1 running extremly slow on Android. Tested on 5 devices!

 

If you are interested to find people who have the same problem in order to resolve it, or maybe to help Unity resolve it by submitting a valuable bug report, you should create a new thread stating the actual problem instead of posting in this thread.
No one is able to follow this thread, because I have seen at least 4-5 different issues, yet everyone just agrees that the performance is not good and no one is actually interested to somehow do something about it.

 

Of course you are right. I will work on this issue and if I can't find a solution I will start a new thread with a detailed report.

 

Also got extreme performance issues on Android after upgrading to 5.2.1p1.
Back to 5.1.2 I guess.

 

Wait for 5.1.4 final and see how things are?

 

Also problem with upgrading from 5.1 -> 5.2:
In my 2D game, the sprites on the scene seems to have big performance issues. When I put a background of few big sprites streched on the screen, fps drops by 15-20. When I played around with different shaders, some gave a bit better fps, but still way worse than in 5.1

 

If you have the game in Unity 5.1 with known performance and then you try exactly the same in Unity 5.2 and the performance becomes significantly worse, it is a regression. If you submit a bug report with that project and if you mention there is a performance regression between Unity 5.1.x (pick the right version) and Unity 5.2.y (pick the right version), chances are high that Unity will investigate the issue.
If you submit it, make sure to post the case number here, such that people can vote for it who experience the same performance drop.

 

Eh, we wanted to upgrade to 5.2 because it fixed that WWW problem about it not showing the error status.
If 5.1.4 final solves it then it'd be great.

 

Might have found a fix, check all your UI Sprites or Images, and if they don't have a material:

- Add material with shader: Sprites/Default
(if image doesn't need transparency, use Mobile/Unlit)

I have a background scene compiled with several UI sprites, none had a material. After adding a default material to every sprite, performance was back to 60 fps.

 

On which phone model did you experience this drop and solution on?

 

In the same 2d project my lg g3 runs at 20 fps while my old Galaxy s3 runs at 50 fixed fps.I use Google play games plugin and UI with a text displaying the score that increases every 2 seconds.Any idea?

 

I also have a very critical performance problem.
The project i'm working on is only consisting of a few elements of the new UI (UGUI). 4 buttons and a scrollview with a few more buttons in it.
The devices i test on:
- Samsung Galaxy S3: Runs silky smooth. Scrolling the scrollview is just as it should be.
- LG L40 (very cheap smartphone): Performance is the same as on the S3.
- Nexus 7 (2013): Performance is abysmal, at max 10fps
- Samsung Note 10.1 (2014): Performance is as abysmal as on the Nexus 7.

Now the fun thing is that i started using the new UI with Unity 4.6. Back then everything i did ran the same on my Nexus 7, as it did on my S3. With Unity 5 that changed....drastically. I've done all the optimizations i read about. Solid camera clear color, non pixel perfect Canvas...hell there is not even much on the screen that could cause lags.

EDIT
All of the above is suddenly not true anymore, all i did was disabling deferred rendering and choosing forward instead. Dunno why i haven't tried that earlier, but now i feel stupid...
Now my UI is as smooth as it could be on all of the 4 devices listed above.

 

for complete the post above me, what is the best rendering path for a 2d game?
like this one (mine of course)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BIGsmall.AtomicCommand

 

That would be expected, deferred rendering relies on MRT which means essentially it's rendering to the screen 4 times over pretty much, so devices that don't have great bandwidth for textures would be a huge issue.

 

Tested my sample project today with Unity 5.2.2p1 and my scene is finally working with 60fps!

 

Does that mean you did nothing but change Unity version and that fixed your performance issues?

Sounds promising if that's the case!

 

Well I have been changing that test sample project last few months with every optimization suggestion that has been mentioned inside this forum thread. Actually I can't even remember how many things I have changed.
Last Unity version I've tried was 5.1.2p1 and with that version my project didn't work correctly.
Today I've tried it with 5.2.2p1 without any additional tweaking and it finally works. Here and there, there is sometimes drop in FPS but for me there is significant increase in performance.

 

UI-Default.shader for Unity 5.1 version and Unity 5.2 version seems to be different.
As they added 2D Rect Mask in Unity 5.2, they changed the code for the frag shader part of UI-Default.shader

so this is the code after they made a change (5.2):

Code (CSharp):

1. fixed4 frag(v2f IN) : SV_Target
2. {
3.     half4 color = (tex2D(_MainTex, IN.texcoord) + _TextureSampleAdd) * IN.color;
4.  
5.     if (_UseClipRect)
6.         color *= UnityGet2DClipping(IN.worldPosition.xy, _ClipRect);
7.  
8.     if (_UseAlphaClip)
9.         clip (color.a - 0.001);
10.  
11.     return color;
12. }

and the code below is the code before the change (5.1):

Code (CSharp):

1. fixed4 frag(v2f IN) : SV_Target
2. {
3.     half4 color = tex2D(_MainTex, IN.texcoord) * IN.color;
4.     clip (color.a - 0.01);
5.     return color;
6. }

I wonder if this could affect the overall performance.

I've posted an inquiry regarding this:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/wh...p-work-in-ui-default-shader-of-newgui.364134/

 

Does anyone else seen improvements in 5.2.2p1?

 

I think you will need to install it, go through your pain again

 

Not again! 5th time....

 

I have installed 5.2.2p2 and tried my project. Still the same crappy performance. I have sent a new bug report to Unity (Case 741437) with all my project in it, I hope this helps because their Pro version says: 'Prioritized bug handling' and I have paid for 3 licenses (Pro, Android, iOS) and still I cannot update to the latest Unity. I am downgrading again!

 

My issue was solved, or at least improved in 5.2.2 f1, so that just goes to show that this thread is full of different problems

 

I have also tried 5.3B4 and the performance is exactly the same as 5.2.2. Bad.

 

How? Did you do something?

 

No, but my problem was bad performance when I ran my project on HTC One M9, but good performance on a HTC One M8. Have changet som stuff here and there, but nothing that should have an impact as far as I can see. So it is a mystery, I do not see any obvious reason for the sudden improvement in the release notes either

 

I'm still waiting for a reply for my performance bug report. Case 741437

 

Hello guys, As i see many of you got worse performance after going to Unity 5x. I did some in depth GPU profiling with adreno profiler and got these results:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-5-2-and-android.366097/

Could someone confirm this with their android (adreno)?

I also submitted a bug report: https://fogbugz.unity3d.com/default.asp?742371_0du96i78ubrrcapl

Biggest conclusion of my research: static batching is broken on android... and some weird opengl calls.

 

Guys the 5.2.2f1 does not improved any peformance for me.

On game it self i get solid 60 fps with 3d objects and lots of canvas (in world space), but in main menu i get only 30 and after a lot of optimizations.

So i have the idea of simplify the unity UI/Default shader to my needs, removing about every thing i possible can.
See the attached files for the shader

After that my main menu scene get up to 60 fps.

Since is a simpler shader some functionality may not work, like masks. you still can use RectMask2D to cut of elements too far away in lists.

Then you cannot use this on every element in your scene, but try to use at least on the bigger images, the ones that take more screen space.

 

I too am getting horrible performance. In an empty scene, I get ~10 fps. I used the Profiler and noticed "Physics.Processing" consumed about 40% of resources which is strange because it's an empty scene.

 

I've tried your shader and the performance boosted from 60 fps to 100 fps! Although my images weren't displayed correctly anymore, you can see that there lies a potential problem!

 

@henkjan try the shaders in this post:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/wh...p-work-in-ui-default-shader-of-newgui.364134/

 

I found this too..
if some sprite || Text is moving! the performance killer come!
no moving is good ...but game also need this....TAT

 

Thanks, it looks like this helps!

 

Hi! I just want to help a little bit the people who has not read all this thread. I readed almost all this thread (I reached page 8 so far), and i make a simple list with some of the suggestions to increase the performance in unity 5 android.

Here's the list:

Hope to be useful to you. Bye!

 

New beta for 5.3 says: Android: Optimized Standard Shader performance for OpenGL ES 2.0 devices
Did they fix any of our problems? Anyone tried it?