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Game has noticeable frame drops but when through a profiler it always runs smooth
I'm trying to optimize my PC game but I can find the bottleneck since every time I run it through a profiler (gDEBugger) it runs smooths. When running outside gDEBugger I get these annoying hiccups. ...
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How to check battery usage of an iPhone/Android app?
I think the title says Enough. For example Unity can generate you a report how much CPU/GPU power it's using or how fast it's going to drain device battery, but what about the applications developed ...
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Profiling and containing memory per system
I have been interesting in profiling and keeping a managed memory pool for each subsystem, so I could get statistic on how much memory was being used in something such as sounds or graphics. However, ...
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How are profiling- and tracing -techniques used in Game Development?
I feel that in order to create realistic real-life games, game developers need some ways to monitor the system itself i.e. players' moves, other events and the state of the system itself. I know that ...
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How to check Early Z efficiency on AMD GPU with Windows 7
I have a game using DirectX 9, and a development station using Win 7 x64. I am still able to get access to another station with Vista x64 / dual booted with WinXP x86.
I wanted to check early Z ...
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Profiling code with threads and script interpreter
Basically, how I profile a game that have multithreading and script interpreter? (Lua in my case)
I have no idea of where to look for that.
Also it would be nice to be able to profile code that ...
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Profiling server side game loop in java
I am looking for tips to profile the server side game loop of a Java program for CPU usage. I tried to use the TPTP plugin for Eclipse so far.
The problem I am having is that it is really slow. For ...
