Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Game performance analysis
While building games, a lot of intense processing and analysis is done to create a real-time
environment of the game, so there is a huge requirement of game performance analysis to
be done for the smooth functioning of a game or it can be a software product also.
From a user's perspective, if the game becomes slow or stops responding, technically de-
creasing the frame rate, users are likely to get frustrated by the game they are playing and
will look for an alternative. So there has to be a good level of performance of games, which
can be achieved by a game developer by doing performance analysis, which also helps in
identifying problems easily and then fixing them.
So in the field of software performance analysis, developers need to use specific tools and
the performance documentation so that they can identify and fix common performance is-
sues thereby building a game with a stable and better performance.
In this recipe, we look at some performance tools for an application, how to use them, de-
termine the lose pools, and fix them, thereby maintaining a better performance level for the
application.
