Practical articles on CPU, GPU, memory and engineering process optimization.
"Niche" Shader Tricks to Remove Costly Overdraw: Overdraw is where your GPU starts burning cycles for pixels players never really see. Ignore it, and your game can fall off a frame-time cliff the moment effects stack up.
Huge Worlds, Huge Performance: Huge worlds fail when you treat memory like it is infinite. If everything stays loaded, you hit a bottleneck wall in memory, loading, and frame stability long before your content roadmap is done.
Metrics: The Gathering: If you cannot explain your performance with numbers, you cannot control it. Teams that skip metric discipline end up arguing opinions while regressions keep shipping.
Discover the performance challenges of crowd rendering & how to render thousands of character in Unity within your tight performance budget
Sexy Scripting: Events, Delegates & More: Your gameplay code can look clean and still be a hidden GC machine. Event registration patterns and JSON deserialization choices quietly add per-frame garbage that turns into stutter when load rises.
Dynamic Resolution & Upscaling: FSR, DLSS, TAAU & more: When your GPU hits a fragment bottleneck, quality settings alone will not save you. You need a controlled way to avoid the frame-time cliff without shipping a blurry disaster.
Make your expensive scripts cost nothing while they are offscreen
MEM - Class vs Struct in Gamedev: If your frame time keeps spiking for "no reason," you are probably paying silent GC debt. The class-vs-struct myth and careless string handling can push you into a frame-time cliff long before you notice it in gameplay.
Engineering a Consistent Profiling Scenario (CPS): You do not have a performance problem, you have a measurement problem. When every test run starts in a different place, with random AI and random CPU frequencies, your team burns days chasing fake regressions.
Nuke Your Loading Times: Your first 10 seconds are where players decide to stay or bounce. If launch flow drags, you are bleeding retention before gameplay even starts, and every release becomes loading-time firefighting.
Discover the true cost you're paying for the sneaky "shader variants" that Unity creates by default and how to stop paying for it.
Learn how to protect your most sensitive code from the classic "sloppy programming" by using the KISS Transaction Pattern for Unity.