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getting low FPS in the Hololens device
Hi guys,
I started from scratch a Unity project, then I created a terrain. The complete scene have 66.8k triangles, 38.1k vertices. The Hololens device renders an unpleasant 25~30FPS. The project is running on release/x86, using the option 'start without debugging'. Also, in Edit/project settings/quality I set as default the 'simple' setting for the UWP and unchecked good/beautiful and fantastic. Any ideas?
PS: The hololens gets warm when I run this small project. I can notice on my head, and its hot when I touch it with my hands.
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Here is a post with some tips about terrain performance that might help.
Have you tried removing the terrain and just putting in a similar sized plain to compare frame rates and performance between the two?
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How many draw calls are you seeing? That will have a large impact on performance. In mobile game development you generally try to get around 30-50 draw calls. Adding more lights increases the draw calls, as well as shadows I believe. If you're using a lot of different texture maps, that will do it as well. Each texture map adds a draw call I believe, there are some plugins out there for Unity that will merge (they call it atlas) multiple texture maps for multiple objects into a single texture map for draw call reduction. Anything that doesn't require dynamic lighting should be marked as static as well.
Edit: Also, make sure you're running on the 'fastest' performance preset for Unity on your build export settings.
Great link @HoloSheep that provided a lot of information. Very appreciated.
@Jarrod1937 I have only 1 light, 4 textures (large textures!) and the terrain (somewhat large). I think I'll simplify to see the results, and use your advice of 'fastest' quality. Thanks!
There are some HoloLens Unity performance settings that are recommended that may help. These can make quite the performance difference. (Fastest quality level, shader preloading, rendering path -> forward, 16 bit depth buffers)