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Performance Improvements ETA?
The performance I'm seeing with native Oculus integration in Unity 5.1 has been poor since it was released compared to the old script-based solution. On my Nvidia GTX 970, I'm seeing ~185FPS reduced ...
I've just upgraded my GearVR project from unity 4.6 to 5.1.3p2 and I am noticing a few things.
1. AA has disappeared from OVRManager and I need to set the AA in Unity to 8x to get similar results as the 2x in the OVRManager. This does not help performance.
2. I am using OVRManager.display.acceleration for triggering jumps, this does no longer work (I'll need to investigate this further)
3. The main thread goes from 0.5ms on Unity 4 to 0.7-1.0ms on Unity 5. A 40% performance penalty (at best) really hurts when you're just barely hugging 60fps in Unity 4.
All of the above is making it impossible to transition to Unity 5. This is a shame since I cannot justify buying Unity pro ($75 * 2 * 12 = $1800) and release a game to a platform that even in the best of worlds (where everyone buys the game) would not even pay for the license cost. :-/
Unity free is an option, but having no static batching, no profiler and a monoscopic broken splash screen takes the fun out of things.
1. AA has disappeared from OVRManager and I need to set the AA in Unity to 8x to get similar results as the 2x in the OVRManager. This does not help performance.
2. I am using OVRManager.display.acceleration for triggering jumps, this does no longer work (I'll need to investigate this further)
3. The main thread goes from 0.5ms on Unity 4 to 0.7-1.0ms on Unity 5. A 40% performance penalty (at best) really hurts when you're just barely hugging 60fps in Unity 4.
All of the above is making it impossible to transition to Unity 5. This is a shame since I cannot justify buying Unity pro ($75 * 2 * 12 = $1800) and release a game to a platform that even in the best of worlds (where everyone buys the game) would not even pay for the license cost. :-/
Unity free is an option, but having no static batching, no profiler and a monoscopic broken splash screen takes the fun out of things.