Using the Profiler window

Unity has a native tool that helps us to examine how our game performs. This is a Profiler tool and is accessible via the Window | Profiler top menu option. As you can see in the following illustration, there are 13 components available in the Profiler window:

Profiler Components

The individual Profiler names provide a clear indication of what performance measure is being analyzed. In order to fully explore the Profiler window, let's get it up and running with the following steps:

  1. Open your Unity game project. Alternatively, you can download the Starting-Chapter-13 Unity project available from the publisher's companion ...

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