I’m in the later stages of optimizing my game and I’m seeing spikes labeled as Overhead up to about 28ms which is clearly unacceptable.
What kind of recourse do I have for optimizing Overhead stuff? Is there anything I can do about this?
Are you using C# or Javascript? There are some language specific things to be aware of.
If your overhead spikes to at regular intervals, it’s likely that you have lots of temporary objects being created per-frame and every once in a while the Garbage Collector is causing a slowdown trying to clean it all up. Here’s an article on MSDN explaining the GC and performance issues.