Unity Profiler strange

Performance & Profiling Profiling Tools
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Hello,

I’m having massive memory problems with textures, so i decided to use the profiler for the first time.

I ran it in the editor, shocked to see it says im using 700MB in texture memory. I just have a 256x256 terrain and some trees on it, a prefab house, and the Unity advanced4water . Im like wow, if I have so little on the screen and thats already 700mb how do other people who write these huge games do it, they must be using a tera byte of RAM in the browser!

Just as a test i select “new” from the file menu to create a blank scene, then i ran that in the profiler, it says I have over 2100 textures consuming 22mb and over 3000 assets??? this is with a BLANK project containing just a camera and a light.

Attached is a screen shot of the profiler.

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Maybe im not using the profiler correctly?

Anybody have an idea what im doing wrong?

Thanks

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Profile the runtime, not the editor, which has many assets required to display all the stuff in the inspector and so on.

–Eric

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Hello eric,

Thanks for your help.

So its the inspector thats using 3600 assets and 2147 textures? in a blank scene! amazing!

I guess you mean to do a WebGL build and run that in the browser and then use the profiler?

Thanks

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Yes, profiling the build is more accurate. The editor is written with OnGUI code, so there are a lot of buttons and widgets and fonts and stuff that you don’t have in a build.

–Eric