Worse Performance when not plugged in!

[totsboy]

Hey Guys!
I’m experiencing a weird behavior testing my game on a Lumia 520 here:
If I Build from Unity and then Run from Visual Studio (Master), the game runs totally fine.
If I Build Run from Unity, or if I play with the device disconnected there is a scene where the performance drops significantly to the point where it’s unplayable.
Does this make any sense? I don’t even know how to tackle this, since it’s not showing any error when plugged in and I can’t see output playing unplugged

[mantler]

Does the unity player log have anything useful? From https://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/wp8-debugging.html:

If debugging doesn’t help to resolve your issue it might be useful to examine UnityPlayer.log file. It’s located on the phone and can be retrieved by utility called Windows Phone Power Tools

[totsboy]

@mantler

Does the unity player log have anything useful? From https://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/wp8-debugging.html:

Totally forgot about that!

But no, just checked and there’s nothing unusual.
I Have some prints of he allocated memory:

Mono heap size: 0
 
(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d3d49558e4d408f4/artifacts/WP8SupportGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 55)

Profiler.GetMonoUsedSize(): 0
 
(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d3d49558e4d408f4/artifacts/WP8SupportGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 55)

Profiler.GetTotalAllocatedMemory(): 39
 
(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d3d49558e4d408f4/artifacts/WP8SupportGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 55)

Profiler.GetTotalReservedMemory(): 40
 
(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d3d49558e4d408f4/artifacts/WP8SupportGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 55)

Profiler.GetTotalUnusedReservedMemory(): 1
 
(Filename: C:/BuildAgent/work/d3d49558e4d408f4/artifacts/WP8SupportGenerated/UnityEngineDebug.cpp Line: 55)

System.GC.GetTotalMemory(true): 8

What really bugs me is that it only happens on this scene so far

[Tautvydas-Zilys]

Hi,

Build and Run deploys a “development build”, so it’s only natural that performance is worse than master.

[totsboy]

@Tautvydas Zilys

Hi,

Build and Run deploys a “development build”, so it’s only natural that performance is worse than master.

I thought it deplyed a development build when the the checkbox was marked! Good to know!

BUT the performance issue also happens when I build (Master) from Visual Studio and then unplug the phone to play =(

[guavaman]

@totsboy

I thought it deplyed a development build when the the checkbox was marked! Good to know!

BUT the performance issue also happens when I build (Master) from Visual Studio and then unplug the phone to play =(

Could it be the phone throttles the CPU/GPU when on battery? Is your battery fully charged? Even so I wouldn’t think it should slow to the point where its unplayable.

[totsboy]

@guavaman

Could it be the phone throttles the CPU/GPU when on battery? Is your battery fully charged? Even so I wouldn’t think it should slow to the point where its unplayable.

I don’t think that’s the case because it only happens in one scene!
But it’s a good guess nonetheless, I’ll try it with the phone fully charged to see if anything changes.