Unity Engine/ Performance Technical Question for Devs
Dripdry
Georgia Join Date: 2017-01-03 Member: 226041Members
Georgia Join Date: 2017-01-03 Member: 226041Members
Hi:
I know the Devs don't answer questions much, but maybe someone here can answer it too.
1) It appears that at some point Subnautica was upgraded to Unity 5.4
2) From what I've read from recent conferences/announcements, Unity is making it a priority to rewrite their engine to use ALL cores on a CPU.
3) As I understand it, the limitation for having lots of objects in a game, as in Subnautica (which seems to be really pushing the engine, hence performance issues), is the CPU (although the GPU is pushed too of course)
4) Dev Question: Will you be upgrading Subnautica to Unity 5.5/5.6/etc. at some point in order to take advantage of all the extra processing power coming down the pike with 6 and 8-core CPUs? Apparently Unity will begin redefining what jobs are (their parlance), and allowing them to be pushed off to other cores much more easily.
More pointedly: Is the CPU a major bottleneck for pushing all the work the engine is doing (YES I know I'll get people coming in saying the GPU does lots of work, I know it does, but as I understand it the CPU does handle the Unity engine itself, see #3).
Thanks in advance!
I know the Devs don't answer questions much, but maybe someone here can answer it too.
1) It appears that at some point Subnautica was upgraded to Unity 5.4
2) From what I've read from recent conferences/announcements, Unity is making it a priority to rewrite their engine to use ALL cores on a CPU.
3) As I understand it, the limitation for having lots of objects in a game, as in Subnautica (which seems to be really pushing the engine, hence performance issues), is the CPU (although the GPU is pushed too of course)
4) Dev Question: Will you be upgrading Subnautica to Unity 5.5/5.6/etc. at some point in order to take advantage of all the extra processing power coming down the pike with 6 and 8-core CPUs? Apparently Unity will begin redefining what jobs are (their parlance), and allowing them to be pushed off to other cores much more easily.
More pointedly: Is the CPU a major bottleneck for pushing all the work the engine is doing (YES I know I'll get people coming in saying the GPU does lots of work, I know it does, but as I understand it the CPU does handle the Unity engine itself, see #3).
Thanks in advance!
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