--- title: Analyze First, Then Optimize - Game Optimization -... description: In this video, I talk about why it's important to analyze your game first before you do any optimization. And I demonstrate the first thing you need to know... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/analyze-first-then-optimize---game-optimization---episode-4-1nwla831g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Analyze First, Then Optimize - Game Optimization - Episode 4 | daily.dev og:description: In this video, I talk about why it's important to analyze your game first before you do any optimization. And I demonstrate the first thing you need to know... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/analyze-first-then-optimize---game-optimization---episode-4-1nwla831g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1NwLA831g.png og:image:alt: Analyze First, Then Optimize - Game Optimization - Episode 4 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Analyze First, Then Optimize - Game Optimization - Episode 4 **[Ben Cloward](https://daily.dev/sources/bencloward)** · 27 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary In this video, I talk about why it's important to analyze your game first before you do any optimization. And I demonstrate the first thing you need to know about your scene when analyzing it. This video shows my method for adding a framerate counter in Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wCgKj4Tk8A Here's last week's video about what to do during preproduction: https://youtu.be/Q05R_UKhRo4 Take a look at the playlist for the whole series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lG4wvgfyGECmB8XiJLCgfFD Shader Book Recommendations https://www.bencloward.com/resources_books.shtml ------------------------------ Theme Music Peace in the Circuitry - Glitch Hop http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1526 Background Music Speo - The Little Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvCYuyyLgC0 #UnrealEngine #shadergraph #Unity ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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