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# Game Performance Mobile

> Optimize Unity 6 mobile game performance 60fps target, 16ms frame budget, thermal throttling…

A complete optimization system for sustaining 60fps on Unity 6 mobile games across iOS and Android. It enforces a 16ms frame budget decomposed across subsystems, auto-detects device tier (Low/Medium/High) from hardware profile, and adapts quality in real time to prevent thermal throttling and battery drain. Built on a measure-then-optimize discipline using profiler data, frame-time percentiles, and graceful degradation.

## Use cases
- Setting up target frame rate, vSync, and thermal monitoring on a new mobile project
- Diagnosing an FPS drop from 60 to 40 or a thermal throttling complaint
- Supporting low-end Android devices while holding 60fps on flagships
- Cutting battery drain that triggers one-star reviews and store penalties
- Proving sustained 60fps for Apple and Google performance review before submit
- Eliminating GC spikes from frequent spawn/despawn with object pooling

## Benefits
- Hold a smooth, consistent frame rate that players feel as responsiveness
- Reach the entire low-end Android market from one bundle via runtime tier detection
- Protect retention by keeping battery drain and device heat in check
- Pass store performance reviews with profiler-verified P95 frame times under budget

## What’s included
- Frame-budget decomposition across main thread, render, GPU, physics, and UI
- Device-tier detector that reads RAM, cores, and GPU to pick quality at bootstrap
- Runtime thermal watcher that degrades quality on iOS and Android fallbacks
- Object pooling, addressable async loading, and frame-time spike detection patterns
- Graceful quality hot-swap with smooth transition during thermal or memory events
- iOS-versus-Android gotchas table and a sustained-60fps verification checklist

## Who it’s for
Unity mobile game developers who need consistent 60fps across a wide device range without shipping separate builds for low-end hardware.

## How it runs
Sixty frames per second on a phone is a budget problem. The skill measures before optimizing, splits 16.67ms into hard sub-budgets, tiers devices at bootstrap, and downgrades quality the moment thermals demand it.
1. Measures before touching anything: Profiler data and a P95/P99 frame time histogram come first, because optimizing on a hunch is the most common waste of time in mobile performance work.
2. Splits the 16.67ms frame budget into hard sub-budgets: main thread logic 10ms (physics 2, animation 2, AI 1, UI 2, gameplay 3), render submit 4ms, GPU 6ms with overlap. Any system over its budget gets optimized; stretching the budget is forbidden because overruns compound into visible jank.
3. Detects the device tier at bootstrap: RAM, core count, GPU memory and graphics API decide Low, Medium or High, the result is cached in PlayerPrefs, and tier settings are applied (Low gets 30fps target with shadows off, High gets full quality with optional 120Hz).
4. Watches thermal state every 5 seconds at runtime: on iOS Serious drops the frame target to 45 and halves particles, Critical drops to 30 and kills post-processing. The tier only ever goes down during a session, never back up, because players notice quality flapping.
5. Eliminates GC pressure with object pools for bullets, enemies and damage numbers (preallocated to worst-case boss fight size), and streams assets through Addressables async loads with a 3-second timeout that falls back to embedded assets.
6. Verifies against the checklist: P95 frame time under 16.67ms, battery drain under 5 percent per 10 minutes of play, a 30-minute sustained thermal test, and a production build with the development flag stripped.

## FAQ
### I target both flagship iPhones and budget Androids, do I need separate builds?
No. The device-tier detector reads RAM, core count, and GPU at bootstrap and picks Low, Medium, or High quality from a single bundle, so one build covers the whole device range.

### How does it prevent thermal throttling instead of just reacting after the FPS drops?
A runtime thermal watcher degrades quality gradually as the device heats up, before the OS forces a throttle. Underneath sits a measure-then-optimize discipline built on profiler data and P95 frame-time percentiles, not guesswork.

### Will it make a badly architected game hit 60fps on its own?
No. It decomposes the 16ms frame budget across main thread, render, GPU, physics, and UI so you can see where the time goes, and supplies patterns like object pooling, but it won't rewrite heavy game logic for you.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

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