Superluminal#

Superluminal is a sampling profiler, it halts the CPU at 8-40khz (depending on platform) and reads the state of the stack. So more data is better data, and looking at individual traces might not produce extremely accurate results like a traditional instrumentation profiler. So when you're looking at timings note that while you can use it like Unity's profiler, you'll likely get better results by selecting a large range of the capture that you think contains the issue.

Setup#

1. Install Superluminal and note where you installed it.
2. In the Unity Hub use the dropdown next to the project to Add Command line arguments. Add -monoProfiler superluminal
3. Copy the mono profiling dll from Superluminal to Unity:
   1. In the Hub, find your 2019.4.40 install and show in explorer.
   2. Find the Superluminal install and open the Unity > x64 directory.
   3. Copy the mono-profiler-superluminal.dll into the Unity install directory, next to the exe.
4. Reopen the Unity project.
5. In Superluminal add http://symbolserver.unity3d.com/ to the symbol file locations.
6. When you use the Attach menu to attach to Unity.exe, it will start profiling immediately, so only do it when you're ready to profile!