Good news here for some game developers, as RAD Game Tools 'Telemetry' [Official Site], a performance visualizer has just added support for Linux.
As of the latest release yesterday, it officially adds Linux support for the Visualizer and adds in some Linux command-line tools! You can see the full changelog here.
Telemetry helps you optimize and understand your application's performance—unlike other traditional profilers it emphasizes performance characteristics in relationship to time and program state, whole-team participation of optimization, always-on profiling, cross-platform support, and ultrafast integration.
Telemetry is a performance visualizer, so all your performance information is presented graphically—why wade through rows of numbers trying to find patterns when Telemetry can show you those patterns?!
Never heard of it before? They have an overview video to give you an idea of exactly what it can do:
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Pricing is usually done per-game and per-platform, check out the official site for more information. It's likely something for bigger development studios to use, but the more they have that's available on Linux directly, the better!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I'd say, get away from this sore excuse of a 3rd-party provider as fast as possible and never look back!
Last edited by Alm888 on 13 March 2018 at 8:12 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestThey are.. but licensed per platform and thus often not cost effective on OS X or Linux :/
That's a good point. Adds extra cost for something that probably won't have as high ROI to begin with.
Looks per platform, per game too.
Quoting: GuestQuoting: mirvThat's a good point. Adds extra cost for something that probably won't have as high ROI to begin with.
Looks per platform, per game too.
You can get a site license, but yes it's per platform, and the cost of it is huge. If you're not a huge dev studio, forget it. We ended up rolling our own code into eON that output data for chrome://tracing to view.
I've been wondering if I should do something simple for my own project(s), or try use something from the CPU manufacturer (AMD in my case). In either case, I wonder what something more costly gives over freely available tools anyway (I've not really used many for x86, so I do actually wonder!).
Quoting: michaGreat to see RAD offer Linux support now. Their tools are among the very best!
Judging by some guys who work for RAD that I know from Twitter, that's quite likely true. :)
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