Unity Tutorial Simple tutorial to prevent your Unity game from overheating your players' devices

[LS47]

Hi everyone, hopefully this thread won't be buried at the bottom of the forum in the next week. I apologize in advance if I make any English mistakes, I'm not a native speaker.

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Spoiler: Automate the process

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With all of this, I hope I see less Unity games making my fans spin fast enough to compete with the new Starlink rocket. I know this might be quite a lot to take in for beginners but this scripts works perfectly well as a standalone; I've provided examples on how to use it, so if there is a point you don't get yet, just reread the tutorial one step at a time and you'll be good to go.

 

[El Tomaso]

Thanks a lot for the script. I was wondering why my simple game was using this much cpu, and I couldn't find anything in the quality settings.

I went ahead and used Screen.currentResolution.refreshRate instead of 60. This way it depends on the users monitor. It works like a charm

 

[LS47]

I went ahead and used Screen.currentResolution.refreshRate instead of 60. This way it depends on the users monitor. It works like a charm

Great idea, I didn't know about that. I went ahead and edited the script I posted to use the current refresh rate instead.

 

[Sentinel Sparrow]

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OP script is still relevant and it works

Spoiler: How to use OP script

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i made a beginner friendly version of this for Unity 6 LTS.

• A single copy paste script
• Editor UI that saves automagically

Spoiler: Script here

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Cheers ^ ^

 

[LS47]

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OP script is still relevant and it works

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i made a beginner friendly version of this for Unity 6 LTS.

• A single copy paste script
• Editor UI that saves automagically

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Spoiler: Script here

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Spoiler: Guide

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Cheers ^ ^

Pretty cool, thanks for the addon! I thought the script already had the using UnityEngine, must have been deleted when I saved the file. Anyways, my version doesn't go this far, I like to make short scripts that go to the point, I didn't delve much deeper for a first tutorial. Maybe I should make more of them....

 

[Sentinel Sparrow]

hell yeah, please do make more, your script was to the point and perfect 11/10

Spoiler: Updated your script

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i wanted to make sure ppl knew this was still an excellent performance script (since it was last edited in 2023).
i also thought newbs would like a user interface to change the settings without code and a visualization of the performance.

Now there's really no reason for unity games to spin fans ;D
Thanks btw ^ ^