Lower Performance In Simulation Than Play

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hello,

Does anyone have any idea why my game does worse in Simulation than Play?

Simulation:

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image183×195 47.3 KB

Play:

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image185×211 40.1 KB

Editor:

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You can see that my Game and Draw are higher in Play (as they should be), but for some reason, Frame is severely bloated. I added the Editor as a control.

GPT and GEMINI mention that it’s the Editor acting up, and not a real indication of actual performance… but… I dunno… I need a human.

To be clear, I pressed “G” to get rid of the excess drawings in simulation mode. It’s even worse when “G” is not pressed.

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Okay, so I learned that in Simulation Mode the Slate really takes over. If you right-click on the screen, this overrides that Slate, and the FPS jumps up. Not really sure why. But I did notice that, depending on where you place you mouse at any time in Unreal, the FPS will fluctuate.