# Why is Slate UI eating ~17ms in a basically empty project?

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-is-slate-ui-eating-17ms-in-a-basically-empty-project/446597>\
**Category:** UI\
**Tags:** profiling, frames, details-panel-ui, unreal-engine, slate, UI, question\
**Created:** [April 4, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-is-slate-ui-eating-17ms-in-a-basically-empty-project/446597 "2019-04-04T11:32:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![stuck\_compiling](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@stuck\_compiling](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/stuck_compiling)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-is-slate-ui-eating-17ms-in-a-basically-empty-project/446597/1 "2019-04-04T11:32:51Z")

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I have a scene with a plane that serves as the floor and three lowpoly shapes sharing the same shader. Everything is unlit, simple and there is no UI. I open up stat GPU and I see that something called Slate UI is taking all of my frame time. What’s going on here?

![273266-what.png](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/6/0/3/603c5d975fcb2a4c63c373e45d5985f010774a1b.png)

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**Author:** ![Bariudol](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Bariudol](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Bariudol)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-is-slate-ui-eating-17ms-in-a-basically-empty-project/446597/2 "2019-04-04T13:01:20Z")

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If you are running the game in editor that is the editor UI which is rendered by Slate. Try running your game in standalone.

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**Author:** ![KristofMorva](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/kristofmorva/32/1194508_2.png) [@KristofMorva](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/KristofMorva)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-is-slate-ui-eating-17ms-in-a-basically-empty-project/446597/3 "2019-04-04T13:02:52Z")

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That’s probably the Editor, profile with Standalone (or Packaged) as they have their own process.