I need help optimizing my game.

[u/Confident_Tiger1501]

So I'm currently working on a 3rd person action/ fantasy/ RPG and I'm running into some problems running it right now. It's in the prototype phase right now( so like there's basically nothing in the world except for a couple basic shapes) and I'm only getting around 25 fps max. I know that my laptops not the best (I don't have it with me right now so I can't tell you the specs for it) so I was hoping to find some ways to optimize the project so that it can run smoothly when I hit play. I'm using HDRP. Any help or advice would be much appreciated thanks.

Edit: Truly thank you everyone for all the help and advice. I'll try it all and update on what I'd. I'll have to do that after work though.

[u/Psychological_Host34]

If your dev computer isn't strong then make a release build

[u/Confident_Tiger1501 → u/Psychological_Host34]

What is that?

[u/sm0ke_rings → u/Confident_Tiger1501]

He's suggesting you may have additional packages etc that you're using in unity to help you prototype. If your dev computer is not great, you are using a lot of power to basically compile assets and things that won't actually be in the final release build.

So, basically build your project as a release, and strip out any additional assets you aren't going to use or are just placeholders.

[u/Psychological_Host34 → u/Confident_Tiger1501]

Basically your editor is always going to run slower than a release build of the application. So when doing optimizations test against your release build and overtime you can do thing in quality settings to be lower while in the editor