UE5 Optick Plugin
Optick provides seamless integration with Unreal Engine. Specifically designed plugin hooks into UE5 integrated profiling system and automatically collects all the events wrapped with QUICK_SCOPE_CYCLE_COUNTER macro. This plugin also includes all tools and features coming with Optick:
- Thread Timeline View
- Sampling
- Switch-contexts
- CPU Cores
- GPU Counters
- Syscalls
- Screenshots
You could install the latest version of the plugin here through UE5 Marketplace: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/optick-super-lightweight-performance-profiler
- Launch UnrealEditor.exe
⚠️ Optick uses ETW to collect kernel-level events (Sampling, Switch-contexts, CPU cores) which require Admin Privileges to run. If you need kernel events - you'll need to run UnrealEngine.exe(or VisualStudio) as administrator.
- Enable OptickPlugin: Edit => Plugins => Performance => Optick
- Open Optick GUI: Tools => Open Optick Profiler
- Press "Start/Stop Profiling Session" button to start and stop the profiling session
- Basic GUI Navigation
