Profiling with Pirates: Performance Plundered from a Real Game | Unreal Fest Chicago 2026

Watch this session recorded at Unreal Fest Chicago 2026 and discover how Epic Games’ Technical Developer Relations crew hunts down frametime treasures.

Climb aboard as Ari and Matt crack open a real-world pirate game (shared by its fearless developers) and chart a course through their optimization workflows.

They hoist the profiler, scour the CPU and GPU for hidden bottlenecks, and plunder the juiciest performance wins.

From indie deckhands to AAA captains, you’ll come away with battle-tested profiling tactics, practical optimization loot, and a sharper instinct for spotting trouble before it sends your framerate to Davy Jones’ locker.

Find out more about game development in Unreal Engine here: unrealengine.com/uses/games

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