# bombomby/optick

C++ Profiler For Games

Repository: https://github.com/bombomby/optick
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/optick
Homepage: https://optick.dev
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: c-plus-plus, profiler, games, performance
Last push: 2024-05-25T15:51:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4246, "days_push": 830, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3161, forks 310 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:46.570687+00:00)

## What it is
Optick is a lightweight C++ profiler designed for games, offering instrumentation, context-switch tracking, sampling, and GPU counters. It integrates with engines like Unreal Engine 4 and is used by studios such as 4A Games and Larian Studios.

## Use cases
- profile cpu performance of a c++ game
- instrument game engine code for frame timing
- capture gpu counters with vulkan or d3d12
- profile an unreal engine 4 project
- analyze thread context switches on windows or linux

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight in-game profiler for C++ or UE4
- you want combined CPU instrumentation, sampling, and GPU counters
- you target Windows, Linux, or macOS game development

## When to avoid
- you need profiling for non-game applications with rich ecosystem support
- you require console (PS4/Xbox) profiling without certified developer access
- you want a maintained general-purpose profiler like Tracy with active development

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, tracing, benchmarking, developer-tools
- domain: performance, developer-tools, graphics
- platform: windows, cpp, cross-platform
- tags: profiler, instrumentation, gpu-profiling, sampling, unreal-engine, game-performance, game-development, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- bombomby/optick (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:46.570687+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:25:13.911091+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bombomby/optick (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:46.570687+00:00, sha 4b073cde0c77)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.