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Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering

A very common side effect of working as a programmer is the constant frustration of not having source code access to all the software you use. Bugs, problems or missing features in your own work ca…

Although I found a bunch of passionate players describing similar issues, the proposed solutions were standard recommendations like: “Updating the drivers”, “Verifying steam files”, “Disabling VSync”… we all know the list. Even before reading the profiling results, I knew that I found my culprit – the gameplay was suddenly so smooth, that I even set a new track record in my short test. In theory you could dive even deeper at this point, since the plugins themselves are open source – but for me personally being able to play stutter free again is enough, and I still have multiple gold medals to get 🙂

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