High CPU usage in bufferSubData on Safari (v5.32.1)

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Hi guys,

Suddenly I’m getting really slow frame rates on mobile (iPhone XS, iOS 16.1). Most of the time is spent in bufferSubData in engine.uniformBuffer, and engine.dynamicBuffer.

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It’s a simple scene, all materials are standard, and everything is very low-poly. Runs without breaking a sweat on Chrome, but very slow on Safari - can’t hit 60 fps even on MacBook Pro, and single digits on iPhone.

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I swear this used to hit 60 fps on the phone… Maybe a recent change in the engine?

UPDATE: After setting engine.disableUniformBuffers, Safari performance is fine, even on a phone.

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Can you try to turn off webgl2 maybe?

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I am wondering if they suffer from the Same than Chrome on MacOS as they now use a angle backend… @Deltakosh do you want me to flag Safari to disable UBO as well ? I thought this would be fixed when angle would turn the metal backend on ?

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If this is the cause: OH YEAH!

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@alekop can you share a repro ? so that I can validate my fix ?

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I didn’t turn off WebGL2, but disabling UBO on Safari solved the issue.

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I can’t find a PG that shows this issue. What’s the fix? If it’s turning off UBO on Safari, I’m already doing that, so it should be fine.

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Could you share your experience or something I could use to validate the fix ? as currently I am not able to repro and I do not want to turn it fully off for everyone if it is not faster in the majority of cases.