CRYENGINE vs Optick

CRYENGINE is a game engine for building projects targeting PC, consoles, mobile, web and VR. Its offering includes full source code, engine features and access to supported platforms. Developers can use C++, Lua or Schematyc visual scripting, along with multiplayer tools and mobile export. The Sandbox Editor creates worlds without baking and exports them as they appear in the editor. Rendering includes dynamic global illumination and a physically based rendering workflow; physics simulations account for physical properties. The engine also includes particle tools, animation systems and a physics solution for dynamic destruction. CRYENGINE can be used for free under royalty-based licensing: a 5% royalty applies when a project ships, while the first $5K in annual revenue per project is royalty-free. Documentation includes guides and tutorials, and community channels include Discord and GitHub. The maker was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.

Optick is a free C++ profiler for game performance analysis and optimization. Its tools include instrumentation, context-switch tracing, sampling, CPU profiling, frame-time analysis and GPU counters. Developers can integrate it with OPTICK_FRAME, OPTICK_EVENT and OPTICK_THREAD macros. Context tracing uses ETW on Windows, FTrace on Linux and DTrace on macOS; GPU profiling supports D3D12 and Vulkan on Windows, and Vulkan on Linux and macOS. Desktop build configurations are listed for Windows x64, Linux x64 and macOS x64. Optick also offers Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5 plugins; its v1.4.0 release added Unreal Engine 5.0 support, and Android support in the core appears in v1.3.0 release notes. The configuration header can enable or disable features for particular platforms or builds, including disabling Optick in final builds. With multiple DLLs in one executable, Optick must be added to a shared dynamic library compiled with OPTICK_EXPORT; static linking will not work. The MIT license permits use, copying, modification, publication and distribution, and provides the software without warranty.