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Question about slow editor performance

Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by GerPronouncedGrr, Apr 30, 2021.

  1. GerPronouncedGrr

    GerPronouncedGrr

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    Over the past year, I've noticed that Unity has begun performing worse and worse on my computer. I first noticed the slowdown in 2019.x and it has become worse in 2020.x and 2021.x. I have also noticed, however, that other CPU intensive programs have also begun to run poorly for me in the past year or so. I'm currently still running an AM3+ chip, an FX-8320 3.5GHz to be precise. I don't know much about chipset architecture, but I have heard that modern chipsets are supposed to be an order of magnitude more performant that what I have.

    My question is: has Unity become less performant, or do I really just need a new chipset?
     
  2. I think (as always) the combination of both is true. Unity does more and more stuff over time and your CPU doesn't get younger by the minute. But I would think twice buying anything nowadays.
    Also Unity probably has some bugs to iron out, you probably want to check this thread:
    https://forum.unity.com/threads/lots-of-busy-hold-on-etc.833644/page-8
     
  3. tree_arb

    tree_arb

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    Toggling back to unity in a new empty project after any script change pauses seemingly longer than the past. Unless its my imagination.

    it bothered me enough that I ended up disabling the auto refresh option to avoid this pause, and set it to asset refresh only on play
     
  4. GerPronouncedGrr

    GerPronouncedGrr

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    Yeah, I've seen multiple threads on this issue in the past couple months, seems like a widespread issue. But for some reason Unity engineers "can't replicate it" in house. :rolleyes:
     
  5. Well, they have access to only a limited set of hardware and combination of software setups. And Unity allows infinite ways to set up your project, so it is certainly a possibility that they can't reproduce the problem of the handful of people (out of couple of millions) on the forum...