Discussion Unity lagging and using too much computer memory

Hi, I'm very new to Unity and was excited to learn. I've been following a tutorial and I barely started, but the editor keeps lagging and I have no idea why. I checked the task manager and it looks like Unity is using up so much memory!


It's very frustrating to try and learn like this any help will be appreciated!

 

Well, what hardware specs do you have?

Judging by your screenshot your computer only has 8GB or memory, which isn't much.

Unity's a pretty heavy weight program, so you need a reasonably specced PC to use it comfortably.

 

I think this is what you're asking, but I have a good computer. I restarted my computer yesterday and unity seemed to work after that. However, I can't seem to have more than unity opened or else it starts lagging!

 

Those specs look pretty reasonable to me. I'm assuming you have a decent GPU too?

Mind you how much memory an application uses doesn't have a big impact on its performance.