Why is everyones Unity Crashing all the time since November 2014?

What happened with unity from November 2014?

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If we know, maybe we can go back to some stable version or something till this is fixed.

Unity is crashing some 5-10 times pr day ATM - for everyone in our office! Both Mac and PC, different projects.

 

Around that time Unity 5 pre-order beta became available. I guess the graph is more related to that than other factors.

 

Is it crashing or hanging up?

It's completely freezing for me, and I've found that it is a memory leak issue.

When you start Unity, pull up your Task Manager and note how much memory Unity.exe is using. Start your game, and note how much it is using once your game has fully started. Stop Play Mode by pressing the Play button at the top again, and note how much memory it is using now. If it's at or near the original memory it was using before your game started, then it is not a memory leak. If the memory is significantly higher, then you may also have a memory leak. I'm thinking that this is a Unity error and not a developer error, but I've had no one else confirm a memory leak on their builds, so I don't know.

 

We see all sorts of freezing, dying and stopping! And on all machines (not just Windows)..

 

Mine won't crash to the desktop, but it is ALWAYS freezing after the first or second play. I'm thinking you may have a memory leak as well. Do what I told you to do with the Task Manager and post your results here.

For example, here are my results from a recent play test:

Unity hasn't entered Play Mode yet: 145,000K

Unity Play mode enabled: 420,000K

Unity stopped Play Mode: 300,000K

Unity trying to enter playmode again: 300,000K, Freezes indefinitely.

Also, how big are the projects that are crashing? Can you think of any similarities between all of the projects that are crashing? Do you use any plugins?