I am using Unity on a 2011 Macbook Pro…and it is not good.
I have bought some assets that bring Unity to around 5fps.
I am thinking about buying a PC and wonder what a good setup could be, that is reasonably priced but also give me the visual horsepower and FPS.
Thanks
One that works.
Wow thanks for the incredible insight. Deep. You are from the prairies…
A 2011 macbook pro should be a decent unity box (quad core i7 with a Radeon 6750) . Are you running it on the integrated Intel chip or something? Anything that will take it to it’s knees will perform poorly on the majority of users systems.
Anyway, if you’re just interested in massive framerate, and not interested in who else could play your game, then any generic PC box, with a GTX 760 or above should be both cheap and usable.
But, fwiw, you can’t just buy a bunch of assets and put them all in to a scene. Game making is all about compromises.
Thanks for the great info. I hear ya. Just trying to get something that runs with a better GPU.
BTW you have some great shaders!!!
Here is a screencap of my config. And it is older than I thought…
No problem! Don’t hate on the Prairies. 
EDIT: Wow, GT 330m isn’t very good. And 17" lol. I’d suggest selling your huge laptop and getting an imac or something.
Thanks! Also, I agree the 2010 model is a little too old for PC development now (about half the speed of the 2011). I’d recommend getting at least 16gb RAM and a quad core i7. If you can spare the extra cash, then an SSD boot drive is great also. But stay away from OCZ, I’ve had nothing but trouble with the OCZ Vector (though it’s supposedly fixed).
I have been looking at these:
That would work, but the components on that list are all the older models. i’d recommend to go with the middle one, but get the current years graphics, cpu, etc.
The GT330 is what’s killing it.
My desktop is a Core 2 Duo 3.0GHz, with 8GB DDR2-1000, GeForce 550Ti, and a Kingston 128GB SSD. It ran Unity just fine. In fact it’s pretty fast.
My laptop is an Asus G75VX. Intel i7-Q3630QM, 12GB DDR3, GeForce 670MX. Only thing that makes it slow is I didn’t order the SSD.
So… get something with a better video card.
http://unity3d.com/unity/system-requirements
anything above that will run unity. depends on what you’re trying to push. get the nicest video card you can afford lol
Mac book pro’s are nice if you want ios and a mobile development platform.
This. Especially with pre-built computers/laptops. Get a good graphics card and everything else will follow suit.
Good site for laptops: http://www.notebookcheck.net/
I don’t think Unity can use more than ~3 GB. (as it’s not 64-bit). Still, 16GB seems like massive overkill to me, even ignoring that aspect.
I have a PC i’m building soon, if your able to build one I would highly suggest it, just upgrade the parts you want.
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/chrisall76/saved/1ZSp
The editor itself cannot use more than 4GB of RAM. Beast (the light mapper in unity) is a separate 64 bit process, and can use all that RAM. In addition, the OS and it’s caches, and all the other apps you run are using RAM as well. I have 16GB in my machine, and I am running unity and my browser right now. I have 6GB of free memory.
When I run Blender, Unity, Photoshop, Chrome and all my side apps(dropbox, puush, skype) I have around 6-10gb free.
I’m considering this setup myself: http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GE40-2OC-Dragon-Eyes.html#overview
Thanks a lot guys for all of the info. Much appreciated.
Am looking at the kakewalk setup, so I can run dual boot. I use Logic Pro X and some other OSX based apps.
I can do that no problem with a mere 4 GB total.
Specs are:
Windows 7,
2.4 ghz i3 370m,
ATI 5650m [Read: Underclocked desktop 5570]).
7 GB of memory usage from a browser seems like an awful lot.
Wouldn’t it depend on the game your are making?