I have been having a horrible Unity error for at least a month now and it seems kind of random. I wanted to post here and see if anyone else has seen this.
When I import a large package into my project, at the apex of the procedure, it fails the import and instead opens up AS MANY PROGRAMS AS POSSIBLE in Windows. ATI Windows, Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, Chrome, SVN, Unity windows and maybe some others - and usually it seems like it also opens the max amount of windows for that program. I just powered off again when it happened last and didn’t manage to get a screen shot (it freaks me out because SVN starts uploading stuff, my PC freezes so I hit reset). Sometimes it doesn’t happen, often it does. I have ran my virus scanner a couple times and nothing seems to be wrong. I also disabled my virus prot the last time I tried this and it also didn’t fix it.
I am running Unity Pro 4.1.2 on Windows 8 64bit. Has anyone else ever seen this issue before?
I’ve had this problem as well, expect mine is able to survive it and not crash right away, its actually going on right now. I’m searching for a cause so i’ll let you know if i find anything.
The package I used comes from a private developer. Not bought on the asset store but not torrented either. It also happens sometimes with another developers packages that is very active here (Zerano) as well and that is a clean, paid for package. Very bizzarro.
This is happening again to me on the most recent build for an asset I am using. I have heard from other people that Unity gets wonky with large packages approaching the GIG size. This is driving me nutz, production screams to a halt every time this happens until we can find a workaround. Very frustrating, Unity guys get this fixed please, this is embarrassing that your program does this.
Lately, I’ve been having this problem as well. Create new project. Import a large package and unity will lock up. Sometimes it imports, other times it opens tons of programs. I even just updated unity and it’s still doing it. Anyone have any ideas as to what’s going on?
I know this thread is a couple of months old but was wondering if anyone found a resolution to this. I am seeing it as well when I import huge packages…
Same here, but not only packages… I downloaded some free rocks from asset store, and did the exact thing. Its kind of random, couse some assets and packages doesnt opens windows…
Downgrade your OS to Windows XP or import the package into Unity 3, after decompressing the package, while importing the package, quickly use ctrl+alt+del to close Unity 3. Copy package files in unity 3 project and paste it into Unity 4 project
Yeah I’ve had this error for the last several versions of Unity. I think it’s buggy code in Unity when it attempts to pop up the modal dialog window that asks you to check which assets you want to import. For some reason, if Unity doesn’t have focus when it tries to pop up that window, it sometimes instead opens a window for every single currently running process, even the ones that are set to always hidden by Windows. Maybe it does it out of spite for not paying enough attention to it?
I’ve had this problem for years now. I figured: “Hey, maybe they fixed it in Unity 5!” then when importing the new Standard Assets It decided to randomly open a black window on my anti-virus, like 10 steam windows, uninstall a game from steam (what?), open Maya, open two floating start menus (using start menu X) as well as make a number of impossible to remove windows appear and weird outlines. I mean I guess that’s WAY better than what it did in Unity 4 though.
All in all though I’d say that glitch was a 10/10, would import standard assets again. Now I have to restart my PC as there doesn’t seem to be any way to remove these boxes in task manager.
Hey, I’ve never had this problem before upgrading to Unity 5. It never happened me in Unity 4 and now I can’t import any big asset packages, has anyone found the solution for this? Thanks
Just downloaded Unity 5 on a freshly reinstalled windows 7 computer. When trying to import / decompress the assets I’ve purchased from the store it just opens a whole bunch of seemingly random programs… I tried twice to import the assets into a fresh project, but no luck.
I’ve imported other free assets (rocks, etc…) just fine, but this one asset package wont work, which is quite annoying as it messes up my computer and also I can’t use the assets that I paid for
Did any of you guys who had this problem figure out how to fix it?
This has happened to me on my laptop, home PC, and work PC. Some packages (400mb+) are impossible to open.
I wouldn’t even think something like this was possible, but Unity manages to open everything on my computer every big package I import, any PC I’m on, since Unity4.
This is a huge issue, I managed to take a screenshot of my computer when it happened again with a different package from the asset store. http://puu.sh/hFThN.jpg
I’ve been having this problem for some time, and only just found this conversation. The programs opened up aren’t actually random, they seem to be mainly background running programs and services. No idea why it happens though, if anyone finds out how to stop it, please tell us.