Intermittent hard lag in editor, visuals frozen more than unfrozen in play mode though sounds play normally, FPS reads 800, working fine til yesterday

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Hi I’m having an issue and googling the issue hasn’t helped. Yesterday I installed some assets, had some crashes, started getting a message that there was a memory leak and I needed to run the editor with a command line argument (which I did), deleted the assets that I suspected were the issue and I stopped getting errors. I then restarted without the command line argument for tracing leaks but now I’m starting to think there still is one.

I’m on an Apple M3 Pro with 18GB RAM on Sonoma 14, Unity version 2022.3.32f1 but I created a new project with the latest version of unity and it’s doing the same thing, though not as bad.

I don’t think it’s a specs thing because it’s been running great on my machine since I started using unity about 3 weeks ago. I also don’t see how it could be an asset because I’m still getting spikes on a new project. I really have no idea where to go from here.

Thanks for any help, I just want to keep building this game!

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While poking around I randomly hit Play while the unity editor was on my main (built-in) display and it was working normally.

So I think I found the issue but not the cause and it didn’t have anything to do with the assets or command line flags; at some point yesterday I changed the way my Mac was handling multiple displays because the Dock popping up at the bottom of the Unity editor was starting to chafe me; The action was System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Displays have separate Spaces > (OFF)

I don’t know why this would make such a difference, but I can literally drag the editor window playing normally on to the other screen and visuals will completely freeze.