It takes 60 Seconds to enter play mode

[KarlKarl2000]

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Why does it take so long to enter play mode? Is anyone else having this same problem?

Timer also at TOP RIGHT.

I put another game playing in the foreground, to demonstrate that there is no pausing or lags to my system.

I’m on Unity 2019.3.12f1

[PraetorBlue]

Did you download an asset or extension called “Easy Save”? It looks like that’s taking a long time doing something.

[KarlKarl2000]

Yes, I’ve also asked the developer about that.

[Peter77]

Have you checked with the Profiler already?

Really slow to enter play mode

You can use the Unity Profiler to find out where Unity spends those 30 seconds. I created a video that shows how to use the Profiler to do this. [Unity: How to profile EnterPlaymode] And here it’s as text: Open Window/Profiler Turn on “Record” and “Profile Editor” in Profiler Window Press PLAY to start game Turn off “Record” button when game started and data is sent to Profiler Select slow sample in Profiler in the “CPU Usage” time-line Use the “Overview” list in the Profiler to …

[KarlKarl2000]

@Peter77

Have you checked with the Profiler already?
https://discussions.unity.com/t/663342/3

Thanks for the suggestion.

Yea just did, but there’s some processes I don’t recognize. I need to google what these actually are. I’ve uploaded some screenshots with some of the stronger spikes.

[Peter77]

According to “screenshot 46”, a big chunk of that time is spent in “SpritePacker.RebuildAtlasCache”. I would go to the Editor Settings and set the “Sprite Packer Mode” to “Disable”, just to test if this affects it:

Unity - Manual: Editor

If that setting is what causes the long enter playmode time and if performance with disabled sprite packer is acceptable in the editor, you could change that option to “Enabled for Builds” instead.

[KarlKarl2000]

@Peter77

According to “screenshot 46”, a big chunk of that time is spent in “SpritePacker.RebuildAtlasCache”. I would go to the Editor Settings and set the “Sprite Packer Mode” to “Disable”, just to test if this affects it:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-EditorManager.html

If that setting is what causes the long enter playmode time and if performance with disabled sprite packer is acceptable in the editor, you could change that option to “Enabled for Builds” instead.

That seems to have gotten rid of the SpritePacker hiccup. Good call on disabling that in the editor!

Now I gotta see why I have such a large GC on easy save. I must have coded something wrong…

[Peter77]

@KarlKarl2000

why I have such a large GC on easy save.

This I would ask the Easy Save developer:
https://discussions.unity.com/t/446212

If you’re there, I would also ask why ES spends about 7 seconds when entering playmode and how to reduce it.