Loading Unity takes quite some time....

Unity Engine
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Hi, I purchased a new laptop recently and found that it struggles to load Unity for some reason. I know (or at least I assume) it’s good enough to run it; i7 740QM, GTX460M 1.5gig and 6gig or RAM. Not sure if it’s a known problem with the Medion brand or if it’s something else? It ran fine on my Acer which was of lower spec (not by much mind).

It takes a good hour or so (sometimes more) to load Unity up and this is quite concerning for me as I have a game to be made for a University project by Easter. So, if anyone knows anything that can help me then by all means fire away =).

Thanks,

Cas

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HOUR?!? is that just to start unity? or is it a BIG project? is it just unity?

you mention “laptop” so I’d check power management options, probably running in low power mode?

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That’s just to start it, no projects. Once it’s running there no evidence that it took so long to load and I can work in it comfortably. No other programs take that long to load, all the other developing environments I have work right away.

My laptop is always set to high performance, no matter if it’s on battery or plugged in, also, I have been to the power management settings and I made sure there was nothing there that could hinder it loading.

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It loads in a snap on my MacBook, and it’s 3 years old. 5 seconds while loading my largest project (and incidentally checking the web for an update, as I usually work on my desktop…)

Houston…

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It loaded right away on my desktop and my old laptop and this new laptop is better spec wise so it shouldn’t have a problem.

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Unity loads much slower in Windows than in Mac OSX…

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Have you tried turning off your virus scanner? I’ve tried 3 different virus scanners over the past month and a half and each one resulted in a different set of issues (on a 2 month old Toshiba i5 notebook). Try turning off your virus scanner and see if that makes any difference. If it does, use a different one. I’m now using Panda Cloud which has resulted in the fewest issues so far.

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Thats extremely odd.

1 reason is it only uses 1 cpu… Unless thats only when the game is developed.

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Well, bigkahuna was right. It was my anti virus; I was using Bullguard, but as soon as I uninstalled that and put Avast on it loaded in about 10secs :smile:

I’ve never had that issue before so I always think that people just say it, now I know different.

Thanks to everyone for the help.

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Let us know how Avast works for you. So far the only issue I’ve run into with Panda Cloud is that Unity will intermittently give me an error when I try to launch it. It’s not a big deal, I just have to launch Unity a second time when it happens, but it would be nice to not have any issues at all.

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Glad to hear you found out what the problem was. I’m still shocked you had the patience to wait an hour! :smile:

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killer1390, unity allways uses 1 cpu, because its x86 program.

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A little off topic, but…

Actually, Unity only uses a single core for everything except Beast. If you use Beast it will use all the cores your computer has.

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lol, forgot to mention that. In fact, I was waiting for Beast to do its thing 1 time, and dared to try a flash video… LOL. Next time I will set beasts affinity to 5 out of 6 CPUs.

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I have no problems with avast at all, and it’s a very good free anti virus too =D. Set it to game mode and it does everything you want without scaring you half to death if something goes wrong.

May i ask what this “beast” is though?

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The lightmapping for Unity3D… Also used in other game engines.