Optimizing Performance for Weaker Macs

Unity Engine
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Hello everyone. I’m using an old iMac G4 and Unity Editor seems slow on it. I noticed the following:

  1. The game view as well as the scene view display very high detail
  2. The whole window is much bigger than my monitor.

my question:

  1. is there a way to lessen the detail/resolution to increase the speed of the editor for older macs?
  2. Is there a way to “shrink” the Unity window? I mean, the fit to screen and manuall window resize seem disabled.

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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Depending on how old your iMac is, it may be plain slow. The “lamp” style G4s only have Radeon 9200 graphics, and they are pretty limited by modern standards.

  1. Make sure you have selected “Fastest” as the quality level for the IDE.
    Unity - Manual: Quality Then make sure you reduce the settings in the Fastest level to absolute minimum – 1 bone animation, 1/8 textures, etc.

  2. Try deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.unity3d.UnityEditor.plist and relaunch Unity. Or, drag the window so you can the the lower right corner and manually resize it that way.

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Thanks a lot sir, I’ll that now :slight_smile:

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Hello again everyone. I’m sorry but I can’t seem to find ~/Library/Preferences/com.unity3d.UnityEditor.plist in the directory where I installed Unity. Is it some sort of hidden file. (sorry Windows user here :frowning: )

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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Edit > Follow DocSwabs directions, but start at your hard drive, not the Unity app. If you cant find it there…

Terminal is in your Applications>Utilities folder. Have a read of this:

http://www.osxfaq.com/DailyTips/02-2005/02-01.ws

Also (try this first) click the blue apple at top left of your screen, and go to system preferences >Display and try different resolutions.
Its possible its set to something like 800x600. You want 1024x768 or higher.

AC

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Thanks a lot guys. I’ll try again :slight_smile:

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Your Hard Drive/Users/Your User/Library/Preferences

~ is shorthand for your user folder