I just noticed when I go to the Unity preference window, it takes up to 5 minutes for it to appear. And it does it consistently regardless if my project is completely empty, or if I reboot the system. I don’t recall loading editor preference being this slow before… does anyone have similar experience?
The preferences window opened almost instantly for me.
I tested on a Windows 7 64x machine.
What version of Unity are you using?
Thanks,
Chris
Unity 3.5.7 Pro + iOS Pro. On OSX 10.6.8.
Machine Spec : Macbook Pro Mid 2010 - Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz, 4GB Ram.
Always appears instantly here with those versions of Unity and OS X.
–Eric
Hmmm, very odd. Are you by any chance using the free Sophos Anti-virus? Because I can’t think of any other reason why mine is loading soooooooooo slowly. I even turned off the Editor Analytics and it is still slow.
No, I don’t use malware…
–Eric
Antivirus are a pretty annoying problem on OSX.
I’ve used sophos and a host of others and currently have ESET present and I can say from 2+ years of experience with them that the average file access performance drops by 90% and worse. Whenever I need my disk performance I disable them.
5 minutes sounds hefty for just this though, never seen it getting that worse.
But I definitely saw Unity iOS texture compression taking 20-50 times as long and the general performance dropping considerably too especially under sophos which acted against OSX desired behaviors it seemed.
Okay, I turned off Sophos and tried opening the preference window again… NO CHANGE.
It still takes 5 MINUTES to open up preference window. While its opening up the Spinning Beach Ball of Doom 
just keep spinning for 5 minutes until Unity finally decides to bring up the window. I check the CPU usage in Activity Monitor and while the preference window is opening up - Unity’s CPU usage went through the roof ! Literally! It consistently clocks at over 106% of CPU usuage (how can it go over 100% !?!!).