Unity suddenly sluggish on MacBook Pro (2010)

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I have a bad feeling my Mac is on it’s way out - but before I panic buy a new one has anyone had any issues recently with Unity and their MacBook Pro?

It’s running okay when I set the video card to the Intel Integrated but running on the Nvidia it is immediately unresponsive (even on an empty scene) and I have to force quit the app.

Just wondering if it’s something to do with a system update/unity update or my ageing Mac didn’t like the journey from Singapore to London :frowning:

BTW - so far everything else seems fine and games built in Unity run fine.

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There have been some complaints of speed with Unity 4.1 and the latest firmware update. I’m hesitant to update since I read this thread:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/174671-Unity-constantly-freezes-since-the-update-to-4-1

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Yes, there are some profiler related issues to certain graphic cards on osx:

-NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.4GHz and 2.53GHz configurations; or 512MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.66GHz configuration

  • Intel HD Graphics with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory5

We’ve sent a ticket to apple to please fix the issue but when or if this will happen we cannot say.

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Following the thread from Jaimi it made me realise it wasn’t my Mac :slight_smile: I deleted all the unity files in the library/preferences and deleted unity and installed again. It fixed the issues I was having and things seem okay at the moment. Will report in if things deteriorate.

Thanks for the help!

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Thanks - looks like that won’t affect me then, I’ll download and install the update (If my OCZ vector ever comes back to life, that is)

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I’ve recently learned that another user had the profiler issue with the following graphic card as well: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT