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Fixed in 4.3.4
Votes
241
Found in
4.2.2f1
Issue ID
571984
Regression
No
Maverick and Unity performance issues
On some Mac's with OS X 10.9 Unity performance is very bad, including stuttering, editor freezes, editor lags and similar.
We found that there seems to be a leak in Maverick's OpenGL ARB VBO implementation.
Our text rendering creates and destroys a lot of VBO's so it is most likely that this happened after around 10 minutes of working with Unity and the inspector or other text heavy components in unity uploading a lot of geometry.
Terrains will be especially affected, but of course just loading a scene / unloading a scene will load / unload VBO's for all the meshes too.
This issue has been fixed with a workaround in 4.3.4. We are working with Apple to get a proper fix done, at which point we will be able to remove the workaround.
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CiroContns
Dec 01, 2013 00:50
@SONI991: I had the same issue as you, but didn't notice these constant errors in the console. By looking into what you described, I was able to fix 50% of the Unity slowdowns here on Mavericks... thanks, thanks, thanks! Now at least I can work.
mindlube
Nov 30, 2013 05:39
Unity editor is horribly slow on mavericks.
mindlube
Nov 30, 2013 05:37
Unity editor is horribly slow on mavericks.
Aizee421
Nov 28, 2013 23:27
Short Freezes for 2-15 seconds every minute or so on a mid 2010 MacBook Pro.
Mavericks
Unity 4.3
NagualSounds
Nov 28, 2013 12:56
we can't work since we updated to mavericks...please unity fix this asap!
thanks in advance
DarJam
Nov 26, 2013 22:35
It's horrendous. Unacceptable regular system freezes on 4.2 and 4.3. My Mondodevelop autocomplete doesn't work, if i query a variable in debug mode Unity crashes. What the hell is going on ? It's a steaming POS. Unity is not working with Maverick. I am very unhappy at this fiasco.
soni991
Nov 23, 2013 18:52
Hi Guys, Looks like i found the solution for the problem of Jagged performance on Maverick and unity. It fixed mine hope it do same for you guys too. First i opened my console on maverick and found there was regular SMC error going on I googled it and found it was related to fan control application i installed on my iMac. i used terminal to kill the PID number of the FanControlDeamon and once my console stopped showing the error which was 2-3 times every second stopped all together . then i tried my Unity again and played Angrybot game for while and found there wasn't anymore lagging going on. I would give try using more and more and see if my belief is true or not !! as of now it is working like charm.
CiroContns
Nov 22, 2013 19:57
I get freezes all the time, both in 4.2 and 4.3, since I upgraded to Mavericks.
zbyhoo
Nov 22, 2013 15:25
In editor after some time with modifying game objects and later in play mode I have about 2-3 fps. It's so slow on my MacBook Pro Mid 2009 with Mavericks that I don't want to work with Unity any more, at least till fix. Upgrade to 4.3.0f4 did not helped at all.
JoeVoxel
Nov 22, 2013 10:51
impossible to work in this condition.