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Question by Mochna · Jun 04, 2020 at 07:09 PM · editorfpsperformancedecrease

FPS decreases over time in editor (Potential memory leak?)

Ever since updating to the newest version of Unity, I've encountered a problem of some (not all) of my projects, even ones made since updating; my FPS in the editor starts at about 300 FPS; it then decreases (usually within 5-10 minutes of opening the editor) more and more, until the program inevitably crashes. I made a new project, with the only asset being the Invector Third Person Controller, yet it still happens; I'm guessing the problem is some kind of memory leak, but I cannot pinpoint the problem.

Any help would be appreciated; thanks!

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avatar image andrew-lukasik · Jun 04, 2020 at 07:25 PM 0
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How much RA$$anonymous$$ do you have? What specific Unity version we're talking about? Hopefully not alpha, because "alpha" is greek for "this program will crash asap"

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8 Gigabytes of Ram, 2019.3.11f1. Right now my RA$$anonymous$$ checker thing says I have 2.54 gigs available (that may be causing the problem), I'm not sure though.

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Take a look at your system process diagnostics info (task manager/processes on windows) and find Unity Editor there. If there is no suspiciously high memory consumption then it's probably something other than memory related

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Answer by andrew-lukasik · Jun 04, 2020 at 08:03 PM

Open up Profiler window and switch Playmode to monitoring Editor itself. There is all the data you need to diagnose the issue (memory allocations included)

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I did that; it showed a ton of the "Others" category, what could that mean?

Btw I checked the memory usage, it seemed fairly normal (400-500 $$anonymous$$B used by the app).

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If Unity Editor uses 500$$anonymous$$B at the moment when it crashes then it not a memory leak issue but something different. First things first, I recommend updating to 2019.3.15f1 (just to be sure it's not a bug fixed already)

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Ok, I will update.

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Answer by Mochna · Jun 11, 2020 at 06:14 PM

It seems as though updating to 2019.3.15f1 fixed the issue.

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