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Question by oPhoenixo · Mar 26, 2012 at 05:49 AM · editorinspectorchoppy

choppy editor with inspector visible

I get really strange choppy editor experience when testing the game, and a little bit in general. While I realise that running the game in editor is going to be worse than standalone, my machine isn't a slouch and it has a definite pattern to it- If I'm inspecting an item that is actively moving/etc it will be choppy in a weird fashion. It's like it's running at '60frames in one second, but followed by a quarter second of no frame.' So it will move smoothly and then stop.

It's definitely editor+(hardware specific?) related, like if something is being inspected or if items are being created or destroyed (hierarchy).

For what it's worth my machine is a - Phenom || six core 1100t black edition. 8gb Geforce GT440 1gb factory overclocked. It is a 64bit version of windows 7 home. Not going to win any 'legendary' awards but definitely not slow. One reason I think the machine IS important is my wife's rig (which is a mirror) has a similar issue. Any help?

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avatar image syclamoth · Mar 26, 2012 at 06:26 AM 0
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I've had similar issues, actually- I'm still tracking them down though. It's definitely something that can happen.

avatar image oPhoenixo · Mar 26, 2012 at 11:31 PM 0
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Well hell, am I one of few? I'm going to go on a 'process killing spree and see if that fixes it.

avatar image rutter · Mar 27, 2012 at 12:15 AM 0
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You might check if it matters which object(s) you're inspecting? It could be that there's a particular component inspector in the mix that's causing the slowdown -- could be requiring a lot of CPU power, or taking enough memory to force swapping, or perfor$$anonymous$$g some blocking operation on the main thread.

Various bits of the editor can cause slowdowns. I don't think I've seen anything quite like what you're mentioning on a regular basis, yet, though.

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I experience a similar pattern too. I haven't been able to pinpoint the source but restarting Unity usually solves the problem for a while. I suspect its memory-related but what do I know?

avatar image IndieScapeGames · Mar 27, 2012 at 12:34 AM 0
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You're not using a while() statement are you? I find these really drag down performance.

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Answer by oPhoenixo · Apr 05, 2012 at 03:09 AM

It's fixed and I have no real idea why. Thanks all that responded. I have an auto notifier for driver updates from the motherboard, so that's possibly it. I also took a look at the app settings in Nvidia's control panel and changed the multi-display mixed gpu setting for unity. I thought that was it but even when I changed it back it still works fine. Even so maybe it was 'woke' somehow that way.

Again, thanks all that responded.

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