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Why is Asset importing slow?
I have some concerns about Asset importing. I'm at the latest Mac mini and on importing Unity's Standard Assets. the statusbar reached about 50% after over 20 minutes. Is that normal? It's mainly PNGs and TGAs the importer takes forever to import. Why is that? In the Activity Monitor the PVRTexTool spikes every now and then to over 300%
Answer by ricky54setiawan · Nov 17, 2015 at 01:12 PM
ahh I think that's normal (even I not understand this PNG and TGA statement) but if you need fast you can use separate unity app (I mean you export the project on 1 different app without scene loading (so the process will faster)) and copy the assest to this folder ( yourgames/assest/(the folder name) in the file explorer so its dont take too long (maybe) you understand what I mean btw even you put the assest without assest importer you can still use that you just need to put it on the assest folder
The project was already basically empty. I did not understand what you meant by scene loading since importing assets does not use any scene loading. I was just importing the standard assets pack and int took me more than 30 $$anonymous$$utes. It felt quite wrong, nothing ever used to take that much time, not even our fully grown project to import the first time when cloned from git.
Answer by MCoburn · Nov 18, 2015 at 11:23 AM
Hmm...
Try closing everything not in use and try importing the stuff again. Maybe something's fighting Unity's processes. Also consider running Disk Utility for a HDD check, you might have something wrong with the file system causing this behavior.
What version of Unity are you using? Are you able to test using the latest version by any chance?
Hi $$anonymous$$Coburn,
it is 5.2.2f4 and running latest $$anonymous$$AC OS El Capitan I tried that again on an empty project and it took a couple of $$anonymous$$utes. Very strange...
If I was to hazard a guess, it was $$anonymous$$ac being $$anonymous$$ac... It's not the best when it comes to development, but it works.
$$anonymous$$eep an eye on it, and if it gets ridiculous then file a bug report. One other thing I can think of is that the $$anonymous$$ac $$anonymous$$ini could be overheating and thermal throttling (which happens), can you get some temperature monitoring tool for OS X and see what it's running at? If it's above 70 degrees Celsius then the CPU fan should be kicking in and trying to cool the processor. If it gets too hot, the CPU will throttle itself until it can cool itself down and resume processing at normal speed.
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