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vikingsteve
vikingsteve

Reputation: 40388

Unity 3d crashing on mac when I press "play" in the editor

I downloaded Unity 3d on my macbook air and created a new project with a single 3d object (a plane).

When I press the "play" button (Triangle icon), unity hangs and crashes.

It happens no matter if I create a new project again and add a different 3d object (a sphere).

The only way my project doesnt crash when I press play is if it's a completely blank project with no 3d objects.

Interestingly I can build a mac build of a project and it runs okay (I can see the 3d objects, the plane or the sphere).

Can anyone offer any advice?

Edit: OS / X version 10.9

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3186

Answers (2)

Tai Ho
Tai Ho

Reputation: 576

Ok, i think i solved it. My project settings had metal editor support disabled. Enabling this option solved the crashing problem. I reproduced this issue with a freshly created project and just disabled the Metal editor support. I tried on a macbook pro 2018 (with dedicated graphics card) and could not reproduce the issue. This could be an Intel graphics driver related problem.

Upvotes: 0

vikingsteve
vikingsteve

Reputation: 40388

My version of OS/X was a little outdated.

Upgrading from 10.9 to 10.12.X fixed the problem (after a 4 GB download and 60 minute install)

Upvotes: 0

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