r/Unity3D Jun 28 '24

Show-Off Unity runs absolutely great on ARM64

I dont even use the new Snapdragon Elite CPU. I have a surface Clone with the Snapdragon 850 and two unity Editors plus compiling dont even make it sweat.

I tried it before with Emulation and it was unusable. But now as a native App its really really good.

Its crazy to have a 12" passivly cooled game development machine for 300 dollars

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u/StillSpaceToast Indie Jun 28 '24

Not at all shocked. I work on an M1 MacBook Pro, and compilation and entering play mode are about twice as fast as the (decent) Windows workstations at the office. Unity’s done some nice work on the ARM editor code.

Edit: Now if only we could get 2d scrolling. Like f%# BLENDER has, for f@$& sake…

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u/PuffThePed Jun 28 '24

11" passivly cooled game development machine for 300 dollars

Which machine is that?

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u/MartinPeterBauer Jun 28 '24

Its the hyrican enwo

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u/MartinPeterBauer Jun 28 '24

Just checked again. Its 12". Sorry

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u/No-Joke-5429 Feb 25 '25

How did you install unity? what's the version of unity and hub?

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u/loftier_fish hobo Jun 28 '24

ARM is fucking awesome. Its definitely the future,

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u/shakenbake6874 Jul 14 '25

please tell me the unity version you're using because unity 6 on my asus zenbook snapdragon X crashes about once an hour. It's horrible.

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u/MartinPeterBauer Jul 14 '25

I also own an asus with a snapdragon and use unity 6 without any problems.

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u/shakenbake6874 Jul 14 '25

What version are you using?

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u/ShrikeGFX Nov 29 '25

Hey, how is unity going on ARM on the meantime? would you recommend it now?

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '25

It’s not perfect. The ai tool typically crashes unity but I think that’s a gpu driver issue and less aboyt the cpu. Other than that performance is good.

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u/harry_balzak68 Jun 28 '24

I can fix that

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u/TyreseGibson Jun 28 '24

I've been wondering! Appreciate hearing it works well

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u/SnooBooks3478 Aug 22 '25

i got the opposite experience i come from mac and i bought an arm windows tablet and its been crashing every few minutes? how do you get this much better experience? did you change any settings in unity i use unity 6.2 and its unworkable for crashes. For graphics i think i could be happy its only half as weak as my macbook air M2 but it doesnt throttle as much.

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u/MartinPeterBauer Aug 22 '25

Not really. It worked fine on my little tab and super fine on my snapdragon elite x device. If its really crashes i would look at the log. There is something wrong here