I need an opinion for using unity, (help)

[DeoNaught]

I Used unity a little bit ago, and it was resource heavy. and it was sluggish, and heated my lappie really fast.

Nothing wrong with that, but I am wondering if Ram would help.

I have 4Gb right now, and I would be adding another 8Gb if I can find some.

 

[FAST6191]

I have seen it used to make some pretty sweet games (currently got one under review even) and I imagine that is a trend which will continue so yeah if you can get unity things going on I can get behind that.

Simpler answer to your question though would be download a suitable unity game/demo (or build the example game or one of your old projects) and see what resource monitors are telling you. They should tell you RAM, CPU, GPU, hard drive and network usage.

4 gigs is kind of on the low end these days so it could help, certainly would if you want to run it at the same time as your browser with a hundred youtube tabs in it. At the same time it might do sweet nothing for the game if it is CPU bound or GPU bound (lots of RAM use does not tend to overheat laptops, CPU and GPU almost always and if not that then I have once or twice seen a hard drive be the culprit, only time I ever really see RAM overheat is when people try to overclock it and that is a rare thing to be able to do on a laptop). If it is 4 gigs now it is likely DDR3 laptop ram (do check first though, https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html will tell you) which a quick scan of US vendors has shot back up in price (always does as it gets older and people seek a quick way for a speed bump). If it is a single 4 gig stick in there (again CPUZ will tell you) then I would consider a similar 4 gig stick to bring it to 8 as for most things that will be just as good as 12. If it is 2 lots of 2 gig sticks then I would probably consider 2 lots of 4 gig sticks.