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Game Development Unity Basics Debugging Games The Profiler

Posted by Puck McPuck
Puck McPuck
1,695 Points

GPU profiling is not supported by the graphics card driver?

In the profiler, the message "GPU profiling is not supported by the graphics card driver (or it is disabled because of driver bugs)" appears in the GPU usage bar and is not collecting data. I am using an iMac desktop with OS X El Capitan. Why is this happening?

1 Answer

Nick Pettit
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Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher
Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Puck,

Unfortunately this is a pretty common problem in Unity. It usually means either the hardware/OS combination is not supported by the profiler, or the profiler has captured frames with the GPU profiler turned off during the capture. You can try turning it on and then playing the game again. Either it will work, or it just means your GPU isn't supported by Unity. It could also be a bug within Unity - although unlikely, the GPU profiler has been known to have issues over the years.

Puck McPuck
Puck McPuck
1,695 Points

Nick,

Thank you very much for your quick response! After restarting the GPU Profiler and running my game again, the same message appeared so there must be a problem with Unity and my hardware/OS combination.