Uh weird stuff has been happening ever since i finally got unity onto linux.

[cupcakecool]

Okay so when im in the middle of trying to make a game it will glitch for a bit then normal. Then it will glitch again but more intense then it will stop. Then it will glitch really badly. Then it will be slow laggy when the rest of my laptop are just fine only unity. Then after it will be normal. Then it will crash. Then my laptop will turn off then when it loads it will say unity/wine as crashed. and this only started happening since i got unity. Any ideas why this happens? Or why it started happening when i finally got unity?

[spacepluk]

Hard to say without more information (distro, wine version, hardware details, gpu driver, etc.)
It's pretty smooth on my machine. The computer shouldn't turn off, maybe your laptop has poor ventilation?

[cupcakecool]

But it has good ventilation and its new my mom did the same with unity and it works fine my distro is linux mint newest version which is rebecca and my wine is 1.7.47 . and my laptop is a toshiba it came with windows 8.1 and i dont know what the gpu driver is. though i have had my hard drive replaced after what happened with a windows update it wiped my hard drive.

[jurf]

Get your laptop cleaned. It's overheating like hell. Unity is creating more heat than the fan can stuff through the dust.

How old is your laptop?

[cupcakecool]

my laptop is half a year old

[cupcakecool]

and its clean

[jurf]

Have you looked?

Hehe, you stopped using capital letters quickly ;)

[cupcakecool]

Haha, Sorry force of habit. And yes i have looked.

[jurf]

Wait, you mean you've took your laptop apart?

[cupcakecool]

no but i have cleaned my laptop

[spacepluk]

It sounds like a cooling problem to me, but it could be other kind of hardware malfunction. If you want to be completely sure install some tool to monitor the temperatures while you're running unity and check if you go over the maximums specified for your specific cpu/gpu.

Cleaning the outside doesn't help with cooling problems. The heatsink might be clogged or the thermal paste not making good contact because of a drop or because it wasn't applied correctly in the factory, etc. It also could be that the laptop design is flawed and can't physically cool the machine properly. On the bright side my main machine is a Razer Blade which is probably the hottest laptop on earth and I managed to tame the temperatures, so everything is possible.

If it's an intel cpu you can try disabling turbo boost in the BIOS or playing around with the kernel governor until you find a good temperature/performance balance.

[cupcakecool]

thanks i did all that and fixed it thanks

[jurf]

Oh, OK. Cool.

[spacepluk]

Great! I'm glad it helped :)