Ever since buying a new G752VL in early March of 2016, I have been unable to use Unity v5.3.5 ( or any earlier version either ) for my game development.
In Unity there were random graphic glitches all over the UI and most annoyingly, the RUN option to test games was totally bugged.
It would pause the game playback every few seconds, making it impossible to to run or test the game while developing. This was a total deal breaker.
I also had another issue with Premiere CS5.5. Premiere would crash when I tried to use the full screen video output to a second monitor.
It would go to a black screen and Premiere would hang, requiring a forced shutdown. This made editing very frustrating. I was pulling out my hair.
I was just about ready to return the laptop when I did one last seacrh for others with this same issue. What I found was two threads on the Unity forums.
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/editor-interface-graphical-glitches.359021/http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/editor-issues-with-5-2-0-on-windows-10-rendering-glitches.354920/These thread were talking about issues with audio drivers, which I found rather interesting, as none of my issue were audio related, or so it seemed.
So, I uninstalled Sonic Studio II, rebooted and loaded up a Unity project. Then, for the first time in three months, Unity ran smooth as butter with no graphics issues and no stuttering. Wow, what a great feeling!
On a lark, I then loaded up a Premiere project, and lo and behold, chose the option to display full screen video to 2nd monitor and yes, you guessed it, it worked!
Wow, this was a total surprise. I'm back to work and being productive on my moderately expensive laptop! Never in a million years would I have guessed it was a pre-installed audio driver that was hosing my system.
So, now the audio sounds pretty crummy and I'm pretty sure the sub-woofer is doing NOTHING but taking up space, but I'm working again.
There sure seems to be quite a few issues with this ROG laptop series, including the totally borked USB ports on the left side. I'll probably keep it now, but it is disconcerting to pay this much money and have these issues. To make it evern more mysterious, ASUS advertises UNITY dev on the main sales page for the G752VL web page. Have they ever tested if it worked? Mine didn't RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!
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