That’s the reason most companies stick to LTS versions of the engine: because of its stability and long-term support.

LTS versions have the benefit that they are planned to be updated bi-weekly with bug fixes for 2 years, while new major versions of Unity release. After that, the next year’s edition of the engine is released, and the cycle repeats.

Near the end of the year or during the beginning of the next one, an LTS ( long-term support) version is released, which will be 2022.3 for this edition of the book, marking the end of new features being added to that year’s version of the engine. Unity releases a new major version each year-at the time of writing, 2022.1-and during that year it receives an update with new features, which is planned to be 2022.2 at the time of writing this book. Now that we know the requirements, let’s discuss the Unity installation management system.

On Linux, OpenGL 3.2 or any superior version, or a Vulkan-compatible card from Nvidia and AMD is supported.

On Mac, any Metal-capable Intel or AMD GPU will be enough.

On Windows, we need a graphics card with DirectX 10, 11, or 12 support (most modern GPUs support it).

In the case of Macs with Apple silicon, M1 or above is neededįinally, regarding graphics cards, these are the supported ones:.

Your CPU needs to support SSE2 (most CPUs support it).

Regarding the CPU, these are the requirements:

For Linux, you need exactly Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04, or CentOS 7.

In any other case, you can run Intel versions of the editor from High Sierra 10.13 or superior.

For Mac, you need Big Sur 11.0 to run Apple silicon versions of the editor.

Unity will run only on 64-bit versions of those systems there is no 32-bit support unless you are willing to work with Unity versions before 2017.x, but that’s outside the scope of this book.

If you use Windows, you need Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or greater, Windows 10, or Windows 11.

To run Unity 2022, your computer will need to meet the following operating system requirements: In this section, we will be looking at the following concepts:įirst, we will discuss what is necessary to run Unity on our computers. It seems like a straightforward first step, but we can discuss the proper ways to do this. We’ll begin with a simple but necessary first step: installing Unity.

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