System Requirements for Unity Web Player

HI,

I'm wondering if anyone knows at least the very minimum system requirements for the Unity Web Player. I noticed the requirements in the homepage, but I've tested Unity in several computers that meet these requirements and the web player either BSODs on Windows XP or starts making the screen flicker uncontrollably on PPC OS X 10.4.10. Of course, it also works great on other computers that I've tried.

I want to make sure that I don't send users to play the game and crash their computers.

Thanks,
Sandro

 

Are 64MB of VRAM and 768MB of RAM too low for the 1.33 GHz PPC Mac? I downloaded a tool that logs VRAM usage and the web player that I created certainly wasn't using too much VRAM. The file size of the game is just 1.4MB.

I really would just like some minimum requirements that I can post before anyone decides to play the game. The target audience would be technically inclined so they would understand, and probably want to know these minimum requirements.

Thanks for the quick response. Unity 2.0 sounds like it's going to be great! And, it should be out pretty soon from what I've read!

Thanks,
Sandro

 

I've played the FPS, Car and Nature demo on a very under spec Windows laptop with very good frame rates indeed.

Windows XP
786Mhz
128MB Ram
No graphic card (to speak of)

 

Thanks prowland, but now this makes things more complicated Basically, I'm deducing that there are no concrete minimum requirements. So rather, I'd would like to know if anyone has recommended requirements? The game will be a first person shooter, web player at around 640x480 or smaller.

Say for example:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Radeon 7000 or similar
256 MB of RAM

Any Intel Mac or 1.5 GHz PowerPC Mac and above, etc..

Thanks,
Sandro

 

The thing is, it depends so much on your game. It's really not possible to estimate system requirements until you've got something done. A first person shooter web player could run great on a 500MHz G3, or badly on a 3GHz Xeon, depending on what you're doing. The screen resolution, for example, doesn't matter unless you're making heavy use of pixel shaders.

--Eric

 

these pages are good to read to get an idea if you have your game spec'd out well, but like eric said you really need to put something together with your major performance components in place to have a solid answer ; )

http://unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/Optimizing Graphics Performance.html

http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=General_Performance_Tips

http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=Minimum_Graphic_Card_Requirements

 

There are OS requirements listed on the Web Player download page:

* On Mac OS X, the Unity Web Player requires Mac OS X 10.2.8 or newer.
* On Windows, the Unity Web Player requires Windows 2000/XP/Vista.


As far as minimum specs for hardware go those are going to vary quite wildly with your game content but you can see some references to minimum specs on the Unity trial download page (although some of these are for authoring in particular, some are player-specific):

* Mac OS X "Panther" 10.3.9 or later
* Radeon or GeForce graphics card with 32 MB of RAM
* Will run fluently on any Intel Mac
* On PPC based Macs, we recommend a 500MHz G3 processor or better
* (games will run on Windows 2000/XP and Mac OS X "Jaguar" 10.2, and a Rage 128 graphics card or better depending on complexity)


Please note that we do understand that this sort of information needs to be a *lot* easier to find and be a bit better organized on our site so please stay tuned for those sorts of changes.

 

Well, on an iMac G4 700 MHz PPC while running 10.4.8 the installer said that I need 10.5. So after spending AGES repartitioning and reinstalling 10.5.8 I tried to install Unity player only to be told that "Unity Player cannot be installed on this computer. Let me tell you my son was not impressed....

So, how do I get it installed? This computer exceeds the above system requirements!

 

You quoted requirements from 2007. In 2014 you need an Intel Mac with 10.5 or later.