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Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by Omar Rojo, Nov 28, 2007.

  1. Omar Rojo

    Omar Rojo

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    The builds of Unity 1.6 runs on windows Vista?

    Im planning to buy a notebook with two nVidia 8700M GT with SLI and i cant find a solution with 8700M GT and windows XP.. is that because windows XP doesnt support such a video card ??

    Thanks

    .ORG
     
    Omar Rojo, Nov 28, 2007
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  2. Jessy

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    Content that uses Unity 1.x Pro features always crashes my XP boxes, and my Vista-using friends couldn't open any Unity 1.6 content if it was delivered as just a .html and a .unityweb.
     
    Jessy, Nov 28, 2007
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  3. Aras

    Aras

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    Unity 1.x games use OpenGL for drawing things on the screen. Even if we have lots of broken driver workarounds, some OpenGL drivers are just totally broken. This was one of the reasons why we did a Direct3D renderer in Unity 2.0, we're seeing much fewer problems (and better performance).

    Other than that, Unity 1.x games run on Vista just as fine as on XP.

    Windows XP supports GeForce 8600 just fine as well. Can be hard to find a new machine with XP preinstalled though.
     
    Aras, Nov 29, 2007
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