Hi I am new to game development and I just want to know that I have Lenovo ideapad 320 14inch laptop with 6gb of memory i5 7th gen and 4gb of amd redone dedicated graphic card so can I make a 2d game on this laptop using unity engine???
should work,
personally I’d probably use 2017.4 version for that, if the newer versions are too slow/heavy. (or even unity 5.6, which could feel even faster)… but its quick to test the never versions too:
I just finished researching your laptop to see if it would be possible to upgrade it a bit to make it more viable for game development and the official specifications don’t match the hardware you’re claiming it has.
Your processor is not an i5 but rather an i3 and it’s a low power variant at that. It completely lacks the boosting capabilities of most models meaning it’s stuck at its very slow 2.4 GHz base clock. For comparison a high-end laptop processor from that time period has four cores and boosts to 3.8 GHz.
According to Lenovo you have Intel HD integrated graphics and not an AMD dedicated graphics card. This is backed up by the fact that you only see 6 GB of the 8 GB RAM the laptop ships with. Intel’s integrated graphics works by reserving a portion of system memory for its exclusive use. If you had dedicated you’d see 8 GB.
https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/laptops/ideapad/300-series/Ideapad-320-14-Intel-IKB/p/88IP3000841
To be honest while you might be able to make it work for game development I don’t think you’ll be able to get very far with this laptop. It just depends on how complex of a 2D game you wish to make. If you intend to use shaders in a heavy way or the more advanced 2D features present in the latest releases it’s likely not going to work out.
Be aware that even if you do manage to make it work the entire development process will be sluggish at best.
It should run Unity and be usable for simple projects. You are going to get substandard performance though. 6GB of usable RAM and the HDD instead of SSD will likely make Unity feel very sluggish. Since getting good performance would really need you to upgrade everything, I’d start saving for a new computer rather than suggest specific upgrades.
There’s a lot of good laptops in the $1k USD price range right now.