Don't Send error while start unity

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Hey guys, I’m having problem while starting up Unity3D, I’ve just downloaded it, but it doesn’t work after instalation, I just double clicked the icon placed on my desktop then the Error report window shows up, how to solve this problem ? have I done something wrong? plz help…

Your running Windows right

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I've heard this plenty of times before and it happened to me too. It has nothing to do with your graphics card, Its simply the fact that you have windows. Unity seems to sometimes just not work on windows OS. I just use my mac but I know everyone doesn't just have one of those laying around. That's as much info I can give you. Sorry

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Like you can read <a href="http://unity3d.com/unity/system-requirements.html">here</a> Unity need pixelshader support or at least 4 texture units on your graphics card. Usually the setup complains about that before you can install it, but it might be a special case. You should contact the support and tell them the manufacturer and version of your graphics card. I guess they can tell you whether your card is sufficient for Unity or not.

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I disagree with FTheCloud here, it’s a cop out to say it’s because you use windows.

You will have a lot of difficulty making 3D games with a video card that doesn’t support pixel shader 1.1, even if the end game doesn’t require it. You will want a card that supports even higher than that if your game is going to involve anything more advanced than simple textured polygons.

Either way, I think you want to go to the forums, perhaps Unity Support Forums to figure out what’s going wrong with Unity.

I agree, saying it's because you use windows in nonsense. I've been using Unity on windows for ages, without any trouble - other then the ones that were introduced with 3.4 sights. Indeed either go to the forums, or directly mail support@unity3d.com. You'll have to be a little more specific then you were here though...

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Hey, I'm just sayin what I've experienced with windows and what I've heard from other people. Just because you haven't experienced the problem doesn't mean it's not out there. Trust me it's very real and I've already filed a bug report on the problem. Don't get down on me just for posting my opinion on the subject, hence the comments and not an answer.

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Make sure you have the latest(and optional) windows updates. One of them should give you a graphics update for pixel shaders.

If that doesn’t work you need to manually find it according to your graphics card model. I had to do the same thing for pixel shader 2.0 with Unreal UDK.

Yeah, If your video card doesn't support those, then I wouldn't know any way around to avoid it. Like I said, I was using the UDK and got an error saying "2.0 not supported" or something, i then updated my drivers and made sure everything was recent, and I was able to run it. I would assume Unity follows the same rule.

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