My friend has installed Unity Trial having taken it from an official site. After installation he sees this error. Why?
Hes computer is:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
4 Gb RAM
Nvidia GeForce 8600GT 256mb
MacOS X kalyway Leopard 10.5.2 intel/amd sse2 and sse3
so how does this happen have you tried downloading unity again cause there could of been an error in downloading such as in opera sometimes where it deletes or changes a important file.
Does he type in his password correctly cause that could be the problem.
OR permissions error such as unity not being able to write to the applications folder, try setting the permissions on it to everyone read and write for the installation as that seems most likely.
That’s a hackintosh, not a Mac, so bizarre things occasionally happen. Other people have gotten Unity to run on a hackintosh, so it can be done, but it’s not supported.
–Eric
I have Unity on Hackintosh and have no problems. :roll:
As I said, it can be done. But with different hardware you never know.
–Eric
Thanks a lot! Undoubtedly it is very convenient and informative answer. :evil:
But its the simple truth.
The requirements are clearly expressed: Apple Machine with OSX
Not “some OSX like machine”
Especially your OS is outdated likely as you can not patch without risking to be locked out and there have been nasty bugs for game development in 10.5.1 - 10.5.4 (even 10.5.5 but the 10.5.6 isn’t out yet)
Face it: get an apple or stop annoying apple devs with your non mac machine daydreams
Thanks for reaply. At first this is not my machine and not my problem, but my friend has it.
By second, I know many peoples who work with Unity under “NON Apple computers”. I did it too and haven’t this troubles.
We will be looking for.
The thing is, since you’re in an unsupported environment, the error could be caused by a zillion different anomalies.
Not supported simply means not supported. Too many unknowns and zero familiarity. You’ve started a post in the unity support forum involving unsupported variables…
But hey! 2.5 has been announced with windows support. Your solution is just around the corner.
Well, somebody will be wait, but I will continue to work under Hackintosh. ;0)
I think this is not frequent trouble. Not, I don’t think, but I know it.
Official answer (just so one is offered from the UT end of things): Hackintosh machiens aren’t supported and we’re not sure why that error happens to some people but not others (we have received a few reports, but not many). Furthermore we are not going to investigate nor fix any Hackintosh related issues, instead we support legit Mac OS X machines (Mac OS X on Apple hardware) and we will soon support Windows machines with a Windows-native environment.
So if it works for you then great, keep at it. But I now have it noted (mentally) that you’re on a Hackintosh and as such you’re using an unsupported configuration, thus I’ll read any of your reported issues with a slightly more skeptical eye.
I thought that in the bug reports the operating system and a computer configuration at once is specified.
If it not so, I specify it by myself in the future.
Forgive me if I not the rights, but I thought that there is nothing illegal or criminal in using Hackintosh. Please, correct me if I am not right.
There is nothing illegal nor criminal about what you’re doing from our point of view (Apple might feel differently about their OS on non-Apple hardware but that’s not our concern). The “problem” is just that it’s not an officially supported configuration so any issues or bugs that get reported when using Unity on a Hackintosh configuration get extremely low (if not zero) priority. Instead we prefer to spend out time and energy on sorting out bugs in supported configurations.
And on the bug report side, yes that sort of data is included in your submitted bug reports. But I don’t personally patrol bug submissions, that’s handled by our support/QA team. My reference was to the issues you cite while posting here on the forums.
I absolutely seriously thought that MAcOS X it OpenSource version of MacOS.I am very upset that it not so because thought that is powerful and long-awaited alternative to preponderance of the Windows OS.
I was certainly naive 
, but nevertheless, I do not presume to buy the average (Apple TM) computer at the price of a spaceship . I should to continue work as I am to an first release of the Unity version for Windows.
If I find new bugs in Unity, I will inform about without fail adding a type of my operating system. ;0)
Do not consider me as the impudent person, just Unity is very much pleasant to me. 8)
OS X is very much a regular OS. Purchase to use, but only on apple hardware (as stated in OS X’s license agreement).
If you paid for the OS X license, but use it on non-apple hardware, then you’re “only” in violation of the OS X license agreement (people have different opinions on what that means). If you downloaded OS X from a non-apple site without paying for it then its piracy which is usually very much not legal.
Our consideration left to the outside and led anywhere.
If some licenses will be necessary to my work I without delay purchase this.
I asked about the error.
Answer is obtained.
End of the query.
Thanks.
8)
Fair enough, rock on. 8)
Repair rights permissions and all’ll be O’Key.
SOLVED. 8)
Could you please explain with more detail how you solved this issue. I am having the same issue. Obviously some of us would like to test this software without going out and buying a Mac and thats what I intend to do. Thanks in advance.