GLSL No subshaders can run on this graphics card :( (GTX 980)

Unity Engine
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[EDIT]
I suspect that I am silly and GLSL doesn’t apply to windows computers xD Am I right?
In that case, is there a way to force it to work?

Hey guys!

Reading this section on basic shaders using GLSL GLSL Programming/Unity/Minimal Shader - Wikibooks, open books for an open world

but when I jump into Unity, I get the error: "Shader warning in ‘GLSL custom shader’: No subshaders can run on this graphics card.
None of the shaders discussed in the further sections of wiki work ether (when copy-pasted)

Even if I reduce all the code to just:

Shader “GLSL custom shader” {
SubShader {
Pass {
GLSLPROGRAM

ENDGLSL
}
}
}

I get the same error. My card is Gigabyte GTX 980

However any CGPROGRAM shaders can compile and execute correctly.
I stumbled accross this guy: Simple shader throws warning "No subshaders can run on this graphics card" - Unity Engine - Unity Discussions

but his code runs fine on my machine, even though he had the same error message on his pc.

Please help and thank you!

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Indeed, you have to run unity in a forced openGL mode:

  1. Create a shortcut of unity.exe file
    2)Right click on unity shortcut → properties and change in Target from “C:\Program Files\Unity\Editor\Unity.exe”

to

“C:\Program Files\Unity\Editor\Unity.exe” -force-opengl

  1. double click on that new shortcut to start unity in a forced opengl mode

if it helped anyone, you can check out my youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/Kapurod

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I ran Unity with the -force-opengl flag and my project worked in the preview. But when I did the Build and Run, it still failed. So I went to the command line and ran the player manually with " myproject.exe -force-opengl" and the got the project to work. Wish there was a way to automate that, but couldn’t find any docs.

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