do you need a powerful GPU for Unity

[manlykeweaver465]

i wanna start using unity but i was wondering if i need a powerful GPU to use it and test the game 

[Electronics Wizardy]

try it on your current system. You shouldn't need much.

[pipnina]

1 minute ago, manlykeweaver465 said:

i wanna start using unity but i was wondering if i need a powerful GPU to use it and test the game 

I kicked around in unity with HD3000 graphics. (I5 2500k, stock). It was certainly usable. 

I used to mess about in cryengine with a radeon 6450 and pentium 4. Until you put a lot of stuff in these engines, they really don't tax too much.

[King_of_Oz]

No. I use unity on an integrated gpu and it's fine. It really just depends on the game you are making.

[minibois]

Nope. I have ran it on my PC (which has a 512MB GTX 650 based GPU) and on laptops with Pentium iGPU's. Of course you can't have too many polygons or textures, but Unity handles itself quite nicely on all kinds of hardware (including phones)

[manlykeweaver465]

what about unreal engine 4 guys, i heard thats quite demanding

 

[pipnina]

1 minute ago, manlykeweaver465 said:

what about unreal engine 4 guys, i heard thats quite demanding

 

Never used that one, but I think it's a trend that these engines are only demanding when you've got a lot of stuff in them. See my above post where I talk about running cryengine 3 on a pentium 4.

[manlykeweaver465]

1 minute ago, pipnina said:

Never used that one, but I think it's a trend that these engines are only demanding when you've got a lot of stuff in them. See my above post where I talk about running cryengine 3 on a pentium 4.

yeah i saw i ordered a gtx 1060 which is coming tomorrow and i wanna learn to create a game (like a full game)

[pipnina]

1 minute ago, manlykeweaver465 said:

yeah i saw i ordered a gtx 1060 which is coming tomorrow and i wanna learn to create a game (like a full game)

"Full game" doesn't make a lot of sense as a phrase. A "Full game" could be chess or DotA 2. One is mechanically simple, has few interactions and would be a perfect starting point for a beginner. The other is EXTREMELY complex and has an entire team of experienced programmers maintaining it. Yet both can be considered "Full games".

 

For a single person, an attainable goal would be something like Undertale, a fighting game or a shooter. Try not to get bogged down with how everything looks and focus on it working. That is the most important bit.

[Mr.Meerkat]

7 minutes ago, pipnina said:

a shooter

You forgot the word 2D  

Even a simple 3D shooter (i.e. FPS or TPS) would be much much much harder than a 2D side scrolling shooter...

[pipnina]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

You forgot the word 2D  

Even a simple 3D shooter (i.e. FPS or TPS) would be much much much harder than a 2D side scrolling shooter...

Well, true. Camera orientation is somewhat difficult from a mathematical perspective... I remember trying to figure out how to make an orbiting camera, and discovering the word "quaternion"  

[manlykeweaver465]

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14 minutes ago, pipnina said:

"Full game" doesn't make a lot of sense as a phrase. A "Full game" could be chess or DotA 2. One is mechanically simple, has few interactions and would be a perfect starting point for a beginner. The other is EXTREMELY complex and has an entire team of experienced programmers maintaining it. Yet both can be considered "Full games".

 

For a single person, an attainable goal would be something like Undertale, a fighting game or a shooter. Try not to get bogged down with how everything looks and focus on it working. That is the most important bit.

i wouldnt be the only person working on the game, and i know i couldnt make an amazing game but i can try 

[pipnina]

1 minute ago, manlykeweaver465 said:

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i wouldnt be the only person working on the game, and i know i couldnt make an amazing game but i can try 

Anything is possible. But it WILL take a lot of work & effort, just keep that in mind.

Gl & hf

[scottyseng]

3 minutes ago, manlykeweaver465 said:

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i wouldnt be the only person working on the game, and i know i couldnt make an amazing game but i can try 

Yeah, I'm learning Unity myself, but no, you don't need a powerful GPU unless you really start tacking a lot on the engine or if you want to learn how to 3D model your own parts as well.

 

It does take a lot of effort as mentioned above. What matters more if getting something done to start off rather than something "amazing" so you don't burn yourself out.

[maremp]

It's free software and it's not that large to download, it would be best to try it yourself and see how it performs now.

 

Just for comparison, I tried it on my late 2013 macbook with Intel Iris gpu, which is shit by any standards, it barely managed to run Firewatch at 720p. But when I was working in Unity, although it was a project with relatively small scenes, it performed decently.

 

Learning to create a game should not be the reason to drop your bucks on a gpu. I've bought my gtx 1070 thinking I'll use it for game development class at uni, but I then dropped the class because the curriculum didn't appeal to me and I've learned most of the stuff myself prior to that. This brand new build with all latest and greatest components didn't run Unity once, because I was to lazy to get anything started. I don't regret buying it, because it works amazingly well in all games and only drawback is that it's still not supported on hackintosh.

I would suggest not upgrading your gpu before you're certain that you like game development and want to invest a lot of your time in it. Edit: After writing this, I saw that you've already ordered it, so I'm probably too late now.

 

And just as a heads up, learning to create, what I imagine a beginner would describe "like a full game", is a huge task. Not to discourage you, but you'll have to learn modelling, which requires a different software, such as blender, maya or 3ds max, programming for in-game object behavior, AI and so on, level design, animation and so on.

Unity has built-in solutions for everything but modelling, so it's a great starting-off point. Also Unity's store provides tons of free solutions for 3d models, already coded behavior and so on. I'm not all up to date on this, but when I was learning back when Unity 3.5 was current version, BurgZergArcade had some amazing tutorials. He created a series of over 200 parts where he developed a whole RPG game with full combat system using multiple styles (melee, magic), AI and much more. He was kind enough to put it all up on youtube, this is his channel https://www.youtube.com/user/BurgZergArcade and the playlist is called "Unity3d Tutorial - Hack & Slash RPG" (it's actually in 2 playlists, first parts 1-200 and second parts 201-306).

[manlykeweaver465]

18 minutes ago, pipnina said:

Anything is possible. But it WILL take a lot of work & effort, just keep that in mind.

Gl & hf

at college we are currently learning visual basic which is almost like scratch (throwback to highschool XD) its pretty easy to use but im still learning 

[manlykeweaver465]

14 minutes ago, maremp said:

It's free software and it's not that large to download, it would be best to try it yourself and see how it performs now.

 

Just for comparison, I tried it on my late 2013 macbook with Intel Iris gpu, which is shit by any standards, it barely managed to run Firewatch at 720p. But when I was working in Unity, although it was a project with relatively small scenes, it performed decently.

 

Learning to create a game should not be the reason to drop your bucks on a gpu. I've bought my gtx 1070 thinking I'll use it for game development class at uni, but I then dropped the class because the curriculum didn't appeal to me and I've learned most of the stuff myself prior to that. This brand new build with all latest and greatest components didn't run Unity once, because I was to lazy to get anything started. I don't regret buying it, because it works amazingly well in all games and only drawback is that it's still not supported on hackintosh.

I would suggest not upgrading your gpu before you're certain that you like game development and want to invest a lot of your time in it. Edit: After writing this, I saw that you've already ordered it, so I'm probably too late now.

 

And just as a heads up, learning to create, what I imagine a beginner would describe "like a full game", is a huge task. Not to discourage you, but you'll have to learn modelling, which requires a different software, such as blender, maya or 3ds max, programming for in-game object behavior, AI and so on, level design, animation and so on.

Unity has built-in solutions for everything but modelling, so it's a great starting-off point. Also Unity's store provides tons of free solutions for 3d models, already coded behavior and so on. I'm not all up to date on this, but when I was learning back when Unity 3.5 was current version, BurgZergArcade had some amazing tutorials. He created a series of over 200 parts where he developed a whole RPG game with full combat system using multiple styles (melee, magic), AI and much more. He was kind enough to put it all up on youtube, this is his channel https://www.youtube.com/user/BurgZergArcade and the playlist is called "Unity3d Tutorial - Hack & Slash RPG" (it's actually in 2 playlists, first parts 1-200 and second parts 201-306).

yeah i know the basics of 3d modelling but the only stuff i did with editing was creating low poly images and i didnt buy the GPU specifically for development i brought it mainly for gaming (i play alot of rust and im starting to get pretty good but i lag). i tried to create a game a while back but i was like 14 then and i was very impatient so i got nothing done lol

[Ben718]

I did a small test level on UE4 on my HD530 laptop ( I think )

and while in idle, it hovered around 40FPS ( Just a platform and atmospheric fog )

But while putting a lot of things, I did around 20FPS, So I put the settings down where it should be fine, But if 3D compelx models, you will be fine with just a low end card ( might need to put down settings )