Windows requirements and compatibility

Before you begin to develop a Windows application in Unity, check Unity’s requirements and compatibility information for Windows.

Windows version support

Unity supports Windows 10 version 21H1 (build 19043) or newer.

CPU support

Unity supports the following CPU architectures:

• x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
• Arm64

Graphics API support

Windows devices support DirectX: DX10, DX11, DX12, and Vulkan capable GPUs.

Additional requirements

The IL2CPPA Unity-developed scripting back-end which you can use as an alternative to Mono when building projects for some platforms. More info
See in Glossary scripting backendA framework that powers scripting in Unity. Unity supports three different scripting backends depending on target platform: Mono, .NET and IL2CPP. Universal Windows Platform, however, supports only two: .NET and IL2CPP. More info
See in Glossary requires Visual Studio 2019 with C++ Tools component or later and Windows SDK version 10.0.19041.0 or newer.

Additional resources

• System requirements
• DirectX