Before you begin to develop a Windows application in Unity, check Unity’s requirements and compatibility information for Windows.
Unity supports Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Unity supports x86, x64 CPU architectures with SSE2 instruction set support.
Windows devices support DirectX: DX10, DX11, DX12.
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 2015 with C++ Tools component or later and Windows 10+ SDK.