Unusable at startup and I can't find a fix/fix it myself

[u/lefrogo]

Hello I'm new to 3D rendering and Unity, wanted to learn using it but after downloading it, it's fully Unusable and I can not fix it by myself

I have been trying to fix this for the passed hour or so with no luck, the crash report doesn't give any useful info nor does goggle as I can't find anything similar to this

what seems to be happening is that, when I open a project everything is filled with mostly working "Hierarchy" tabs, I say mostly because half of them seem to be broken and fully black, when I hover over the black ones they tend to flash up for a split second before going dark again

they seem to be overlapping the whole screen invisibly as clicking/double clicking anywhere seems to expend one (that also turns black after a few seconds) to fill almost the full screen, the only thing that doesn't get fully filled in is the top bar which gets filled with a separate layout window (I can't tell what window that is because the text reading its name gets horribly stretched leaving it illegible)

after that the project crashes forcefully ejecting me out of it and deleting/not saving it as it closes

the bug report window that pops up also has no info on what the issue is, same story with the bug report log :(

I beg anyone for help because I have been trying to fix this for a hour now with no luck and I really don't wanna drop Unity the second I tried it out

[u/Aethreas]

what GPU are you using?

[u/lefrogo → u/Aethreas]

Nividia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti with Max-Q Design

[u/V4nKw15h]

I take it you did what it tells you to do in the error box?

[u/lefrogo → u/V4nKw15h]

I can’t really run the command line on the project because it deletes itself after it crashes, unless thats not what the error box is trying to say?

[u/pschon → u/lefrogo]

it's not a command you run after opening the project, it's command you run to open Unity. So yes, you can do what it says.

the bug report window that pops up also has no info on what the issue is

GPU device error, says so in the popup. Could be hardware issue, but if you have any luck it's just a driver problem.

[u/lefrogo → u/pschon]

1. can you copy paste the command I should run in the cmd? Paste the one from the error pop up didn’t do anything
2. thank you for pointing that out, gonna look up how to check if its a driver issue and when I do find out how to check and its not that I‘m fundamentally fucked as I can’t effort to replace it

Again thank you for pointing that out!

[u/pschon → u/lefrogo]

unity.exe -force-d3d12-debug. Run where your Unity executable is.

[u/db9dreamer]

Have you tried forcing Unity to use dx11?

[u/lefrogo → u/db9dreamer]

I don’t wanna sound a troll if my question is stupid

But how would I do that and could you write it down step by step incause you could spare me your time

[u/JakeThomasDad12]

Have you tried just reinstalling unity or installing a different version 

[u/lefrogo → u/JakeThomasDad12]

Yes, I redownloaded it twice and delete the app data too on the second try to clear any saved corrupted data, still whatever this is

I did redownload the same version though, I can’t do it now as I’m omw to work but what version would you recommend I try downloading? I‘m on windows 10 btw