System Requirements

Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional, Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business (SP2), or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3) operating system
Intel® Pentium® D processor workstation
Certified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® 1.5 (or higher) professional graphics card with latest graphics driver available from vendor
DirectX® 9.0c application programming interface or higher (recommended for support of the advanced features of DirectX® 9 application programming interface)
1 GB free hard drive space. Setup requires additional temporary disk space for the system’s temporary folder when decompressing files during installation.
TCP/IP service protocol installed on both client and server computers
2 GB of RAM
1,280 x 1,024 screen resolution recommended
Three-button mouse
A web browser to view HTML documentation
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® internet browser 5.5 or higher
Network adaptor with Internet connection for licensing (non-Internet connected licensing is also supported)
DVD-ROM drive

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Microsoft Windows Vista Business x64 (SP2), Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 (SP2), or Fedora™ Core 14 operating system
Intel Pentium D processor
Certified hardware-accelerated OpenGL 1.5 (or higher) professional graphics card with latest graphics driver available on vendor's site
DirectX 9.0c and higher (recommended for support of the advanced features of DirectX 9 application programming interface)
1 GB free hard drive space. Setup requires additional temporary disk space for the system’s temporary folder when decompressing files during installation.
TCP/IP service protocol installed on both client and server computers
4 GB of RAM
1,280 x 1,024 screen resolution recommended
Three-button mouse
A web browser to view HTML documentation
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher
Network adaptor with Internet connection for licensing (non-Internet connected licensing is also supported)
DVD-ROM drive

For the latest list of certified hardware, including graphics cards, refer to the Softimage certification chart.

Notes:

Microsoft Windows

To run Softimage, you can be a Restricted user (Users), Standard user (Power Users), or Administrator.
To install and license Softimage, you must be an Administrator.
Autodesk does not support 32-bit applications running on 64-bit machines.
A license for Softimage will activate both the 32-bit version and the 64-bit version of Softimage. The setups for the 32-bit and 64-bit versions can be run from the Softimage DVD or accessed via download.

Linux® operating system

Softimage 2012 is also capable of running on other configurations, such as boutique distributions of Linux. However, enumerating systems that are not tested and cannot be supported or that fall below the requirements for a productive user experience is beyond the scope of the online qualification charts.