System Requirements

Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business, SP1 (recommended for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows); Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional 32-bit, SP3; Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64-bit, SP2; Fedora® Core 8 (recommended Linux distribution) for Softimage for Linux 64-bit
Intel® Pentium® D (minimum)
Dual-core processor workstation or higher (Intel or AMD® processors) (recommended)
Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® 1.5 (2.0 and higher recommended) professional graphics card with latest graphics driver available on the vendor’s website
DirectX® 9.0c and higher (recommended for support of the advanced features of DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 API
1 GB free hard drive space (Setup requires additional temporary disk space for your system’s temporary folder when decompressing files during installation.)
TCP/IP service protocol installed on both client and server computers
2 GB RAM for 32-bit operating systems; 4 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended for 64-bit operating systems
1,280 x 1,024 screen resolution recommended
Three-button mouse
A web browser to view any HTML documentation
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 5.5 or later to use the Net View tool
Network adapter with Internet connection for licensing (non-Internet connected licensing is also supported)
A DVD drive if installing the software or browsing the media from the Softimage DVD

Qualified Hardware
For the latest list qualified hardware, including graphics cards, refer to the qualified hardware chart.