System Requirements

A list of supported operating systems and minimum requirements for hardware and memory.

Windows

Operating System
Windows 10 (64-bit)
Memory
8 GB of RAM (32 GB recommended)
15 GB or more of free hard disk space
Graphics Hardware
OpenGL 3D graphics accelerator compatible with OpenGL 3.2 or higher
OpenCL 2.1 required
True color (24-bit) support
Install/update to most recent OpenGL patches/drivers
1920x1080 screen resolution or higher for optimal user experience
2 GB or higher dedicated RAM
Only AMD and NVIDIA GPUs supported (Intel chipsets are not supported)
Video Recording

Any graphics card can be used when recording animated GIFs. MP4 video recording is only supported for NVIDIA GPUs, beginning with the Maxwell 2 generation chipset and with a minimum graphics driver version of 378.66.

Other supported generations include:
  • Maxwell 2 Generation
  • Maxwell (GM206)
  • Pascal
  • Volta
  • Turing (RTX)
The newer the generation, the better the support.
For more details:

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk#NVENCFeatures

https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix#Encoder

Linux (for Remote Job Submission)

Operating System
RHEL/CentOS 8.2 (64-bit)
Memory
8 GB of RAM (32 GB recommended)
15 GB or more of free hard disk space
Note: The canberra-gtk-module is required for installation on Linux.