System Requirements

Our tests have shown that our products perform best when used with the system configurations listed below. Although many of our products will run on older or less-powerful systems, those listed below are the minimum system requirements which we support.

Apple Macintosh
Mac OS X 10.8 and later
Minimum of 1 GB of RAM
30 MB of hard drive space

PC / Windows
Windows 7 64-bit
Windows 8 64-bit
Minimum of 1 GB of RAM
30 MB of hard drive space

Video card requirements

The minimum GPU on Mac is an Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics chip and on Windows OS a minimum of an Intel HD 5000 integrated graphics chip is needed. Of course, newer and faster discrete GPU parts from AMD will yield faster performance. For Nvidia, we recommend 5xx, 6xx, or 7xx series graphics cards; mobile GPUs; or the professional series Quadro cards. For AMD, we recommend 6000, 7000, or 200 series graphics cards; mobile GPUs; or the professional series FireGL cards. Any CPU from Intel or AMD is supported.

VRAM size requirements: For HD resolution output, we recommend that your GPU have at least 1 GB of memory. If you are planning on doing high-resolution project in 4K or more, we recommend a GPU with at least 2 GB of memory.