Hardware and Software Considerations
Hardware changes constantly, and it evolves faster than publications can keep up. Having
a good solid machine is important to a production, although simple home computers will
be able to run 3ds Max quite well. Any laptop (with discrete graphics) or desktop PC running
Windows XP Professional or Windows Vista (32 or 64 bit) with at least 1GB of RAM
and an Intel Pentium Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64 or higher processor will work. Of
course, having a good video card will help; you can use any hardware-accelerated OpenGL
or Direct3D video card. Your computer system should have at least a 3GHz processor with
1GB of RAM, a few GBs of hard drive space available, and an Nvidia GeForceFX or ATI
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Radeon video card. Professionals may want to opt for workstation graphics cards, such as
the ATI FireGL or the Nvidia QuadroFX series of cards. The following systems would be
good ones to use:
??? Intel Pentium Core2Duo, 2GB RAM, nVidia Quadro FX1400, 400GB 7200 RPM
hard disk
??? AMD Opteron 2x, 2GB RAM, ATI FireGL V5000, 400GB hard disk
You can check the list of system requirements at Autodesk??™s website at
www.autodesk.com/3dsmax.
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