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System Requirements grandMA3 onPC

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Version 2.1

If you would like to run grandMA3 on your PC, here is what it takes.

Type Minimum Recommended
Operating system Windows® 10 64bit version 1803 or later,
Windows® 11 64bit version 21H2 or later,
Apple® macOS® Catalina 10.15 or later,
Admin rights are required for all operating systems.
 
Processor 6th Generation Intel® Core CPU™ processor-based platform or later with 4 or more cores and SSE 4.2 or comparable AMD® CPU,
Apple® M1® SoC CPU with 8 or more cores,
Apple® M2® SoC CPU with 8 or more cores
 
RAM 8 GB 16 GB
Hard disk 32 GB of available space type SSD
Graphics card Any graphic card with hardware acceleration, OpenGL 4.1 support, and 1024 MB VRAM,
or
Apple® M1® SoC GPU with 8 or more cores.
Apple® M2® SoC GPU with 8 or more cores,
with hardware acceleration, OpenGL 4.1 support, and 8 GB unified memory
4 096 MB VRAM


32 GB unified memory
 
Resolution 1 920 x 1 080 or higher.  
Network card 1000BASE-T  

Additional requirements:

  • To use the grandMA3 onPC in session with grandMA3 consoles, a minimum of 16 GB of RAM (24GB Unified Memory when using Apple® M1® SoC or Apple® M2® SoC) is required.
  • To use the online help and download the latest version of grandMA3 onPC, make sure that you have internet access.
  • To save the software on a USB flash drive, use a USB 2.0 or 3.0 port.


Hint:
In general, more cores and more cache memory are recommended instead of a higher processor clock speed.
Hint:
For Apple® macOS® High Sierra 10.13 or Apple® mac OS® Mojave 10.14, grandMA3 onPC version 1.8.8.2 is required.
Important:
Unfortunately AMD Radeon driver 22.11.2 creates graphical issues. We recommend to use AMD Radeon Driver 22.5.1.