grandMA3 User Manual Publication

System Requirements grandMA3 onPC

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

TypeMinimum
Recommended
Operating system
 Windows® 10 64bit version 1803 or later,
Windows® 11 64bit version 21H2 or later,
Apple® macOS® Sonoma (version 14) 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, AVX2, 
Apple® M1® SoC CPU with 8 or more cores or later.
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RAM
 8 GB
16 GB
Hard disk
32 GB of available space
type SSD
Graphics card
Any graphic card with hardware acceleration, Vulkan 1.3 support, and 2048 MB VRAM,
or
Apple® M1® SoC GPU with 8 or more cores or later.
4 096 MB VRAM


32 GB unified memory
Resolution
1 920 x 1 080 or higher.
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Network card
1000BASE-T
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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 later) 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.
Known Limitation:
The grandMA3 onPC software and the USB device drivers currently do not support Windows® 11 on ARM processors.
Hint:
In general, more cores and more cache memory are recommended instead of a higher processor clock speed.
Hint:
The maximum supported software version for Apple® macOS® High Sierra 10.13 and Apple® macOS® Mojave 10.14 is grandMA3 onPC version 1.8.8.2.

The maximum supported software version for Apple® macOS® Catalina 10.15 and Apple® macOS® Big Sur 11 is grandMA3 onPC version 2.1.1.5.

The maximum supported software version for Apple® macOS® Monterey 12 and Apple® macOS® Ventura 13 is grandMA3 onPC version 2.4.2.2.
Important:
We recommend always using the latest graphics card driver version.