32-Bit 3ds Max 2012 or 3ds Max Design 2012 for Windows
Operating system: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional operating system, Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business operating system (SP2 or higher), or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional operating system (SP3 or higher)
For general animation and rendering (typically fewer than 1,000 objects or 100,000 polygons):
- Intel® 64 or AMD64 processor with SSE2 technology
- 8 GB RAM
- 8 GB swap space**
- 3 GB free hard drive space
- Direct3D 10, Direct3D 9, or OpenGL-capable graphics card† (1 GB or higher video card memory)
- Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
- DVD-ROM drive††
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher or Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or higher browser
- Internet connection for web downloads and Autodesk Subscription-aware access
64-Bit 3ds Max 2012 or 3ds Max Design 2012 for Windows
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional x64, Microsoft Windows Vista Business x64 (SP2 or higher), or Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 (SP3 or higher)
For general animation and rendering (typically fewer than 1,000 objects or 100,000 polygons):
- Intel® 64 or AMD64 processor with SSE2 technology*
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
- 4 GB swap space (8 GB recommended)**
- 3 GB free hard drive space
- Direct3D 10, Direct3D 9, or OpenGL-capable graphics card† (256 MB or higher video card memory, 1 GB recommended)
- Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
- DVD-ROM drive††
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher or Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or higher browser
- Internet connection for web downloads and Autodesk Subscription-aware access
For large scenes and complex data sets (typically more than 1,000 objects or 100,000 polygons):
- Intel® Pentium® 4 1.4 GHz or equivalent AMD® processor with SSE2 technology
- 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
- 2 GB swap space (4 GB recommended)**
- 3 GB free hard drive space
- Direct3D® 10 technology, Direct3D 9, or OpenGL-capable graphics card† (256 MB or higher video card memory, 1 GB or higher recommended)
- Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
- DVD-ROM drive††
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 8.0 internet browser or higher or Mozilla® Firefox® 3.0 internet browser or higher
- Internet connection for web downloads and Autodesk® Subscription-aware access