System Requirements
Shade 3D ver.14 is available on the Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X operating systems.
Windows 32/64 bit
- Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 (64-bit OS required for 64-bit installation)
- Windows 32 Bit: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo, AMD Athlon II or newer (CPU with SSE2 support required)
- Windows 64 Bit: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or newer (CPU with SSE3 support required)
- 2 GB (4 GB recommended)
- 5 GB free hard drive space
- DVD-ROM drive (if installing from DVD), Internet connection environment
- 1,024 x 768 resolution monitor with 24-bit color (1280 x 1024 recommended)
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 9xxxx, GT, GTX or higher, Quadro® FX or higher is recommended, AMD Radeon™ HD 2000 or higher, Intel HD 2000 or higher (VRAM 256MB more required / 512MB recommended)
- 3D Stereo Display: NVIDIA® 3D Vision™, Polarized 3D monitor
- OpenGL 2.1 or above (Frame Buffer must be support), Recommend OpenGL 3.2 or higher
- *3D Printing Assistant requires Windows Vista SP2 + Internet Explorer 9 or above
Mac OS X
- Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10 (Intel only)*
- 32-bit: Intel Core or newer
- 64-bit: Intel Core 2 Duo or newer
- 2 GB (4 GB recommended)
- 5 GB free hard drive space
- DVD-ROM drive (if installing from DVD), Internet connection environment
- 1,024 x 768 resolution monitor with 24-bit color (1280 x 1024 recommended)
- Mac mini Early 2009 or newer, iMac Mid 2007 or newer, MacBook Air Late 2008 or newer, MacBook / MacBook Pro Late 2008 or newer, Mac Pro (8-core) 2007 or newer
- NVIDIA® GeForce® series or higher is recommended, AMD RADEON™ HD series or later, Intel HD 3000 or higher (VRAM 256MB more required / 512MB recommended)
- 3D Stereo Display: Polarized 3D monitor
- OpenGL 2.1 or above (Frame Buffer must be support), Recommend OpenGL 3.2 or higher
- * Shade 3D ver.14 is not available on Mac OS X 10.6 platform
- * NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ or NVIDIA® 3D Vision Pro™ requires OpenGL 3.2 compatible Quadro graphics card
- * Polarized 3D monitor requires OpenGL 3.2 or higher graphics card
* PoserFusion supports Poser 6/7/8/9/10, Poser Pro 2010/2012/2014 (Windows / Mac OS X)
Because of third party vendor supplied software developer kits only being available in 32 bit versions, a few features are only available when using the application in 64 bit mode.