System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

A machine running one of the following supported operating systems:

• macOS: 10.6 or greater
• Windows: 8.1 or greater
• GNU/Linux 3.10 or greater, requires X11, glibc 2.17+ and libgcc 4.8+

Minimum required hardware

• 3 GB of RAM (16 GB or more recommended)
• 5 GB of free disk space for caching and temporary files (10 GB or more recommended)
• Display with a resolution of at least 1280×1024

Supported Graphics Processors

An OpenGL 2.0 compatible graphics card is needed to run Natron with hardware accelerated GPU rendering. To run without an OpenGL compatible graphics card you must enable software rendering. On Linux, enable the environment variable LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 before running Natron. On Windows, enable the legacy hardware package in the installer.

The following graphics cards are supported for hardware-accelerated rendering:

• Intel GMA 3150 (Linux only)
• Intel GMA X3xxx (Linux only)
• Intel GMA X4xxx (Windows & Linux)
• Intel HD (Ironlake) (Windows & Linux)
• Intel HD 2000 & 3000 (Sandy Bridge) (Windows, Linux, macOS)
• Intel HD 4000 and greater (All Platforms)
• Nvidia GeForce 6 series and greater
• Nvidia Quadro FX and greater
• Nvidia Quadro NVS 285 and greater
• ATI/AMD Radeon R300 and greater
• ATI/AMD FireGL T2-64 and greater (FirePro)