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Autodesk Maya 2012

Autodesk® Maya® 2012 software delivers powerful new toolsets for previsualization and games prototyping; offers extended simulation capabilities; and better pipeline integration.

 

System Requirements

To run software at an optimal level, your computer hardware configuration will have to meet the minimal list of requirements. See this list of qualified hardware and systems requirements that are necessary to run your software application.

 

For 32-bit Autodesk Maya 2011

Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional operating system
Microsoft® Windows® Vista® Business (SP2 or higher)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3 or higher)
Procesor: Intel® Pentium® 4 or higher, AMD Athlon 64, or AMD Opteron processor, AMD Phenom processor

Apple® Mac OS® X 10.6.2 operating system
Macintosh® computer: Intel-based Macintosh computers

  • 2 GB RAM
  • 4 GB free hard drive space
  • Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
  • Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • Maya Composite functionality media cache requirements for playback:
    • 10 GB minimum, 200 GB recommended
    • HDD: IDE, SATA, SATA 2, SAS, SCSI
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or higher, Apple® Safari® or Mozilla® Firefox® web browser

For 64-bit Autodesk Maya 2011

Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional operating system
Microsoft® Windows® Vista® Business (SP2 or higher)
Microsoft® Windows® XP x64 Professional (SP2 or higher)
Procesor: Intel® EM64T, AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron processor or AMD Phenom processor

Apple® Mac OS® X 10.6.2 operating system
Macintosh® computer: Intel-based Macintosh computers

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.4 WS or Fedora 11 operating system
Procesor: Intel® EM64T, AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron processor or AMD Phenom processor

  • 2 GB RAM
  • 4 GB free hard drive space
  • Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
  • Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • Maya Composite functionality media cache requirements for playback:
    • 10 GB minimum, 200 GB recommended
    • HDD: IDE, SATA, SATA 2, SAS, SCSI
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or higher, Apple® Safari® or Mozilla® Firefox® web browser

Note

Maya 2011 is also capable of running on other configurations such as boutique distributions of Linux. However, enumerating systems that are not tested and cannot be supported or that fall below the requirements for a productive user experience is beyond the scope of the online qualification charts.