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This page provides information on what hardware and operating systems are required for V-Ray to work properly. 


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Make sure to always have the latest Cinema 4D updates installed.


Windows

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Processor
1st Gen Intel® Core™

Intel1 64, AMD64 or compatible processor

with 

with SSE4.2

 support (x64)

support

RAM8 GB RAM or 8 GB swap minimum – recommended 64 GB RAM or more;
(Actual amount required will vary with scene requirements.)
Operating systemMicrosoft®
 Windows
Windows®
 8
8.1, Windows 10, or Windows
10
11 operating system
TCP/IPOnly
IPv4 
IPv4 required for distributed
rendering 
rendering is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported
GPU Acceleration

NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta-

and 

, Turing- and Ampere-based NVIDIA card(s)

with with 

 with latest recommended video driver

 or at least version 441.20

;

NVIDIA RTX: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver

 or at least version 441.28

;

V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2;

NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing or

Turing

Ampere-based NVIDIA card with latest recommended video driver

 or at least version 441.20 

The minimum required compute capability is 5.2

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License Server5.5.0 or later

 

 

macOS

 

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The following table shows the versions of Cinema 4D and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64-bit operating systems.

Version of Cinema 4DSupported Operating System
R21Windows ® 8.1, Windows ® 10 Professional and Windows ® 11
S22Windows ® 8.1, Windows ® 10 Professional and Windows ® 11
R23Windows ® 8.1, Windows ® 10 Professional and Windows ® 11
S24Windows ® 8.1, Windows ® 10 Professional and Windows ® 11
R25Windows ® 10 Professional and Windows ® 11
S26

Windows ® 10 Professional and Windows ® 11

Cinema 4D 2023Windows ® 10 Professional and Windows ® 11
Cinema 4D 2024Windows ® 10 Professional and Windows ® 11

macOS

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Processor

Intel 64, AMD64, ARM3 or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support

RAM8 GB RAM or 8 GB swap minimum – recommended 64 GB RAM or more;
(Actual amount required will vary with scene requirements.)
Operating systemApple ® macOS ® X 10.14 or later
TCP/IPOnly IPv4 required for distributed rendering is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported
License Server5.5.0 or later
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OpenCL with both AMD and Nvidia cards is not supported with V-Ray for Cinema 4D on macOS.


The following table shows the versions of Cinema 4D and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64-bit operating systems. 

Version of Cinema 4D

Supported Operating Systems

R21Apple ® macOS ® X 10.14 or later
S22Apple ® macOS ® X 10.14 or later
R23Apple ® macOS ® X 10.14 or later
S24Apple ® macOS ® X 10.14 or later
R25Apple ® macOS ® X 10.14 or later
S26Apple ® macOS 10.15.7 or higher
Cinema 4D 2023Apple ® macOS 10.15.7 or higher
Cinema 4D 2024Apple ® macOS 11.7.7 or higher

Notes

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Windows 11 is required for running Intel Alder Lake processors.

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– CUDA compute capability and card reference

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V-Ray Node space is available in Cinema 4D versions 21.1 and later!

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– V-Ray 5, update 2 for Cinema 4D is supported on macOS machines with ARM architecture. Note that Intel Denoiser is not supported with universal builds of V-Ray. If you are using universal builds with ARM architecture, make sure to turn off Rosetta. See this video for additional information.

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