This page provides information on what hardware and operating systems are required for V-Ray to work properly.
New VFB is available in 3ds Max 2018 or later. Older 3ds Max versions only support the previous V-Ray VFB.
Requirements
The requirements listed here are for the latest version of V-Ray in 3ds Max.
Please make sure that your system meets the requirements listed below before installing V-Ray.
| Processor | 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
| RAM | Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 64 GB RAM |
| Operating system | Microsoft® Windows® 8.1 or Windows 10 operating system |
| Autodesk® 3ds Max | 3ds Max® 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 (64-bit)* |
| USB port | Required for customers using legacy hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 required for distributed rendering is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported. |
| License Server | 5.5.0 or later |
| GPU Acceleration | NVIDIA CUDA with minimum required compute capability 5.2**: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s) with latest video driver or at least version 442.54; NVIDIA RTX with compute capability 5.2*: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver or version 442.54; 2GB VRAM V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2; NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta or Turing-based NVIDIA card with driver version 441.28 |
* V-Ray 5 officially supports 3ds Max 2018-2022. We do provide installation builds for 3ds Max 2016-2017 and they should work as expected; however, support for these versions is unofficial as we cannot test V-Ray under versions prior to 3ds Max 2018, due to Autodesk licensing restrictions.