Overview
Please make sure that your system fulfills the following requirements before installing V-Ray. Check the Nuke system requirements on The Foundry website for additional information.
Windows
Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit versions of Nuke.
| Processor | 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
| RAM | 4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
| USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| GPU Support | Maxwell-, Pascal-, Turing-, or Volta-based NVIDIA card(s) with latest video driver or at least version 441.28 The minimum required compute capability is 5.2*. |
* CUDA compute capability and card reference
The following table shows the versions of The Foundry Nuke and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported.
| Version of Nuke | Supported Operating System |
Nuke 10 64-bit | Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8 |
| Nuke 10.5 64-bit | Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8 |
| Nuke 11 64-bit | Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 10 |
| Nuke 11.1 64-bit | Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 10 |
| Nuke 11.2 64-bit | Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 10 |
| Nuke 11.3 64-bit | Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 10 |
Linux
Processor | 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
| RAM | 4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
| USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| GPU Support | Maxwell-, Pascal-, Turing-, or Volta-based NVIDIA card(s) with latest video driver or at least 440.36 The minimum required compute capability is 5.2* . |
* CUDA compute capability and card reference
The following table shows the versions of The Foundry Nuke and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported.
| Version of Nuke | Supported Operating System |
Nuke 10 64-bitt | Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6 WS, or CentOS 6 (64-bit) or newer |
Nuke 10.5 64-bit | Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6 WS, or CentOS 6 (64-bit) or newer |
| Nuke 11 64-bit | CentOS 6 (64-bit) or CentOS 7 (64-bit) |
| Nuke 11.1 64-bit | CentOS 6 (64-bit) or CentOS 7 (64-bit) |
| Nuke 11.2 64-bit | CentOS 6 (64-bit) or CentOS 7 (64-bit) |
| Nuke 11.3 64-bit | CentOS 6 (64-bit) or CentOS 7 (64-bit) |