Requirements

Flax Engine has specific hardware and software requirements for running the game or developing with the engine.

Hardware Requirements

	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system	Windows Vista SP1	Windows 10 64-bit
Processor	2 GHz	Quad-core, 2.5 GHz or faster
RAM	4 GB	8 GB
Hard drive space	1 GB	5 GB
GPU	512MB, DirectX 10+ compatible GPU	2 GB, DirectX 11

Linux

For developers using Flax Editor on Linux platforms the requirements are here.

Mac

For developers using Flax Editor on Mac platforms the requirements are here.

Software Requirements

Flax Engine requires Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (or newer) to be installed on Windows in order to start. The launcher will check and begin installation if it is missing, however if your game is targeting the Windows platform you should include the redistributable installer with it. You can download it here.

Flax Launcher requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 or higher.

We also recommend using Visual Studio 2019 or 2022 for writing code. You can download the free community edition here.

GPU Drivers

Please ensure that you have the latest GPU drivers installed:

• NVIDIA drivers
• AMD drivers

For information about supported platforms, see Platforms.