Requirements

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

Hardware Requirements

	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system	Windows 10 64-bit	Windows 11 64-bit
Processor	2 GHz	Quad-core, 2.5 GHz or faster
RAM	4 GB	8 GB
Hard drive space	1 GB	5 GB (SSD)
GPU	1 GB, DirectX 11 compatible GPU	8 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.

Windows Software Requirements

Flax Engine requires Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 (or newer) to be installed on Windows in order to start. Both the x86 and x64 versions of the redistributable are required, even on 64-bit Windows. 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.

Flax Editor requires .NET SDK 10.

We also recommend using Visual Studio 2026 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
• Intel drivers

For information about supported platforms, see Platforms.