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Recommended and Required Hardware for Unreal Development

Recommended and Required Hardware for Unreal Development

Guide to Buying Computers for Unreal Development

Minimum PC Requirements for Users

Windows XP with DirectX 9.0c
A graphics card with shader model 3.0 support.

Minimum PC Hardware Requirements for Developers

Windows XP with DirectX 9.0c
2GHz or better CPU
2+ GB RAM
A graphics card with Shader Model 3.0 support, such as nVidia GeForce 7800

Recommended PC Hardware Specs for Developers

Windows 7 64bit with DirectX 11
2.4 GHz or better dual-core (or quad-core) CPU
2+ GB of RAM
A PCI Express graphics card with Shader Model 3.0 support, such as nVidia GeForce 7800
2 monitors @ 1600x1200 or better

NOTE: Dual processor configurations are very useful if you are working on networking code, so you can run a server and client at a good speed on the same computer.

Graphics Card Drivers

We currently recommend using the latest stable releases from each card manufacturer:

64-Bit Performance

Developers at Epic are running Windows 7 64-Bit as their primary development OS. The biggest benefit is having more than 4GB of RAM as it speeds up iteration time immensely as you are no longer just constantly swapping to disk.

For programmers, the most obvious benefits will be in:

Compile UnrealScript

Run editor; run 1-2 copies of the game