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[[FreeOrion]] does not yet have official system requirements, and what it currently needs is highly likely to fluctuate throughout the development.
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See [https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/blob/master/README.md the README] for the latest system requirements.
  
As a rough guideline, the game uses [[OpenGL]], meaning you should have at least a 3d accelerator card. A screen resolution of 1024x768 or larger is very strongly reccomended, though the game can be run, awkwardly, at lower resolutions.
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As of [https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/releases/tag/v0.4.8 v.0.4.8], FreeOrion requires an OpenGL 2.1 capable graphic card and a display with a minimum resolution of at least 800x600.
  
If you have experience running it on a particular system and thought it was a bit slow, please write your requirements here so we can consolidate them into some guideline of reasonable specifications.
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FreeOrion requires at least Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or later, Mac OSX 10.9 or later or any reasonably recent Linux distribution on x86 compatible processors. Other operating systems and architectures have reported to be working by users, but are not actively supported by the FreeOrion project.
  
Operating system you will currently need either Linux or Windows. A MacOSX port is underway; ports to other systems are plausible but require developers from them to put in the time to see it ported.
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Systems with less than 4 GB RAM may have issues saving and loading games with large galaxies that have been played for > 400 turns.
 
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Currently FO is reported to ''run'' on a 667MHz machine with 128MB internal memory. This, however, did not constitute for a good playing experience. You want to have more.
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Latest revision as of 10:27, 26 January 2019

See the README for the latest system requirements.

As of v.0.4.8, FreeOrion requires an OpenGL 2.1 capable graphic card and a display with a minimum resolution of at least 800x600.

FreeOrion requires at least Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or later, Mac OSX 10.9 or later or any reasonably recent Linux distribution on x86 compatible processors. Other operating systems and architectures have reported to be working by users, but are not actively supported by the FreeOrion project.

Systems with less than 4 GB RAM may have issues saving and loading games with large galaxies that have been played for > 400 turns.