System Requirements

Naev has relatively modest requirements. There are also several in-game options to limit resource usage, accessible via the options menu.

=System Requirements=

Minimum Hardware

 * Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X or Windows.
 * Pentium III class processor or equivalent.
 * 512 MB of free RAM.
 * 350 MB of free disk space.
 * OpenGL 1.1 or later compatible video card.

Recommended Hardware

 * Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X or Windows.
 * Pentium IV class processor or equivalent.
 * 1 GB of free RAM.
 * 512 MB of video memory
 * 350 MB of free disk space.
 * ATI r3xx or equivalent.

=Dependencies=

For Windows and Mac OS X users, our releases contain all necessary dependencies. Only users running Linux or other operating systems need to locate dependencies themselves.

The Naev dependencies are meant to be quite common on most systems. They are:


 * SDL 1.2 (or newer)
 * SDL_image
 * SDL_mixer
 * OpenGL
 * libxml 2
 * Freetype 2
 * libpng 1.2 (or newer)
 * OpenAL
 * libvorbis
 * binutils
 * libzip

For distribution-specific package names, see Compiling Nix.