System requirements

Here are the system requirements for the Dungeons & Dragons Online game client.


 * Due to potential game changes, the Minimum System Requirements for this game may change over time.
 * Please be sure to take a look at Turbine's latest official information here.

The game client has a low- and high-resolution version, which will affect the quality of graphics and gameplay.

Minimum System Requirements

 * O.S.: Windows® XP
 * Processor: P4 1.6 GHz or AMD equivalent with SSE
 * Memory: 1 GB RAM
 * Graphics Card: 64 MB Hardware T&L -compatible video card
 * DirectX: DirectX® 9.0c
 * Disc Space: 11GB available
 * Network Connection: Broadband Internet connection

Recommended System Requirements

 * O.S.: Windows® System XP SP2/XP64/Vista/Vista64/7** OS (with the latest Service Packs or updates)
 * Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD equivalent with SSE
 * Memory: 1 GB RAM, 2GB RAM for high resolution textures
 * Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® FX 5900 or ATI Radeon™ 9600 with 128MB or better
 * DirectX: DirectX® 9.0c
 * Disc Space: 11 GB available, 15 GB available for high resolution textures
 * Network Connection: Broadband Internet connection

Recommended System Requirements for High Resolution Version

 * O.S.: Windows® System Vista64/Windows 7
 * Processor: Dual-core processor, such as the Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2
 * Memory: 2 GB RAM
 * Graphics Card: 256 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600 or ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 or better
 * DirectX: DirectX® 10 or DirectX® 11
 * Disc Space: 15 GB available
 * Network Connection: Cable or Fiber high-speed Broadband Internet connection

Support for Other Computers and Operating Systems
The DDO game client is a Windows operating system application that cannot natively operate in Apple's Mac OS X or in other Unix or Linux operating systems.

The DDO game client does operate on Apple computer hardware with Intel processors, using the Boot Camp feature, which allows a native installation of Windows XP Service Pack 2 or newer Windows version to a Mac OS X disk partition as a bootable drive. The Mac will boot Windows and have full access to the computer's hardware to the extent supported by the Boot Camp native Windows drivers. As many Macs come with higher-than-average processor speeds and video chips, this makes for a strong gaming option, especially for the MacBook Pro notebook lines. Users of iMacs with large video displays of 21, 24 and 27 inches also benefit from stronger video cards and higher graphics and resolutions.

For very powerful Macs, the use of virtualizing applications that run Windows as an application within Mac OS X, such as Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion might allow DDO to run concurrently while Mac OS X operates in the background.

As DDO requires an Intel processor family chip to operate, older emulators such as Virtual PC, running on PowerPC-equipped Macs, will not work. Older Intel-powered Macs that use non-3D video chips (such as the Intel Integrated Graphics chips) will have insufficient strength, be incompatible with DirectX or render graphics very poorly.

Linux users may opt to try Wine a virtualizing software that allows many Windows applications to operate in the UNIX-like operating system.