System requirements

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

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

Minimum System Requirements

 * Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz or compatible (must support SSE)
 * Video Card: GeForce 2, GeForce 4 MX or Radeon VE
 * RAM: 512 MB or more
 * Disk Space: 3GB
 * DirectX: DX9c+
 * OS: Windows XP Home or Professional

Recommended System Requirements

 * Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or compatible (must support SSE)
 * Video Card: GeForce FX 5200+ or Radeon 9800 Pro
 * RAM: 512 MB or more
 * Disk Space: 3GB
 * DirectX: DX9c+
 * OS: Windows XP Home and Professional

Minimum System Requirements for High Resolution Version

 * Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or compatible (must support SSE)
 * Video Card: Radeon X800 or GeForce 6 6800 GT w/ 256MB video RAM
 * RAM: 1 GB or more
 * Disk Space: 5GB
 * DirectX: DX9c+
 * OS: Windows XP Home or Professional

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.