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# Hardware Requirements

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Malt requires hardware with OpenGL 4.1 support
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| GPUs                                  | User Experince Quality | Remarks                                                                                                           |
| ------------------------------------- | ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| <p></p><p>Nvidia GPUs</p>             | <p></p><p>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ </p>   | excellent, top quality openGL driver                                                                              |
| <p></p><p>AMD GPUs</p>                | <p></p><p>⭐⭐⭐⭐</p>     | <p></p><p>can be buggy depending on your GPU</p>                                                                  |
| <p></p><p>Intel GPUs (integrated)</p> | <p></p><p>😡</p>       | <p></p><p>poor, too under powered, slow & small VRAM, too many gpu with old drivers not supporting OpenGL 4.1</p> |
| <p></p><p>Intel XE</p>                | <p></p><p>Unknown</p>  | --                                                                                                                |
| Apple M1                              | 😡                     | The default pipeline is not supported on the M1                                                                   |

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If the viewport display correctly, but laggy, you still can [speed up the viewport performance](/beer-malt-wiki/tips/speed-up-malt.md#setting-shadowmap-resolution-to-fit-your-vram).
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**Note:** The status of these hardware user experience will shift with new development. We will update this page from time to time.


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