Shockwave 3D Minimum Playback System Requirements The following system requirements pertain to viewing 3D content with the Shockwave Player. Keep in mind that these are minimum system requirements. Lower-end systems that still meet these requirements will likely perform significantly slower than higher-end systems. Windows: Pentium II 266 MHz (with a current hardware accelerated 3D graphics card) Pentium II-class 300 MHz (without hardware accelerated 3D graphics card) Windows 95 (or newer) DirectX version 5 (or newer) 32MB System RAM for playback 4MB Video RAM for 16-bit usage on hardware accelerated 3D graphics card Browsers: Netscape 4.x, IE 4.x, AOL 4.0 Macintosh: PPC 233 (with a current hardware accelerated 3D graphics card) G3 300 (without hardware accelerated 3D graphics card) OS 8.1 (or newer) Open GL 1.1.2 (or newer) 32MB System RAM for playback 4MB Video RAM for 16-bit usage on hardware accelerated 3D graphics card Browsers: Netscape 4.x, IE 4.5, AOL 4.0 Note: the term "current" as applied to hardware-accelerated 3D graphics cards refers to products released during 1998 or later. Performance varies among graphics cards . These products are often referred to as"second-generation 3D graphics cards." The latest 3D graphics cards make use of features like 32-bit rendering, multi-texturing, alpha-blending (transparency), anti-aliasing, etc. Known issues The following issues have been found while playing shockwave 3D. Firewalls might prevent the shockwave updater from installing the 3D plugin on certain networks. Older versions of Netscape may not play shockwave.