System Requirements

Official specifications for Ryzom:

Minimum System Specification

• Windows 98SE/2000/XP/Vista/7
• Pentium III 1Ghz or equivalent
• 512 MB RAM
• Nvidia Geforce 2 or equivalent video card with 64 MB RAM
• 4x CD-Rom drive or higher¹
• 7 Gb free Hard Disk Space
• Internet connection with 56k Modem
• Keyboard and mouse
• DirectX 8 compatible Sound Card

Recommended System Specification

• Windows 98SE/2000/XP/Vista/7
• Pentium IV / Celeron 2Ghz or equivalent
• 1024 MB RAM
• Nvidia GeForce 4 TI or equivalent, with 128 MB RAM
• 4x CD-Rom drive or higher¹
• 7 Gb free Hard Disk Space
• Internet connection with 56k Modem
• Keyboard and mouse
• DirectX 8 compatible Sound Card

¹Required only for installation of boxed versions of the game. Boxed versions' client will most likely be incompatible and will require a special patch.

Support

For help with problems running the game when your system meets the above system requirements, look at the official support site, where you can also ask for help from a support representative if you cannot find a solution to your problem in the support forums.

Command line arguments

Command line arguments are startup parameters that can be used to alter the game's behavior. For a complete list and instructions on how to use these see command line arguments.

Languages

Ryzom currently supports four different languages; English, German, French and Russian. As of patch Patch 1.8.0 the client fully supports the Cyrillic alphabet. There were mentions in an official newsletter of Spanish to be added in future patches.

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At each patch, we applied a lot of corrections on the texts in all 3 languages. The ring has also been fully translated into 3 languages. We plan to launch Ryzom in Russian and Spanish in 2010.

  Official Newsletter

Running the game on unsupported systems

Warning: Running Ryzom on other operating systems is completely unsupported by Winch Gate Pty Ltd.. Use at your own risk as support may not always be able to help you.

Unsupported operating systems

Linux (any variation)

It is recommended to use a Debian based System such as Ubuntu, however any other distribution should work. To install the Client on Ubuntu, follow this guide http://dev.ryzom.com/projects/ryzom/wiki/LinuxBinaries

To manually install the Client and precompiled binaries, follow this guide http://dev.ryzom.com/projects/ryzom/wiki/OfficialRyzomClientLinux

It is also possible to download the source and build your own binaries, see this page for details http://dev.ryzom.com/projects/ryzom/wiki/BuildForLinuxCmake

Apple

It is also possible to play Ryzom on Apple systems.

For Macbook:
Basically you just need to split your hard-drive into two partitions and use one to run Apple OS and the other to run Windows XP; following bootcamp's instructions to install Windows XP on the second partition. After XP has been installed, you hold OPTION/ALT during start up to select the hard-drive you want to boot, select the Windows hard-drive. Download and install Ryzom. Depending on your hardware configuration you might need to change to Direct3d or OpenGL (You can make this selection in Ryzom Configurations.)