Find information on the latest required Windows and Linux drivers, minimum requirements for VR/XR runtimes, VRED Core updates, and installation changes.
For Windows users, the minimum NVIDIA driver required is v.536.67 or above for RGB raytracing and v.551.23 for spectral raytracing. To use DLSS RR, you will need the NVIDIA driver v.537.13 or above; otherwise, VRED will default to the DLSS from version 2024.1.
For Linux users, the minimum NVIDIA driver required is v.535.86 or above for RGB raytracing and v.550.54 for spectral raytracing. To use DLSS RR, you will need the NVIDIA driver v.535.104 or above; otherwise, VRED will default to the DLSS from version 2024.1.
For VR/XR, the minimum requirements regarding runtimes are the following:
For VRED Core on Linux, as of 2025, the package, xcb-util-cursor, is a mandatory dependency. This is a prerequisite for any Qt 6.5 application to run on RedHat 8 or RedHat 9. The Qt libraries cannot be loaded without it and the following warning will appear if it is missing, "QtWarning: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin".
A bootstrap file can be downloaded from Accounts after a user has made a selection regarding what and how to install (i.e., Download install or Custom install).
To find a list of the latest file formats and versions supported by VRED, see VRED Supported File Formats.
To find what was added and changed in the VRED Python API v2 for each release, see What's New in Python API V1 and V2.
If working on a Linux machine, set your local directory to /var/opt/Autodesk with write access on the Linux machine that is running the VRED 2025.1 Render Node.