7.3.7.2 - Arnold User Guide

22 May 2025

This is a bug-fix release. For the full list of features in Arnold 7.3.7, see the Arnold 7.3.7.0 release notes.

Bug Fixes

• ARNOLD-16044 - Arnold GPU IPR crash when modifying a shape parameter
• ARNOLD-15888 - USD crash when reading an invalid USD file

System Requirements

• Windows 10 or later, with the Visual Studio 2019 redistributable.
• Linux with at least glibc 2.17 and libstdc++ 4.8.5 (gcc 4.8.5). This is equivalent to RHEL/CentOS 7.
• macOS 10.13 or later.
• x86-64 CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set. Apple Mac models with M series chips are natively supported.
• GPU rendering and OptiX denoising work on Windows and Linux only, and require an NVIDIA GPU with the Maxwell architecture or later.
  • On Linux, we recommend 560.35.03 or higher drivers.
  • On Windows, we recommend 560.76 or higher drivers.
• Intel OIDN GPU support is limited to:
  • MacOS
    • Apple native CPUs (M1 and newer)
  • Windows
    • Intel Xe dedicated and integrated GPUs
    • NVIDIA GPUs using Turing or newer architectures
    • AMD GPUs with RDNA2 (Navi 21 only) and RDNA3 (Navi 3x) architectures