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Substance 3D Stager

Substance 3D Stager

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  1. Substance 3D home
  2. Home
  3. Getting Started
    1. Activation and licenses
    2. Stager on Steam
    3. System requirements
    4. Accessibility
    5. Glossary
    6. Viewport navigation
    7. Supported formats
      1. Import & export formats
      2. Preparing models for use in Stager
      3. Importing CAD data
      4. End of support for Substance models
  4. Interface
    1. Interface overview
    2. Shortcuts
    3. Menus
    4. Viewport
    5. Assets panel
    6. Project materials panel
    7. Scene panel
    8. Actions and Properties panels
    9. Timeline panel
    10. Tools
      1. Tools overview
      2. Select tools
      3. Camera tools
      4. Environment Lighting tool
      5. Shape tools
      6. Sampler tool
      7. Magic Wand tool
      8. Canvas tools
  5. Objects
    1. Objects overview
    2. Standard models
    3. 3D Text
    4. Shapes
    5. Group
    6. Materials
    7. Camera
    8. Environment
    9. Physical lights
  6. Using Stager
    1. Stage 3D scenes
    2. Arrange objects
    3. Work with lights
    4. Render 3D scenes
    5. Add materials and textures
  7. Features
    1. Connected apps
    2. Coordinate system
    3. Snapping system
    4. Align and Distribute
    5. Collision based transformation
    6. Rendering system
    7. Apply images to models
    8. Material displacement
    9. Material projections
    10. Match Image
    11. Animation presets
    12. Publish scenes to the web
    13. Generative background
  8. Common issues
    1. GPU rendering is disabled
    2. Stager viewport is blank
    3. Stuck on splash screen
  9. Release notes
    1. All changes
    2. Version 3.1.0
    3. Version 3.0.0
    4. Version 2.1.0
    5. Version 2.0.0
    6. Version 1.3.0
    7. Version 1.2.0
    8. Version 1.1.0
    9. Version 1.0.0

Substance 3D Stager is a 3D application that is best used on a desktop machine with dedicated graphics cards. This page will cover the full minimum, recommended, and optimal hardware for using Stager.

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Supported systems

Apple ARM (M1) support

Unsupported configurations

Supported GPU details

Languages

Supported systems

Windows

Minimum

Recommended

Optimal

OS

Windows 10 64-bit

Version 22H2

Windows 11 64-bit

Version 21H2

Windows 11 64-bit

Version 22H2

CPU

Intel Core i5

AMD Ryzen 5

Intel Core i7

AMD Ryzen 7

Intel Core i9

AMD Ryzen 9

GPU

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

AMD Radeon Pro W5700

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA Quadro RTX A4000

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

AMD Radeon Pro W7700

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Ada Generation

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

AMD Radeon Pro W7800

VRAM

8 GB

16 GB

24 GB

RAM

16 GB

32 GB

64 GB

Storage

SSD with 30 GB of available space

SSD with 50 GB of available space

SSD with 70 GB of available space

macos

Minimum

Recommended

Optimal

OS

macOS 12 Monterey

macOS 13 Ventura

macOS 14 Sonoma

CPU

Intel Core i9

Apple M1 Pro

Apple M2 Pro

GPU

AMD Radeon Pro 5600M

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

RAM

16 GB

32 GB

64 GB

Storage

SSD with 30 GB of available space

SSD with 50 GB of available space

SSD with 70 GB of available space
Tip:

For working in comfortable conditions we recommend a monitor with a resolution greater than 1 Mega Pixels and wider than 1280 pixels.

Apple ARM (M1) support

Stager supports Apple ARM (M1) devices in emulation mode only. Emulation mode may impact the performance of the application.

We do not currently have a release date for native support.

Unsupported configurations

All

  • Remote desktop is not supported

Windows

  • Virtual machine are not supported.
  • Windows Server is not supported.

Mac

  • Only official Apple configurations are supported.
  • eGPUs are not currently supported and may have stability issues.

Supported GPU details

Please note that the above GPU requirements are general. Because of the vast amount of devices that exist, Adobe is unable to test all hardware. This specific list of hardware is added as we test specific devices while the above requirements are general.

Below is a list of the GPU models compatible with the application:

  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 and above
  • NVIDIA Quadro P2200 and above
  • AMD Radeon RX 580 and above
  • AMD Radeon Pro 5300 M
Note:

There is currently a known issue with AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs that stops Stager working correctly. We are working with AMD to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

GPU Rendering

GPU rendering is only available on Windows with NVIDIA graphics cards.

Tip:

If GPU ray tracing is not available on a supported NVIDIA card, first update the video card drivers.

For laptops which also include an integrated graphics card, use the NVIDIA Control Panel to set the preferred graphics card to the discrete card.

Below is a list of the GPU models that have been tested and explicitly do not work with Stagers GPU rendering

  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

Minimum GPU Drivers Versions

Below is a list of the minimum GPU drivers version required for the application to run without issues. This list may be subject to changes as new versions release.

OS

NVIDIA

AMD

Intel

Windows

GeForce 442.50

Quadro 442.50

Radeon 19.7.1

Radeon Pro / FirePro 18.Q4

15.33
Note:

On macOS systems, the GPU driver is provided by the operating system itself. Update to the latest version of your OS to access the newest driver.

Languages

The software interface is available in the following languages:

  • Deutsch
  • English
  • Español
  • Français
  • Italiano
  • Português (Brasil)
  • 日本語
  • 한국어
  • 简体中文

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