System Recommendations

No additional hardware needed – just the power of your graphics card, preferably a recent NVIDIA card. On the client side, an integrated graphics card will do.

The minimal supported NVIDIA driver version is 456.81. We recommend that you perform the process of NVIDIA drivers update only upon stopping Cinegy applications. For detailed instructions on installing NVIDIA driver, please refer to the NVIDIA Drivers installation article.

Daniel2 GPU encoding and decoding are supported by NVIDIA video boards that have CUDA Compute Capability 3.5 and higher. If the NVIDIA video board has the CUDA Compute Capability of an earlier version, then use Daniel2 CPU encoding and decoding.

The required hardware largely depends on the video resolution to be played back at each machine running Cinegize.

Video is transmitted with light-weight compression including rapid error recovery, offering a bandwidth efficiency of up to 20:1 compared to uncompressed. Cinegize requires a cabled LAN connection between sender and receiver with minimal network packet loss, operating at 1Gbps speed for up to UHD60 4:4:4 mode.

Cinegize utilizes the GPU to compress or decompress in real time the video output where it is created, thus offloading the CPU.

The minimum requirements to install and/or run are Windows 10 64-bit (Enterprise, Home, or Pro), 4GB of RAM, a suitable CPU (dependent upon the host resolution and quality intended for transmission), and preferably a recent NVIDIA graphics card, which can be used to offload the encoding or decoding using NVIDIA’s CUDA.

Users of NVIDIA Quadro GPUs can benefit from the NVIDIA Capture SDK (NVFBC) features available, allowing a further reduced host PC load.

Cinegize runs also without GPU acceleration creating minimum CPU load.

Cinegize is currently an early beta version, and access is currently provided at no cost pending release. This release is not meant for production use but only for evaluation and demonstration purposes.