System Recommendations

Cinegize was designed with the express goal of meeting exacting quality capabilities and, at the same time, having a minimal impact on the host. Using the massively parallel Daniel2 codec allows ideal optimization running on GPU as well as modern multi-core CPUs with features such as AVX. Since any desktop remoting software is not an end goal alone, keeping the load added by this function as small as possible is a critical benefit of Cinegize.

Software Only

Cinegize is intended to work on 64-bit versions of Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022.

Cinegize can run on machines equipped with any modern GPU from AMD, NVIDIA, or Intel.

No additional hardware is 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 updating the NVIDIA drivers only upon stopping Cinegy applications. For detailed instructions on installing an 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 1 Gbps speed for up to UHD60 4:4:4 mode.

Note
 8K (7680x4320) resolutions at high-quality mode require 5 Gbps or higher network speeds.

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 also runs without GPU acceleration, creating minimum CPU load.

Disclaimer

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

No Damage

Caution
 Cinegy refuses any responsibility for any damages resulting from the use of Cinegize. For the avoidance of any doubt, Cinegy refuses any liability for any damage resulting from the use of its Cinegize beta software.