LightWave 3D®
New LightWave 2024 Licence Including 2025 Upgrade
Once your purchase is complete, you will receive an email with purchase details. Within 24 hours your download link will be available in your account at Lightwave3d.com. LightWave 2025 will automatically be added to your account once it is released in Q1 2025.
To avoid any delays of the software, please ensure the email used to purchase matches the email address on your account at lightwave3d.com
This link outlines the steps for accessing and downloading your software:
https://lightwave3d.com/information-pages/installation-walkthrough-guide/
All licenses include both PC and Mac versions.
Minimum system requirements:
PC
Hardware
- Intel® Core™ 2 or AMD64 with SSE4 instruction set (Bulldozer onwards)
- System RAM: 4 GB minimum
Operating System
- Windows 10 64-bit or better
Display Requirements:
Minimum Graphics Card
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 9 series or ATI Radeon HD 4000 series (minimum)
Minimum Screen Resolution
- 1280 x 1024 pixels
Recommended Graphics card
- GeForce 10 series or newer at 1920 x 1080 or better
Minimum OS requirement:
For Intel, it's MacOS 10.15 (Catalina). For Apple Silicon, it's macOS 11 (Big Sur). User's wishing to utilise the Octane renderer will require MacOS 13.3 (Ventura) or better. Minimum storage required1.1 GB
Installation Requirements
All systems require 750MB available hard drive space (excluding content); complete Content library is approximately 3GB.
Shipping
Once your purchase is complete, you will receive an email notification that will detail your download instructions.