Platform Support

Platforms, operating systems, and processors supported by Altair HyperWorks 2026 products, which includes 2026 solver packages.

Notice: On October 14, 2025, Microsoft Windows 10 reached its end of support. Following Microsoft's messaging, all Altair 2026.0 applications no longer support Windows 10. Altair is providing this information to help our customers accommodate this change. Altair 2026.0 supports the Windows 11 operating system, along with our other Linux-based operating systems. Please contact your local Altair support team if you have any questions or concerns.
Platforms Altair HyperWorks 2026
OS Version Architecture GUI Products Solvers
Windows 11 x86_64 YES YES
Linux RHEL / CIQ Rocky Linux 9.4 x86_64 YES YES
Important: For Linux users, RHEL or CIQ Rocky Linux 9.4 or higher is required to install and run HyperWorks 2026 products.

This change applies only to the HyperWorks 2026 release and future versions. Your existing installations of HyperWorks 2025.1 and earlier will continue to work unchanged on their currently supported operating systems.

For more information, please see this notice on Altair Community.

Note: Linux users must have OpenSSL 3.0 or later installed, as the OpenSSL libraries have been removed from our packaging.
  • *Altair One using Oracle Linux 9.4 is tested and supported, however it is not recommended.
  • RHEL= Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Linux
Altair HyperWorks products may install and run on other non-supported Linux distributions not mentioned or referred to in this documentation, but Altair does not test, certify, verify or warrant the reliability of the products on these platforms.
  • Altair™ products are tested on Gnome Desktop Manager (GDM)
  • Xen kernels are currently not supported kernels for Altair HyperWorks products
  • VirtualGL and other third-party remote visualization tools are not officially supported by Altair HyperWorks products
Ultra High Definition (UHD)
  • Our recommended HD setting is 1080p for FHD and our Ultra HD setting is 2160p.
  • Java based tools within our products may still show some scaling issues under Ultra HD resolution.

Refer to the Hardware Recommendations and Certifications section for details.

Altair HyperWorks Products

  1. Altair® HyperMesh®
  2. Altair® HyperView®
  3. Altair® HyperGraph®
  4. Altair® MotionView®
  5. BatchMesher
  6. Altair® HyperLife®
  7. Altair® HyperMesh® CFD
  8. Altair® HyperMesh ® NVH
  9. Altair® HyperStudy®
  10. Altair® HyperView Player®
  11. Altair® SimLab®
  12. Altair SimSolid® (Windows only)
  13. Altair® Feko®
    • Altair® Feko® Applications
    • Altair® newFASANT™
    • Altair® WinProp™
  14. Altair® Flux®
  15. Altair® Solvers™
    • Altair® OptiStruct®
    • Altair® Radioss®
    • Altair® MotionSolve®
    • Altair® HyperXtrude®
    • Altair® Manufacturing Solver™
    • Altair® Multiscale Designer®
    • Altair® Seam®
    • Altair® HyperLife® Solver
  16. Altair® CFD Solvers™
    • Altair® AcuSolve®
    • Altair® ultraFluidX® (Linux only)
    • Altair® nanoFluidX®
  17. Altair® Twin Activate®
  18. Altair® Compose®
  19. Altair® EDEM™
  20. Altair® Inspire™
  21. Altair® Inspire Cast™ (Windows only)
  22. Altair® Inspire Extrude™ (Windows only)
    • Altair® Inspire™ Extrude Metal
    • Altair® Inspire™ Extrude Polymer
    • Altair® Inspire™ Friction Stir Welding
    • Altair® Inspire™ Resin Transfer Molding
  23. Altair® Inspire Form™ (Windows only)
  24. Altair® Inspire™ Mold (Windows only)
  25. Altair® Inspire™ PolyFoam (Windows only)

Platforms Added in Altair HyperWorks 2026

  1. Windows 11
  2. RHEL / CIQ Rocky Linux 9.4

Platforms Dropped in Altair HyperWorks 2026

  1. Windows 10
  2. SLES 15 SP3
  3. RHEL 8.4

Minimum Operating System Requirements

Notice: On October 14, 2025, Microsoft Windows 10 reached its end of support. Following Microsoft's messaging, all Altair 2026.0 applications no longer support Windows 10. Altair is providing this information to help our customers accommodate this change. Altair 2026.0 supports the Windows 11 operating system, along with our other Linux-based operating systems. Please contact your local Altair support team if you have any questions or concerns.
Table 1.
System/Hardware Information Linux Windows
Operating Systems RHEL 9.4 (64-bit)

CIQ Rocky Linux (64-bit)

 11 (64-bit)
CPU AVX2 support AVX2 support
Memory 16 GB (higher recommended) 16 GB (higher recommended)
Complete Install Disk Space

~8 GB temporary disk space required for full Altair HyperWorks 2026 installation

 Applications

72 GB

 Help

12 GB

 Applications

110 GB

 Help

12 GB
Graphics Hardware 2 OpenGL 3D graphics accelerator compatible with OpenGL 3.3 or higher

Vulkan 1.2 or higher

OpenCL 2.1 required

True color (24-bit) support

Install/update to most recent OpenGL patches/drivers

1920x1080 screen resolution or higher for optimal user experience

4 GB or higher dedicated RAM

Only dedicated NVIDIA GPUs are supported (AMD, Intel® Arc™, and integrated onboard Intel chipsets are not supported)

 OpenGL 3D graphics accelerator compatible with OpenGL 3.3 or higher

Vulkan 1.2 or higher

OpenCL 2.1 required

True color (24-bit) support

Install/update to most recent OpenGL patches/drivers

1920x1080 screen resolution or higher for optimal user experience

4 GB or higher dedicated RAM

Only dedicated AMD, Intel® Arc™, and NVIDIA GPUs are supported (integrated onboard Intel chipsets are not supported)

Linux System Requirements

Run the HyperWorks compatibility tool to validate your Linux compatibility with Altair HyperWorks products.

Note: In order to run the compatibility tool, you need to have an hwdesktop Linux installer fully installed.
To run the tool:
  1. Navigate to <installtion_path>/hwdesktop/utility/HWCompatibilityTool.
  2. Run ./diag_tool.sh.

    On systems with a window manager (GUI), you can run the tool with the -gui option and get a point and click interface.

    The output is an overview of system, compiler, and graphics information as well as a test audit of the packages required by Altair HyperWorks.

1 Local help installations may require modifying the browser to allow running active content from the hard disk. For search capability, the users should have a browser supporting either ActiveX (IE on Windows) or Java Environment plugin installed on their machine.
2 Altair HyperWorks Graphical User Interface (GUI) products, when used with Ultra High Definition (UHD) displays consisting of 1920x1200 or higher (for example, 3200x1800, 3840x2160 or 4096x2160), may result in graphical problems. Some GUI items may not be displayed correctly, some functionality such as image captures may not capture images correctly, and window selection may become an issue. Altair HyperWorks 2026 does not officially support these high screen resolutions. We suggest setting your resolution to 1920x1200 or lower to resolve or minimize these types of issues from occurring. Our development teams are aware of these problems and are working closely with the hardware vendors to find a quick resolution.