Users are highly discouraged from using the documentation and tutorials for Gazebo on this page. Gazebo is now a stand alone project at gazebosim.org. See documentation there, thanks!

  • /!\ Disclaimer: work in progress, this section is is by no means a correct, complete nor deterministic reference. It is only a reference at the time of writing and is probably outdated constantly. If your graphics card is untested, it may or may not work with Gazebo/Ogre. When in doubt, please check with the ros-users mailing list or contact the authors.

Graphics Card Requirements

Please note that Gazebo requires working graphics card with OpenGL 3D accelerated driver to perform various rendering and image simulation tasks correctly. However, if you do not have a working graphics card, you can still run Gazebo headless at the expense of not having camera simulations and a working gazebo gui. If proper tf frames are setup, one can still view robot states through rviz.

  • Here are some tested working cards and drivers:

    Graphics Card

    Driver

    Platform / OS

    nVidia GeForce 210

    (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.*-pkg1.run and 195.17 beta)

    64Bit Ubuntu Karmic

    nVidia GeForce GT 240

    The one that is selected by Ubuntu 10.04 hardware manager

    32Bit Ubuntu 10.04

    nVidia GTS 360M

    The one that is selected by Ubuntu 10.04 hardware manager

    64Bit Ubuntu 10.04

    nVidia GTX 275

    The one that is selected by Ubuntu 10.04 hardware manager

    64Bit Ubuntu 10.04

    nVidia GTX 285M

    nVidia 260 and 270

    64Bit Ubuntu 10.04

    nVidia GeForce 9500 GT

    The one that is selected by Ubuntu 10.10 hardware manager, or even better, the newest nvidia driver using ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

    64Bit Ubuntu 10.10

    nVidia GeForce 6200

    (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.*-pkg1.run)

    32Bit/64Bit Ubuntu Hardy and Karmic

    nVidia GeForce 5200

    (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.*-pkg1.run through 190.53)

    32Bit/64Bit Ubuntu Hardy and Karmic

    nVidia GeForce 8400GT

    (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.*-pkg1.run through 190.53)

    32Bit/64Bit Ubuntu Hardy and Karmic

    ATI Radeon HD 3450

    Proprietary driver for ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics snapshot of restricted drivers manager

    Ubuntu Karmic

    ATI Radeon HD 3850

    Proprietary driver for ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics (from here), also had to disable Gnome's fancy visual effects

    Ubuntu Karmic

    ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

    Proprietary driver for ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics (Ubuntu restricted driver) - Need to turn off visual effects

    64Bit Ubuntu 10.04

    ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670

    Proprietary driver for ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics (Ubuntu restricted driver)

    64bit Ubuntu Karmic

    ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730

    The one that is automatically selected in Ubuntu 10.04 :) Need to turn off compositing (e.g. use metacity instead of compiz).

    64Bit Ubuntu 10.04

    ATI integrated Radeon HD4200

    Proprietary driver for ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics (Ubuntu restricted driver)

    64Bit Ubuntu 10.04

    ATI Radeon HD5770

    Proprietary driver for ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics (Ubuntu restricted driver)

    64Bit Ubuntu 10.04

ATI Mobility Radeon X1600

Open source ATI driver shipped with 64Bit Ubuntu Karmic. Occassional segfaults when system load is heavy.

64Bit Ubuntu Karmic

  • Here are some cards and drivers that do not work at all or works partially.

    Graphics Card

    Driver

    Platform / OS

    ATI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100 QY)

    Open source ATI driver

    n/a

    ATI Radeon 9200SE

    Open source ATI driver

    32Bit Ubuntu Hardy

Typical Simulation Failures Due to Incompatible Graphics Cards or Drivers:

Wiki: simulator_gazebo/SystemRequirements (last edited 2013-05-24 01:12:14 by davetcoleman)