Your system should fulfill the following requirements:

• Linux OS, Kernel 2.6 or
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista
• 1GHz or better Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor
• OpenGL-capable graphics card (e.g. NVidia GeForce II onwards)
• OpenGL 2.0 capable graphics card for hardware-shaded water effects
  
• 512MB RAM

On Linux, you will need to have the following libraries installed:

• OpenGL
• OpenAL
• libALUT (sometimes called FreeALUT, sometimes this is included in OpenAL)
  
• libSDL version 1.2.10 and above

On Windows, you will need to have the following installed:

• An OpenGL driver
• OpenAL (get it from the downloads section)