Notes:

The download package contains a blender.html file with installation instructions and a quick survival guide for new users.
Users with Intel on-board graphics: some graphics operations (menus or border select) don't show due to driver bug.

Regression Files

Regression files are .blend examples showing systematically all features we test before doing a release. This is a good reference for bug hunting, but also a valuable demo overview for new users.

Blender 2.48 regression suite (50+ demo files): NL USA

Blender 2.43 game demos (graphics): NL USA

Blender 2.43 game demos (physics): NL USA

Installation instructions

To install Blender, download the appropriate package for your platform to your computer. The Windows version comes with an optional self-extracting installer, for other operating systems you can unpack the compressed file to the location of your choice.

Provided the Blender binary is in the original extracted directory, Blender will run straight out of the box. No system libraries or system preferences are altered.

MD5 checksum

Download the md5sums to the same directory as the Blender download and run

$ md5sum -c release248a.md5

to verify the integrity of the download. You can safely ignore the warnings about missing files. (Windows users can do this too with a Cygwin installation, or google for 'md5sum win32').

Blender 2.48a

Blender 2.48a is the latest release from the Blender Foundation. To download it, please select your platform and location.

Windows 32 bits

Blender 2.48a Installer (9 MB)

Requires Windows 2000/XP/Vista

USA | Germany | Asia | NL

Blender 2.48a Zip Archive (13 MB)

Requires Windows 2000/XP/Vista

USA | Germany | Asia | NL

If you have troubles running Blender on Windows, receiving an error message like"The Application failed to initialize properly ( 0xc0150002 )" while trying to starting Blender, then download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86).

Windows 64 bits

(no installer yet)

Blender 2.48a Zip Archive (10 MB)

Requires Windows Vista 64bit

USA | Germany | Asia | NL

Note: The 64bit release of Blender for Windows is still in a somewhat experimental stage: it doesn't support all possible features yet, like FFMPEG and Quicktime. It also may not start properly on non-Vista systems.