Autodesk SHOWCASE 2011 - SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS, SHOWCASE 2011 Hardware Manual

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AUTODESK
SHOWCASE®
2011

Recommended Minimum System
Requirements

Software

The 32-bit version of Showcase 2011 software is supported by any of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft

• Microsoft

• Microsoft

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Windows® XP Professional (SP3 or higher) operating system

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Windows Vista® Business (SP2 or higher) operating system

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Windows® 7 Professional operating system

The 64-bit version of Showcase 2011 software is supported by any of the following operating systems:

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• Microsoft

• Microsoft

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Windows® XP Professional x64 (SP2 or higher) operating system

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Windows Vista® Business x64 (SP2 or higher) operating system

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Windows® 7 Professional x64 operating system

Hardware

Minimum/Laptop

• 2.4 GHz Intel® or equivalent AMD® processor

• 2 GB system RAM

• Certified NVIDIA

Recommended

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• Intel

• 4 GB or more system RAM with Windows XP x64 Edition or Windows Vista 64-bit

• Certified NVIDIA or ATI graphics card with at least 768 MB graphics mem ory

Supported Graphics Cards

ATI Radeon™ and ATI FirePro™ graphics cards, as well as NVIDIA® Quadro® FX and NVIDIA®
GeForce
Graphics cards must have a minimum 512 MB graphics memory. More memory is recommended on
Windows Vista or for users working with large data sets or complex scenes.

Pentium® 4; 4-core 2.8 GHz processor; or equivalent AMD processor

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graphics cards released after 2007 that include the 7, 8, or 9 series graphics chipset.

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or ATI™ graph ic s card wit h at least 512 MB graphics memory

Graphics cards include:

• 7 series: Quadro FX 4500, GeForce 7900GTX, Mobile FX 2500M

• 8 series: Quadro FX 1700, Quadro FX 4600, GeForce 8800 GTS, Mobile FX 1600M

• 9 series: Quadro FX 3700, Quadro FX 5800, GeForce 9600 GT, Mobile FX 3600M

• Quadro Plex Model II and Model D2 are also supported.

• ATI Radeon 4830 and 4850

• ATI FirePro 5700, 7750, 8700 and 8750

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