Autodesk DESIGN SUITE 2011 - SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS User manual

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Design Suites 2011
System Requirements
32-bit hardware
Operating System
•Microsoft®Windows®7 Professional
•Windows Vista®Business with Service Pack 2
•Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3
Browser
•Windows Internet Explorer®7.0 or later
CPU Type
•Intel®Pentium®4 or 4-core 2.8 GHz processor
•Equivalent AMD®processor
Memory
•4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
•4 GB swap space (8 GB recommended)
Display Resolution
•1280 x 1024 display with True Color
Hard Disk
•11.5 GB free disk space
Pointing Device
•Microsoft-mouse compliant

Display Card
•AutoCAD®: 128 MB or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Direct3D®capable workstation
class
•Autodesk® Showcase®:
oNVIDIA®Quadro FX and GeForceTM cards released since 2007 that include the 7, 8, or
9 series graphics chipset. Graphics card 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.
oATI RadeonTM 4830 and 4850
oATI FireProTM 5700, 7750, 8700, and 8750
Note: Some Showcase features might not be available at the lower hardware configurations.
•Autodesk® Alias® Sketch: Microsoft® DirectX®9.0 capable graphics card with 128 MB or
greater dedicated video memory
System Requirements
64-bit hardware
Operating System
•Windows®7 Professional
•Windows Vista®Business with Service Pack 2 or higher
•Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 or higher
Browser
•Windows Internet Explorer®7.0 or later
CPU Type
•Intel®Pentium®4 or 4-core 2.8 GHz processor
•Equivalent AMD®processor
Memory
•4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
•4 GB swap space (8 GB recommended)
Note: Autodesk recommends settings that allow Windows to manage virtual memory as needed.
There should always be at least twice as much free hard disk space as system memory.
Display Resolution
•1280 x 1024 display with True Color
Hard Disk
•7 GB free disk space
Pointing Device
•Microsoft-mouse compliant

Display Card
•AutoCAD: 128 MB or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Microsoft®Direct3D®capable
workstation class
•Autodesk Showcase:
oNVIDIA®Quadro FX and GeForceTM cards released since 2007 that include the 7, 8, or
9 series graphics chipset. Graphics card 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.
oATI RadeonTM 4830 and 4850
oATI FirePro 5700, 7750, 8700, and 8750
Note: Some Showcase features might not be available at the lower hardware configurations.
•Alias Sketch: DirectX 9.0 capable graphics card with 128 MB or greater dedicated video
memory
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