Before installing SOLIDWORKS Visualize and SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost, you
must have the following prerequisites for each machine:
- A
SOLIDWORKS Visualize serial number
- A
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost serial number
Each computer running SOLIDWORKS Visualize or SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost
must meet these requirements:
- Windows® 7 or Windows® 10 (64-bit)
- Minimum:
Dual core
CPU.
Recommendation:
Quad
core.
- Minimum:
8GB RAM.
Recommendation:
16GB.
- Minimum:
2GB free disk space.
Recommendation:
5GB.
- Minimum:
2GB or more GPU RAM.
Recommendation:
4GB.
- HDR Light Studio connection: HDR Light Studio v5.3.3 or newer,
except v5.4
- 4GB of video memory or more required for the Denoiser
feature
For NVIDIA iRay GPU support:
- NVIDIA® graphics card: NVIDIA
Quadro®/NVIDIA GeForce®/Tesla™ with at least NVIDIA
Kepler™ chip; Dual-GPU setup with at least
NVIDIA Maxwell™ cards for the best experience
- NVIDIA driver support for CUDA®
10.1 or newer required
- Recommendation: NVIDIA driver version 419.69 (or
newer)
- For RTX enabled Turing cards (Turing™ TU10x), a driver version of 430.86 (or newer)
For AMD ProRender GPU support:
- Recommendation: Radeon™ or
FirePro™ series workstation cards.
If an
applicable GPU is not found,
SOLIDWORKS Visualize defaults to the central processing unit (CPU) and
does
not use
the
installed graphics
card
for GPU-acceleration. Also, NVIDIA cards based on Fermi™ architecture no longer support GPU acceleration.
See SOLIDWORKS Hardware Certification for more
information on specific graphics cards and drivers.