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Prerequisites and System Requirements

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 newer (64-bit)
Dual core CPU; Quad core recommended
8GB RAM; 16GB recommended
2GB free disk space; 5GB recommended
2GB or more GPU RAM; 4GB recommended
NVIDIA^® graphics card: NVIDIA Quadro^®/NVIDIA GeForce^®/Tesla™ with at least NVIDIA Fermi™ chip; Dual-GPU setup with at least NVIDIA Maxwell™ cards for the best experience
NVIDIA Pascal cards are not supported in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2017 SP0. This includes the following graphics cards: Tesla P100, Tesla P40, Tesla P4, Quadro P6000, Quadro P5000, GTX 1060, GTX 1070, and GTX 1080. Support is expected to be released in a SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2017 service pack.
NVIDIA driver version 362.13 recommended
NVIDIA driver support for CUDA^® 7.5 or newer required
HDR Light Studio connection: HDR Light Studio v5.3.3 or newer

If non-NVIDIA graphics cards are installed, SOLIDWORKS Visualize will default to the CPU and not utilize these cards for GPU-acceleration.

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