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 Kepler™
chip; Dual-GPU setup with at least NVIDIA Maxwell™ cards for the best experience
- NVIDIA driver version 385.41 (or newer) recommended
- NVIDIA driver support for CUDA® 9.0 or newer required
- 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
If non-NVIDIA graphics cards are installed, SOLIDWORKS Visualize defaults
to the central processing unit (CPU) and does use these cards for GPU-acceleration.
Also, NVIDIA cards based on Fermi™ architecture no
longer support GPU acceleration.