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®
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
Maxwell™ chip; Dual-GPU setup with at least
NVIDIA
Maxwell™ cards for the best experience
- NVIDIA driver support for
CUDA®
11.0
or newer required
- Recommendation: NVIDIA driver version
451.48
(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 the
Fermi™
or Kepler™
architecture no longer support GPU acceleration.
See SOLIDWORKS Hardware Certification for
more information on specific graphics cards and drivers.