MetaVR Product System Requirements

MetaVR™ recommends that you use the most current hardware to get the best results from our products. Currently, the fastest and most capable commercial graphics cards are those built with the ATI Radeon HD 2900XT or the nVidia GeForce GXT 285 series.

Recommended System Configuration

The following is a recommended high-end system configuration:

• Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (including Windows XP 64-bit systems) or Vista; note that Virtual Reality Scene Generator™ (VRSG™) does not operate on a Linux system running a Windows emulator
• CPU: Intel I7-975 CORE i7 Extreme 3.33 GHz 8 MB 6.4GT/s Processor (4 cores with hyperthreading); ASUS Rampage II Gene (X58 Chipset) MATX motherboard
• Memory: 4 GB (4 - 1GB) PC3-10600/DDR3-1333 RAM
• Storage: Intel X25-M 160 GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid-State-Drive for the operating system; Seagate 2.0TB 32 MB 7200RPM SATA-II hard drive recommended for data storage (more storage might be needed to compile a large number of Metadesic terrain tiles)
• Graphics hardware: Radeon™ HD 5900XT, nVidia GeForce GeForce GXT 285 or better with 1 GB memory
• Network card: 1 GB FastEthernet
• Graphics software: Microsoft DirectX 9.0c
• Input device: 6 degrees-of-freedom device such as 3Dconnection SpaceExplorer or SpacePilot as a primary navigation input device for VRSG, and optionally a gamepad for a secondary device for VRSG's First Person Simulator, UAV camera, fixed wing simulation modes.
• DVD reader: MetaVR products are delivered on DVD media

Minimum System Configuration

The following minimum requirements were established by testing the lowest-end MetaVR internal use system:

• Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 (including Windows XP 64-bit systems)
• CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz processor with hyperthreading, 1 MB cache, 533 FSB
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Storage: 120 GB serial ATA hard drive for the operating system and 500 MB drive for databases
• Graphics hardware: ATI Radeon x1950XTX Mobility Radeon X1800, nVidia GeForce Go 7900 with at least 256 MB, or other Microsoft DirectX-compliant 3D graphics accelerator that supports DirectX texture compression
• Graphics software: Microsoft DirectX 9.0c
• Network card: 1 GB FastEthernet
• DVD reader: MetaVR products are delivered on DVD media

About Storage Requirements

Storage requirements for MetaVR Terrain Tools for ESRI ArcGIS might require as much as twice the storage requirements of MetaVR VRSG to account for the space needed to store imagery and elevation source data and compiled terrain.