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MetaVR Product System Requirements
Recommended System Configuration
We recommend 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. Installing the latest ATI Catalyst™
video card driver release with this card is recommended for running
MetaVR Virtual
Reality Scene Generator (VRSG).
The following is a recommended high-end system configuration:
• Operating system: Microsoft Windows
XP Professional (VRSG also runs on Windows XP 64-bit systems and the
Vista operation system)
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850
Quad Core 3.0 GHz 8 MB 1333 FSB processor
• Memory: 4 GB PC2-5300/DDR2-667 dual-channel
RAM
• Storage: 500 GB serial ATA drive
for the operating system and two 1 TB drives for data (more storage
needed to compile a large number of tiles with the Metadesic Compiler)
• Graphics hardware: Radeon™
HD 2900XT 512 MB, nVidia GeForce 7900, or better
• 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 joystick (such as Logitech® Extreme 3D Pro) for a secondary device
for VRSG's fixed wing, UAV, or FPS modes
• DVD reader: DVD-R compatible; 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 (note that VRSG will run on Windows XP 64-bit systems)
(Note: Although the current version of MetaVR VRSG will still run
under the older Windows 2000 operating system, known issues include
very slow performance at application shutdown and during a window
resize or video mode change. Running VRSG or MetaVR’s other
software products under Windows 2000 will not benefit from a hyperthreading-enabled
processor. MetaVR does not recommend Windows 2000 as an operating
system for running MetaVR software. )
- CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz processor
or better 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: DVD-R compatible; MetaVR
products are delivered on DVD media
Storage requirements for MetaVR WorldPerfect
and Metadesic
Compiler can require as much as twice the storage requirements of
Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG) to account for the space needed
to store imagery and elevation source data and compiled terrain.
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