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Hardware/Operating System Requirements

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Supported CPU

Intel and AMD processors supporting SSE2*

LightTools supports multi-processing (distributed ray tracing) on PCs with multiple processing cores.

Note: Intel Itanium PCs are not supported.

*Examples of CPUs with SSE2 support are Intel Core family, Intel Atom, Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64, etc.

Supported Microsoft Windows® Operating Systems

XP x86 SP3
XP x64 SP2
Windows 7 x86

Windows 7 x64

RAM required

32-bit Windows: 1 GB minimum per processing core, 2 GB recommended per processing core*.
64-bit Windows: 6 GB minimum, 12 GB or more recommended.

*Per processing core requirement and recommendation are based on the use of LightTools multi-processing (distributed ray tracing) capability.

USB port

Needed for LightTools hardware key device (dongle)

Additional Software

For LightTools’ SolidWorks Link Module, SolidWorks 2007 or higher is required.

Display

Monitor supporting 1280 x 1024 or better resolution recommended.

OpenGL compliant graphics card with stable ICD driver support recommended.