And the lack of frustration in waiting on a slow computer brings unmeasureable psychologic rewards as well. It will pay for itslef in porductivity gains very quickly. I would say spend as much as you can on the hardware. ANd I can actually spin a rendered 3D model without it dropping to wireframe. I was trying the ADT demo at home, and it smokes my computer at work. I have a P4-3000 w/ 1 GB on dual channel PC4200 RAm at home and a fast MAxtor HD. Those guys above who say to max out RAM, CPU and hard drive are bang on. If the program is already running, takes about 10 seconds. Right now, a simple 2D plan drawing, say 300 kB in ADT takes about 15-20 seconds to open from scratch (includes starting software). If we are slow with 2D, I can't wait to see how we perform in 3D. And we have not even yet got into the 3D designing features of ADT/ABS. Actually it did help, but we are still unbearably slow. (If you can't tell, I am using my sarcastic typing now). We were soooooo happy when they graciously upgraded us all to 512 MB RAM. We complained bitterly and convinced them that hardware upgrade was required. Well, needless to say, the machines were really slow with ADT/ABS. The 64-bit versions can access much more. We were running P4-1700 MHz machines with 256 MB RAM with Win2000. There are 64-bit versions of AutoCAD 2014 and AutoCAD LT 2014 that run in the 64-bit versions of Windows XP, 7, or 8. My company spent a PILE on software, but completely ignored hardware.

We recently went from ACAD 2002 to ADT 2004 & ABS 2004. Fee RE: Autocad 2004 System requirements? IFRs (Petroleum) 4 Jun 04 16:52 It'll be nearly impossible to get the boss to approve your future upgrades, without explaining why you didn't take these issues into account from the beginning.Ĭ. Give them as much playing room as possible. YOU ARE GOING TO LOAD ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE (and ask your system to do additional jobs) over the next couple of years, that is going to compete with ACAD for system resources.

You'll have to live with it for YEARS (hopefully), and 2. WIN-2000 good, XP a bit better, XP-Pro prefered., CD-Reader _&_ DVD R/W, etc.īE SERIOUS about this purchase. Post here for the current best recommendations concerning video. I hear ATI has done an admirable job reducung their ACAD compatibility issues. Check here and other places for VIDEO COMPATIBILITY ISSUES. MAKE CERTAIN that your video configuration does NOT use 'shared RAM' (RAM shared from the motherboard).Ĥ. Don't even debate me on this point, guys!ģ.

Get the best processor/motherboard combination you can possibly afford.Ģ. There you can find several different releases but it is advised to download the latest release.BOTH posts are right on, but definitely lean toward CDH's.ġ. To install PVcase it is required to find this plug-in in license manager Download section. Operating system: Windows 10 (圆4) (minimum Windows 10)ĭisplay Card: 4 GB GPU with 106 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliantĤ.7.2 version of.

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