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System Requirements

64-bit environments

Description Requirement
Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP® Professional x64 Edition SP2
  • Business
  • Home Premium
  • Ultimate
  • Enterprise
Microsoft® Windows® Vista® 7 64-bit 
  • Home Premium
  • Professional
  • Ultimate
  • Enterprise
Microsoft® Windows® 7 64-bit
  • Home Premium
  • Professional
  • Ultimate
  • Enterprise
Browser
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer® 7.0 (or later)
CPU type
  • Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition SP2:
    Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ Dual Core, 1.6 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology
  • Microsoft® Windows® Vista® 64 bit SP2 (or later) or Microsoft® Windows® 7 64 bit:
    Intel® Core™ i5-2300 quad-core processor [2.8GHz, 6MB cache] or equivalent AMD processor
Memory 4 GB RAM
  • Usually sufficient for a typical editing session for a single model of approximately 100MB on disk. This estimate is based on internal testing and customer reports. Individual models will vary in their use of computer resources and performance characteristics.
Video Display
  • 1280 x 1024 with True Color
Video Adapter
  • Basic Graphics: Display adapter capable of 24-bit color
  • Advanced Graphics: 256 MB DirectX® 10 capable graphics card with Shader Model 3 as recommended by Autodesk at: usa.autodesk.com
Hard Disk
  • 5 GB free disk space
Pointing Device
  • MS-Mouse compliant

 

32-bit environments

Description Requirement
Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP® SP2 (or later)
  • Home
  • Professional
Microsoft® Windows® Vista® 32 bit SP2 (or later)
  • Business
  • Home Premium
  • Ultimate
  • Enterprise
Microsoft® Windows® 7 32 bit
  • Home Premium
  • Professional
  • Ultimate
  • Enterprise
Browser
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer® 7.0 (or later)
CPU type
  • Microsoft® Windows® XP® SP2 (or later):
    Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ Dual Core, 1.6 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology
  • Microsoft® Windows® Vista® 32 bit SP2 (or later) or Microsoft® Windows® 7 32 bit:
    Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3.0 GHz (or higher) with SSE2 technology
Memory 2 GB RAM
  • Usually sufficient for a typical editing session for a single model of approximately 50MB on disk. This estimate is based on internal testing and customer reports. Individual models will vary in their use of computer resources and performance characteristics.
  • /3GB RAM switch not recommended for use with additional RAM. Revit and system stability can be affected by memory conflicts with video drivers when the /3GB switch is active
Video Display
  • 1280 x 1024 with True Color
Video Adapter
  • Basic Graphics: Display adapter capable of 24-bit color
  • Advanced Graphics: 256 MB DirectX® 10 capable graphics card with Shader Model 3 as recommended by Autodesk at: usa.autodesk.com
Hard Disk
  • 5 GB free disk space
Pointing Device
  • MS-Mouse compliant