System Requirements

Hardware Configurations for Autodesk Showcase 2010

Minimum / Laptop

Performance may be limited in scenes with large numbers of objects.

• 2.4 GHz Intel® or equivalent AMD® processor
• 2 GB RAM
• NVIDIA GeForce® or Quadro® FX graphics card with at least 512 MB graphics memory

Recommended

• Intel® Pentium® 4  or 4-core 2.8 GHz processor or equivalent AMD processor 
• 4 GB RAM 
• NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics card with 768 MB graphics memory or more
  

Supported NVIDIA Graphics Cards

NVIDIA Quadro FX and GeForce cards released since Summer, 2006 that include the 7, 8 or 9 series graphics chipset. Cards must have a minimum 512 MB graphics memory. More memory is recommended on Microsoft® Windows Vista® or for users working with large data sets or complex scenes. 

Example graphics cards include:

• 7 series: Quadro FX 4500, Geforce 7900GTX, Mobile FX 2500M
• 8 series: Quadro FX 1700, Quadro FX 4600, GeForce 8800 GTS, Mobile FX 1600M
• 9 series: Quadro FX 3700, Quadro FX 5800, GeForce 9600 GT, Mobile FX 3600M
• Quadro Plex Model II and Model D2 are also supported.

Operating System

• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP 2 or higher) 
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (Autodesk® Showcase® software runs as a 32-bit application on 64-bit operating system)
• Microsoft Windows Vista® 32-bit or 64-bit,  including Business, Enterprise or Ultimate (SP 1)

Note: Showcase can use up to 3 GB RAM on 32-bit Windows XP (with modified boot options) or on Windows Vista 32. 64-bit Windows XP x64 or Windows Vista 64 allows Showcase to access up to 4 GB of system RAM.