Looking for installation requirements or recommendations for the new 2011 line of products? Well there’s a webcast for that! I’ve summarized the video below, as well as added my own recommendation for some of the hardware. Chances are though if you have a computer built in the last 2 years you should be pretty compatible.
The biggest changes for Revit Architecture, is that rendering is no longer limited to 4 cores, so you can go all out rendering if you have more than 4 cores available. Also even more reliance on 64-bit processing, so you’re best bet is using the new Windows 7 64-bit operating system with your hardware allowing your computer to use the most memory available.
UPDATE:
Supported Graphics Card Hardware for Revit 2011:
http://www.autodesk.com/us/revit/revit_graphics_hardware_-_graphics_hardware_list_final.html
System requirements for installing Autodesk 2011 products:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc6vDZiRqLg
This includes:
- AutoCAD 2011
- Revit Architecture 2011
- Inventor 2011
CPU (processor):
Requirement
- Windows 7 or Vista processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD® Athlon dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
- Windows XP: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
Recommendation
- Intel Core 2 Quad or Core i5 or i7,quad-core processor, 2.33Ghz or higher with SSE2 technology.
- AMD Athlon or Phenom X3 or X4, triple-core, or quad-core processor, 2.6Ghz or higher with SSE2 technology.
RAM (physical memory):
Recommended
- 32/64-bit AutoCAD = 2GB or more
- 32-bit Inventor = 3GB for tooling
- 64-bit Inventor = 6GB or more for complex models
- 32-bit Revit Architecture = Use 64-bit for optimum performance
- 64-bit Revit Architecture = 8GB or more
- For all systems I’d recommend at least 4GB w/ 3GB switch enabled. Keep in mind, memory is cheap, waiting on your computer is not!
Required
- 32/64-bit AutoCAD = 2GB
- 32/64-bit Inventor = 2GB
- 32/64-bit Revit Architecture = 3GB
Graphics Card (video):
- DirectX & Direct3D 9.0 or 10 capability
- Shader Model 3.0 capability
- 256MB or higher of video card memory (I’d recommend 512MB at minimum)
Hard Drive (virtual memory/page file/swap file):
Required free hard drive space:
- 32/64-bit AutoCAD = 2GB min.
- 32/64-bit Inventor = 2x memory installed
- 32/64-bit Revit Architecture = 5GB min.
Operating Systems (AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit):
- Windows 7 (32-bit & 64-bit)
- Windows Vista (32-bit & 64-bit)
- Windows XP (32-bit & 64-bit)
