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HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS
The minimum-system recommendations in
the following table are for AnvilCAD Lite, or ANVIL EXPRESS containing only the Design
Drafter module. Systems with additional modules such as Surface Modeling or
Manufacturing will benefit
greatly from having 512 megabytes of RAM or more, a 300 megabyte swap file, larger hard disk, and faster microprocessor.
Recommended
System Configuration |
| Operating System |
Microsoft
Windows 98, 98SE, 98ME, NT
4.0, 2000, XP/Home, XP/Pro |
| Microprocessor |
Intel Pentium,
500 MHz or higher |
| RAM |
256
megabytes |
| Hard Disk |
2 gigabyte |
| Monitor |
17"
color |
| Graphics card |
See
"Adapter Type"
list below |
| Resolution |
1024 x 768 (small
fonts) |
| Color depth |
65,536 colors
(16-bit or high
color) or higher |
| Permanent swap file |
150
-200 megabytes minimum |
| CD-ROM drive |
4X or better (required for
installation only) |
| Sound Card |
Any |
All graphics cards used with ANVIL
EXPRESS should be set to a minimum of 1024 x 768 resolution and 16K colors. Laptop computers
used with ANVIL EXPRESS must also meet these minimum display requirements.
The following list of graphics cards is from MCS and its customers.
Some of these
cards have not been tested by MCS but our customers have used them
successfully.
| Adapter
Type (Graphics Card) |
Note |
Matrox
GeForce (Nvidia
GForce)
|
Nvidia GForce
256 driver (Win2000)
Nvidia GForce
DDR driver (Win2000) |
Matrox/Nvidia GeForce
II or III
GeForce II MX/MX400
GeForce II Ti 200
GeForce 4 Ti4200
|
Nvidia
driver (Win98/2000/XP) turn down hardware accel |
GeForce 4 /MX440
GeForce 4 Ti4200
|
Nvidia
driver v.3082 (or later) (Windows 2000) allows full hardware accel |
Nvidia
Quadro II Pro (64 MB)
Nvidia Quadro 4 (64 MB)
Nvidia Quadro 4 900XGL
|
Nvidia
driver v.3082 (or later) allows full hardware accel. Dell
driver (Win2000/XP) turn down hardware accel |
| Nvidia
Quatro FX-1000 |
Nvidia
driver v.4354 allows full hardware accel. (Windows XP) |
| ATI
Expert 2000 |
ATI
driver vers 4.3.4 (Windows
NT) |
| ATI
Rage 128 Pro (16 MB) |
ATI
driver vers 5.0.115 (Windows 2000) |
| ATI
Radeon (64 MB) |
(Win98/XP)
enable Page Flipping, full hardware accel |
| ATI
ProTurbo 9600 |
Mobility
M10 (Windows 2000) |
| ATI
Mobility 9200 (32MB) / HP Pavilion ZT3000 |
ATI
driver v.6422 allows full hardware accel.
(Windows XP) |
| Matrox
G450 Dualhead |
Matrox
driver ver 4.70.011(WinNT)
(Win2000/XP) |
| 3D
Labs Wildcat II 5110 (64 MB) |
(Win2000/XP)
turn down hardware accel |
ELSA
Gloria
ELSA Gloria II |
(WinNT)
enable Double Buffer, Force Buffer Blit |
| 3D
Labs Wildcat VP870 (128 MB) |
3Dlabs
driver v.3.00.0385 (Windows 2000) full accel with BufferSwap
mode=Force Swap Copy |
Older PCI graphics cards:
| Adapter Type
(Graphic Card)
|
Note |
| Diamond Fire GL 1000 |
3DLabs Permedia
- 4 or 8 MB |
| Diamond Multimedia Stealth 64 VRAM
PCI |
S3 Vision 968
- 4 MB |
| Diamond Multimedia Stealth 3D2000
Series |
S3 Virge - 4 MB |
|
Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro (ver. 4.00.1381.0245)
|
4 or 8 MB
(Windows NT 4.0) |
| Matrox Millennium II AGP (ver.
3.20, 4.0.55) |
8 MB |
| STB Velocity 128 3D |
Nvidia RIVA
128 driver (ver. 1030, 4.0.0) |
| ATI XPERT 98D 3D 2X AGP
|
ATI
driver (Windows
NT) |
| Oxygen
RPM 64MB |
Check -
Enable back buffer copy mode |
| Oxygen GMX |
Run oxygen.exe - located in the \Express\utilities directory
- Blit Screen option |
| Oxygen VX1, GVX1, GVX210 |
Run oxygen.exe - located in the
\Express\ utilities directory - Blit Screen option |
| Diamond Fire GL1 |
Check - Force copy swap
Version:
v400.1381.1066 rel. 1.04 |
| Diamond
Fire GL II |
(Win2000)
enable Quad-buffer Stereo/Force Copy Swap |
| Diamond
Viper 550 (Nvidia TNT) |
Nvidia
TNT
driver - NT4.0, TNT
driver - Win98/2000 |
| Diamond
Viper 770 (Nvidia TNT2) |
Nvidia
TNT2
driver - NT4.0, TNT2
driver - Win98/2000 |
| Diamond
Viper 770 Ultra (Nvidia TNT2 Ultra) |
Nvidia
TNT2
Ultra driver-NT4.0, TNT2
Ultra driver-Win98/2000 |
| Leadtek Winfast 3D L2200 |
3DLabs Permedia NT
- 8 MB |
| Matrox Graphics MGA Millennium |
MGA - 1064 S6 R2
- 4MB |
| Matrox Graphics Mystique |
MGA - 1064 S6 R2
- 4 MB |
| Matrox Millennium |
4 or 8 MB |
| Matrox Mystique |
4 MB |
| Number Nine Visual Technologies -
Imagine 128 II |
Imagine 128 Series 2
- 4 MB |
| S3-compatible display adapter |
S3 Vision 968
- 4 MB |
For additional information, please contact our
Scottsdale office.
ANVIL EXPRESS is a registered
trademark and SNAP2-3D is a trademark of Manufacturing and Consulting Services, Inc.
Other companies' trademarks are used for product identification only.
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