System Requirements
System requirements for all SpaceClaim products.
Operating Systems:
Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 3 1
Microsoft® Windows Vista™
Microsoft® Windows 7
Microsoft® Windows 8
SpaceClaim is not supported on virtual platforms (See note below).
Intel-based Apple hardware running native Windows using Boot Camp is not supported.
Video Card:
Requires Full DirectX® 9c, Shader Model 3.0 hardware support, 256 MB of graphics memory or higher, 32 bits per pixel, 1024x768 minimum resolution.
Please ensure that you have the latest graphics driver for your card and that Direct3D Acceleration is enabled.
(Run the video requirements diagnostic tool to check this)
The following commonly used video cards support the above requirements² :
Radeon®:
ATI® Radeon R300, R420, R520, R600, or R700 series.
Radeon 9x00 cards (9700, 9800, …) or newer
NVIDIA®:
NVIDIA GeForce® FX, 6, 7, or 8 series. NVIDIA FX5200s or newer
AMD™:
AMD FireGL™ T2-128 or higher (including the ‘Mobility’ series for laptops)
CPU:
Pentium® 4 2.0 GHZ or Athlon® 2000+ or faster, 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
RAM:
Minimum: 512MB RAM (32-bit), 1Gb RAM (64-bit)
Recommended: 2GB RAM or higher
Other:
CD drive (only for CD installation)
2 Button Mouse with Wheel
3D Mouse (3Dconnexion - Optional)
Multi-touch:
Multi-touch now works on all Windows 7 and 8 devices via the native pen-and-touch interface.
Note regarding Microsoft® .NET Framework 4.0:
SpaceClaim requires .NET 4.0, and an installer for .NET 4.0 is included within the SpaceClaim installer.
It is possible in some cases that a corrupt version of .NET will be detected as the correct version by the SpaceClaim installer. If this happens, SpaceClaim will be installed, but will not run properly. To remedy this, please manually install .NET 4.0 using Microsoft's web site, Microsoft Update or Windows Update. On some occasions, this may involve cleaning the .NET installation by uninstalling any .NET components and re-installing them all. More details can be found on Microsoft's web site here.
Once the .NET 4.0 installation is successful, the SpaceClaim installation should proceed normally.
Note on virtual platforms:
Users report successfully operating SpaceClaim on VMware Workstation 7.x and Player 3.x. ³
1. For the 64-bit version of Windows XP, Service Pack 2 is the latest and compatible with SpaceClaim.
2. SpaceClaim does not certify or recommend specific graphic cards.
3. SpaceClaim license is required for each emulated system running SpaceClaim