February 18th, 2014 A.C.T Lighting Technical Bulletin
A.C.T Recommended Hardware Specifications grandMA2 onPC:
IBM compatible PC with: • Dual Core Processor with 2.4 GHz CPU (SSE2) • Minimum 4 GB RAM • Hard-drive with minimum 32 GB (recommended type: SSD) • Windows 7 64-bit Professional or Ultimate (must have admin rights) • Network card 100/1000 T/TX (recommended Gigabit network interface) • USB 2.0 • Any graphics card with: o Hardware acceleration, greater than 256MB graphic-RAM, o Resolution at least 1352x800 pixels (recommended: 1920x1080) o Highly recommended: NVIDIA 9800 GTX or NVIDIA Geforce GTX285 or AMD Radeon 5870 / 6970 or better, also NVIDIA Geforce 9600M GT laptop card o Very important: no shared graphics memory—onPC won’t draw properly.
Tested laptop spec: Apple MacBook Pro 15” or 17” with dedicated VRAM running Microsoft Windows 7 Pro via Bootcamp.
grandMA 3D:
IBM compatible PC with: • Dual Core Processor with 2.4 GHz CPU (SSE2) • Minimum 4 GB RAM • Hard-drive with minimum 32 GB (recommended type: SSD) • Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium, Pro, or Ultimate (must have admin rights) • Microsoft DirextX Version 9c or higher • Network card 100/1000 T/TX (recommended Gigabit network interface) • USB 2.0 • 3D graphics card with: o Hardware acceleration, 512MB graphic RAM (no shared graphics memory!) o Vertex Shader Version at least 3.0 o Pixel Shader Version at least 3.0 o Resolution at least 1024x768 o Highly recommended: AMD Radeon 5870 / 7870 or better, also Geforce GTX Titan
Tested laptop spec: Apple MacBook Pro 15” or 17” with dedicated VRAM running Microsoft Windows 7 Pro via Bootcamp.
February 18th, 2014 A.C.T Lighting Technical Bulletin
MA VPU (for VPU software):
IBM compatible PC with: • Intel i7 Dual Core Processor with 2.4 GHz CPU or better • Minimum 8 GB RAM • C: drive VPU software – hard-drive with minimum 32 GB (recommended SSD) • D: drive VPU content – hard-drive with minimum 128 GB (highly recommended SSD) • Windows 7 64-bit (must have admin rights) • Microsoft DirectX Version 9c or higher • Mainconcept decoder package mpeg2 – Version 8.2 • Network card 100/1000 T/TX (recommended Gigabit network interface) • USB 2.0 & USB 3.0 • High-speed 3D graphics card with: o Hardware acceleration, o 1024MB graphic-RAM (no shared graphics memory!) o Resolution minimum 1024x768 pixels (recommended: 1920x1080) o As we know about problems with certain NVIDIA cards, the only recommended nVidia card is the GTX 285 if still available. o (Recommended graphic adapter: AMD Radeon 7870 or better)
New Graphic cards in general… …are available roughly every 3 months. As the development of graphic cards is so fast it is difficult to always update and test the latest hardware.