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Terrain Tools System Requirements

Terrain Tools System Requirements

Terrain Tools System Requirements

MVRsimulation recommends that you use the most current hardware to get the best results from our products. Currently, the fastest and most capable commercial graphics cards are those built with the nVidia GeForce RTX 3090 series. Review our complete solutions specifications for examples of hardware configurations we offer, including our Terrain Generation System.

MVRsimulation Terrain Tools for Esri ArcGIS requires: 

  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 on a 64-bit system.
  • CPU: Intel Core I7 processor.
  • Memory: minimum required RAM is 32 GB; recommended RAM is 64 GB.
  • Graphics hardware: nVidia GeForce RTX 3090 PCI-Express 3.0 or better with 24 GB memory.
  • Network card: 10 Gigabit FastEthernet (Cat6A) and 1 Gigabit FastEthernet (Cat5e).
  • Graphics software: Microsoft DirectX 11.
  • Blu-ray reader: MVRsimulation products are delivered on Blu-ray media.
  • Storage: Ample storage for compiling and storing round-earth VRSG terrain tiles. When considering storage requirements, bear in mind the space needed to store imagery and elevation source data. Terrain tiles do not need to reside on one machine. During terrain tile compilation, you can have newly built tiles output to multiple machines, each with a modest amount of storage.
  • Esri ArcGIS Desktop: Version 10.4 and above: Any license level (Basic, Standard, or Advanced). Additional terrain build machines can use either ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Engine version 10.4 and above.  
  • Esri 3D Analyst Extension to ArcGIS.
  • ArcGIS for Desktop Background Geoprocessing (64-bit) add-on software. ArcMap and ArcCatalog are 32-bit applications. The 64-bit version of ArcGIS background processing, which is delivered with ArcGIS as an optional installation, enables geoprocessing tools including Terrain Tools to execute in an external 64-bit process, thus more system resources can be used for compiling 3D terrain. This add-on software must be installed prior to installing Terrain Tools.

 

Note: The forthcoming Terrain Tools for Esri ArcGIS Pro v3.0 will run exclusively on ArcGIS Pro. We are anticipating a Q1 2024 release for this new software.

 

 

All specifications on this page are subject to change without notice.
(September 2021)