Supported Operating Systems

32-bit

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate/Enterprise1
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3 or higher)

64 bit

• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate/Enterprise¹
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional X64 (SP2 or higher)

¹ For Autodesk® SketchBook Designer 2013, Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium is not supported.

Supported CPU Type

Baseline Recommendation

Microsoft® Windows® 7

• 3.0 GHz or Higher Intel ® Pentium ® 4; AMD Athlon™ Dual Core with SSE3 technology or AMD Opteron™ with SSE3 technology

Microsoft® Windows® XP

• 1.6 GHz or Higher Intel ® Pentium ® 4 or AMD Athlon™ Dual Core with SSE3 technology

Exceptions

For 3D Modeling in AutoCAD®based products:

• Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon, 3.0 GHz or greater or Intel or AMD Dual Core processor, 2.0 GHz or greater

Recommended Memory

Baseline Recommendation

• 2 GB RAM (4 GB RAM recommended)

Exceptions

AutoCAD® Structural Detailing 2013

• 3 GB RAM

Recommended Graphics Hardware

Baseline Recommendation

Basic Graphics

• Display adapter capable of 24-bit color

Advanced Graphics

• 256 MB DirectX® 10 capable graphics card with Shader Model 3

Exceptions

Autodesk® Showcase 2013 or Autodesk® SketchBook Designer 2013

• Certified hardware-accelerated graphics card with a minimum of 512 MB graphics memory (1GB recommended) and Microsoft® DirectX® 9 support

Recommended Display Resolution

• 1,280 x 1,024 with true color

Recommended Hard Disk

• 24 GB of free space

Pointing Device

Baseline Recommendation

• Microsoft® Mouse compliant

Exceptions

Autodesk® Showcase 2013

• Three-button mouse

Autodesk® SketchBook Designer 2013

• Intuos® 3 or higher tablet or Wacom Cintiq® active tablet highly recommended, using a tablet driver of 6.1.6-7 or higher. For Bamboo® users, a tablet driver of 5.2.4-5 is recommended.

Browser

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 8.0 or higher

Media

• USB 2.0

Network

• Internet connection for full User Assistance Documentation and Subscription Web Services

Other

• Microsoft® .NET Framework Version 2.0 (included in Install)

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