Ensure your system is ready
Check the required hardware requirements and specifications below to verify your computer's compatibility and ensure optimal performance with our software.
Check the required hardware requirements and specifications below to verify your computer's compatibility and ensure optimal performance with our software.
Deswik vCAD and Deswik vSched are free, standalone applications intended to improve the communication of mine plans and schedules to stakeholders who receive outputs from Deswik Spatial and Deswik Planning.
Unrestricted by licensing, both viewers can be installed on any of the latest Windows systems, ensuring every stakeholder in your mine planning process has access to the latest mine schedule.
Communicate your mine design with our free CAD viewer.
Note: Deswik vCAD cannot be used to evaluate the capabilities for the full Deswik Suite. Please contact sales@deswik.com if you wish to evaluate Deswik Suite or any of its components.
Communicate your mine schedules with our free schedule viewer.
Note: Deswik vSched cannot be used to evaluate the capabilities for the full Deswik Suite. Please contact sales@deswik.com if you wish to evaluate Deswik Suite or any of its components.
While there’s some basic underlying hardware requirements for Deswik.Suite to perform well, the hardware specs required for workstations / PCs / laptops can vary depending on your use case and data sizes.
If you’re at the stage of determining specifications for new machines and have any questions, please contact support@deswik.com.
Minimum for Viewing and Drafting (1)
Minimum
Recommended
Huge Models (3)
Processor
Quad Core 2.5Ghz+
Quad Core 2.5Ghz+
Quad Core 3Ghz
Quad Core 3.5Ghz+
RAM
8GB
16GB
32GB
64GB
Video Card (3)
Integrated
1GB Video Card
2GB Video Card
4GB Video Card
Display resolution (4)
1920 x 1080
Hard drive
SSD Hard Drive
Operating System (5)
64 Bit versions of Windows 10 or Windows 11
.NET Framework
4.7.2 or higher
Visual C++ runtime libraries
2010, 64-bit, version 10.0.40219 or higher | 2012, 64-bit, version 11.0.61030 or higher | 2013, 64-bit, version 12.0.21005 or higher | 2015-2022 64 bit, version 14.40.33810 or higher
Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable
16.0.5044 or higher
1. Lower spec machines may be able to run Deswik Suite for viewing and drafting purposes, however the size of the file / data being loaded will be the limitation on the minimum spec machine required.
2. Typically large open cut coal models.
3. Recommended configuration for optimization using Deswik GO
4. A note on Video Cards:
i. The card is an Intel Skylake generation or higher card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Graphics_Technology#Skylake
ii. The latest Intel graphics card drivers are installed
iii. The customer understands that integrated graphics cards will provide significantly poorer performance and may lack some functionality as opposed to a dedicated graphics card.
5. Lower display resolutions may work, but some controls may not be visible in some configurations.
6. Deswik follow the Microsoft Windows lifecycle for supported operating systems. For further details please refer to the Windows lifecycle fact sheet available from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet. Deswik recommends your operating system is up to date with vendor approved drivers and BIOS.
Additional specific GPU requirements
Hardware-accelerated texture mapped images
(Optional feature enabled in Tools | Options that improves rendering of very large images)
Support for OpenGL 4.6 and GL_ARB_sparse_texture2 extension
e.g. Nvidia Quadro P or T-series, GTX 10-series, RTX-series, and newer cards
Order Independent Transparency
(Allows drawing of complex overlapping scenarios of multiple transparent figures, and is automatically used when supported)
Support for OpenGL 4.2 and GL_ARB_fragment_shader_interlock extension
e.g. Nvidia Quadro P or T-series, GTX 10-series, RTX-series, and newer cards. Intel Core i3/i5/i7 3rd gen or newer
Point Clouds (Deswik Spatial)
Support for OpenGL 4.5
Point Clouds (Deswik Spatial): Dynamic Filters
Support for OpenGL 4.6, GL_ARB_sparse_texture2 extension, and 4096MB of video RAM
IT infrastructure requirements
Network
Gigabit network (all links) from workstation to file server
File Server
File server to use SAS or SSD hard drives (not Near-line SAS or SATA)
Server requirements for network licensing component (based on 2019.1)
Type
Physical or Virtual
Processor
Dual Core 2.5Ghz
RAM
2GB
Operating System
Windows 2012 R2 Server, or above (64 Bit only)
.NET Framework
4.6 or above