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Check the required hardware requirements and specifications below to verify your computer's compatibility and ensure optimal performance with our software.

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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.

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vCAD

Deswik vCAD

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.

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vSched

Deswik vSched

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.

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System specifications

Minimum and recommended specs

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

Workstation requirements

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:

  • Nvidia or AMD cards are supported BUT Nvidia cards are preferred and have proven to provide better performance with Deswik.Suite.
  • Intel integrated graphics cards are supported on a “reasonable efforts” basis and only under the following conditions:

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.

  • All video cards must support OpenGL 4.3 or above. Video card drivers need to be up to date (no more than 12 months old).
  • Please note additional GPU requirements for specific features are listed in the table Additional Specific GPU Requirements.

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

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

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)

Based on 2019.1

Server requirements for network licensing component

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

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