DeskArtes Industrial Design System

Supported hardware / operating system configurations

The machine models and graphics types listed in this document are the ones that have been tested by DeskArtes or its partners to be suitable for DeskArtes IDS use. The list is not complete and also many other machine or graphics types will probably work ok with DA IDS.

To make the list to cover larger set of  all the possible hardware/OS combinations you can send information of the combinations working well with DeskArtes IDS to email address support@deskartes.fi. The information will be then added to the list.


PC / Windows

Desktop machines:

ManufacturerModel Processor Memory Graphics Operating system
Morse Value Line AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 4 GB ATI Radeon X1600 Windows XP Professional SP2
Intel DP965LT Intel Core2 CPU 4300 1.80GHz 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce 7600GS Windows XP Professional SP2
Morse Value Line AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 1 GB ATI Radeon 9800 SE Windows 2000 Professional SP4

Portable machines:

Manufacturer Model Processor Memory Graphics Operating system
Acer Aspire 5630 Intel Core2 CPU T5500 1.66GHz 1 GB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 Windows XP Professional SP2
ASUS A6000 Intel Core2 Duo T2400 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 Windows XP Professional SP2
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V7010 Intel Mobile Pentium 4 1 GB ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 Windows XP Professional SP2


Notes on Windows versions:

Windows Vista

Deskartes IDS is currently not supported on either 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows Vista.

Windows XP (64-bit)

Deskartes IDS is not currently supported on 64-bit version of Windows XP.

Windows XP (32-bit)

There has been problems running background commands on some Deskartes IDS installations on 32-bit version of Windows XP. In this case for example the image conversion commands from the File Window middle list menu fail, with the error message like "[1] + Done(134) ? 2816 Abort Rgb2Bmp" in the IDS startup window. Currently there is no solution known to this problem.

Windows 2000

With some graphics adapters there has been problems in window refreshing when running Deskartes IDS on Windows 2000. Usually those problems can however be fixed by decreasing the hardware acceleration of the graphics adapter or changing its color depth. In most cases the 24-bit or 32-bit true color has worked best.


Notes on graphics adapters:

ATI Radeon 9700 Pro

With older driver the default hardware acceleration settings of the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro cause drawing errors in DeskArtes IDS. Disabling the acceleration for OpenGL antialiasing partly fixes the problem, but that also slows down the graphics speed substantially. The problem can be fixed by upgrading the driver from ATI web-site (to version 6.14.01.6255).

Intel 855G/865G (Extreme Graphics)

DeskArtes IDS with the Exceed 5.1.3 cannot be run on machines having Intel 855G/865G graphics adapter. The 3D Extensions of the Exceed version 5.1.3, which is included in the DeskArtes IDS installation media, cannot provide OpenGL functionality with this graphics. As result of this only the "wireframe" and "box" drawing modes are available in IDS.

There is currently no solution known to this problem with the Exceed 5.1.3. The problem can however be fixed by running Exceed 6 with the runtime support for Exceed 5 programs.

General requirements for PC / Windows platform:




Apple Macintosh / Mac OS X

Desktop machines:

ManufacturerModel Processor Memory Graphics Operating system
Apple iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 3,06 GHz 4 GB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 512 MB VRAM Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard
Apple Mac mini Intel Core Solo 1,5 GHz 512 MB Intel GMA 32 MB DDR SDRAM Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard
Apple Mac mini Intel Core Solo 1,5 GHz 512 MB Intel GMA 32 MB DDR SDRAM Mac OS X 10.4.7 Tiger
Apple Mac Pro 2 x Dual-Core Intel Xeon 2,66 GHz 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB VRAM Mac OS X 10.4.9 Tiger
Apple iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2,16 GHz 1 GB ATI Radeon X1600 256 MB VRAM Mac OS X 10.4.10 Tiger
Apple eMac PowerPC G4 1 GHz 384 MB ATI Radeon 7200 32 MB DDR SDRAM Mac OS X 10.3.3 Panther
Apple Apple PowerMac G5 2 x PowerPC G5 2 GHz 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64 MB DDR SDRAM Mac OS X 10.3.5 Panther

Portable machines:

Manufacturer Model Processor Memory Graphics Operating system
Apple MacBook Pro 17" Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512 MB VRAM Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard
Apple Powerbook G4 17" PowerPC G4 1.33 GHz 1 GB ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 64 MB DDR SDRAM Mac OS X 10.3.4 Panther

General requirements for Apple Mac OS X platform:



Notes on Mac OS X versions:

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard):

The Apple X11 is as default included in the Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) installation. Therefore it is not included in the DeskArtes IDS/RT installation package for Mac OS X 10.5.

If you have done a modified installation of Mac OS X 10.5 and left out the X11, you should install that first from the Mac OS X 10.5 installation media (DVD), before installing the DeskArtes IDS/RT.

Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger):

The DeskArtes IDS/RT installation package for Mac OS X 10.4 only supports the Intel machines.

If you have a machine with a PowerPC processor, you can install the DeskArtes IDS/RT from the installation package for Mac OS X 10.3. The X11 version included in that package however works only with Mac OS X 10.3, so you need to install the X11 from the Mac OS X 10.4 installation media (DVD). Then use the modified installation type for installing the DeskArtes IDS/RT and leave the X11 out from that installation.

Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther):

The DeskArtes IDS/RT installation package for Mac OS X 10.3 only supports the PowerPC machines. If you have a machine with an Intel processor, you need to upgrade to at least Mac OS X 10.4 to be able to run the DeskArtes IDS/RT.



SGI / Irix

Operating system Tested hardware Graphics
Irix 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 Indy PC, Indy SC
Indigo2
Indy 8-bit, 24-bit
XGE, XL, XZ, Extreme
Solid Impact, High Impact, Maximum Impact
Irix 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 Indy R5000, Indigo2 R10000 Indy 8-bit, 24-bit
XGE, XL, XZ, Extreme
Solid Impact, High Impact, Maximum Impact
Irix 6.3, 6.5 O2 O2 CRM

General requirements for sgi Irix platforms:



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