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System Requirements
For 32-bit AutoCAD MEP 2012
Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional or Home Premium edition, Windows Vista® (SP2), including Enterprise, Business, Ultimate or Home Premium edition or Windows XP® Professional or Home edition (SP3 or later) (compare Windows Vista versions)
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or greater with SSE2 technology
2 GB RAM (3 GB RAM recommended)
4 GB free disk space for default installation (5 GB for full installation)
1024 x 768 display with true colour (1280 x 1024 true colour recommended)
128 MB graphics card (256 MB or greater recommended), Pixel Shader 3.0 or higher, Direct3D®-capable workstation-class 3D graphics card recommended (currently supported graphics cards)
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later
Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
DVD drive (for installation only)
USB drive (for suites)
For 64-bit AutoCAD MEP 2012
Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional or Home Premium, Windows Vista (SP2), including Enterprise, Business, Ultimate or Home Premium or Windows XP Professional or Home edition (SP2 or later)compare Windows Vista versions)
Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology, Intel Xeon® with Intel EM64T support and SSE2, AMD Opteron™ with SSE2 technology or AMD Athlon™ 64 with SSE2 technology
2 GB RAM (4 GB RAM recommended)
4 GB free disk space for default installation (5 GB for full installation)
1024 x 768 display with true colour (1280 x 1024 true colour recommended)
128 MB graphics card; 256 MB or greater, Direct3D-capable workstation-class 3D graphics card recommended (currently supported graphics cards)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
Microsoft Mouse-compliant pointing device
DVD drive (for installation only)
USB drive (for suites)
Additional Requirements for 3D Modelling
Windows 7 recommended
Intel Pentium 4 processor or AMD Athlon, 3 GHz or greater or Intel or AMD dual-core processor, 2 GHz or greater
4 GB RAM or more
4 GB free disk space for default installation (5 GB for full installation)
1280 x 1024 true colour video display adapter
128 MB or greater graphics card (256 MB recommended), Pixel Shader 3.0 or higher, Direct3D®-capable workstation class graphics card