Graphic cards should support at a minimum OpenGL version 2.1 cards not meeting this recommendation will have limited functionality and poor performance, particularly when rendering in OpenGL mode.In general, the more powerful your video card is, the better your Vectorworks experience will be. These new features have the potential to provide a very fast and fluid experience if used on capable hardware, or a noticeably slower experience if used on older or incompatible hardware. The performance and quality of the graphics provided by the new Vectorworks Graphics Module depend directly on the speed, memory, and supported extensions of the graphics card. IMPORTANT – Like past releases, Vectorworks added improvements which placed still higher demands on graphic hardware.
VRAM: 1GB (minimum), 2GB-4GB (recommended) ( More Info) Likewise, there are some less demanding situations where Vectorworks will perform well on older hardware.Ħ4-bit Intel Core i5 (or AMD equivalent), Intel Xeon E4 series or betterĨGB – 16GB recommended for large files and complex renderings.Ī dedicated graphics card is highly recommended. In some demanding cases, we would suggest a more capable machine than is described by these recommendations.
The following are real-world system recommendations for running Vectorworks 2016.