System Requirements for Clients and Stand-Alone Systems

Version

Engineering Base 6.6.0

Date

September 2015

Processor

Third Generation of Intel® Core™ i5-3470 Processor (3.20 GHz, 6 MB Cache)

Dedicated Graphic Adapter recommended

RAM

4 GB (1600 MHz recommended)

Hard disk

Approximately 6 GB are needed for the installation of all software components

Our recommendation is to use at least 1 TB disk

DVD drive

Required for installation only

Operating system

  • Windows Vista* SP2 Business, Ultimate or Enterprise (x86 and x64)

  • Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise (x86 and x64)

  • Windows 8.x Pro and Enterprise (x86 and x64)

  • Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 (x86 and x64, Small Business, Standard, Enterprise and Data Center)

  • Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2

Home Editions (Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Vista) are not supported!

Browser

Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 or later

Components

  • Engineering Base installs Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard. If SQL Server 2014 installed already, Engineering Base creates a new instance.

  • If Microsoft Office Visio (x86) 2010 (Standard or Professional) is not installed, EB will install Office Visio 2010 (x86) Standard and the respective Language Pack.

  • For Microsoft Office Visio 2010 Professional the respective Language Pack must be installed manually.

  • Engineering Base will install the .Net Framework 4.5 if it does not exist.

* The limitations of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in conjunction with SHA-1 certificates you can find here.