System Requirements

Desktop Systems

Updated September 2012


Minimum System Requirements:

  • Microsoft® Windows® XP (32bit, SP3 or higher) or Windows® 7 (32bit or 64bit) Operating System OR Apple® Mac OS X® 10.7 (Lion) Operating System OR Apple® Mac OS X® 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Operating System with Java for OS X Update 2012-005
  • NVIDIA® GeForceR FX series, ATI Radeon® or FireGL® series or equivalent 128 MB 3D video card. Note: video card drivers must be current
  • Minimum supported resolution of 1024x768
  • 1.6 GHz Dual Core Intel® processor or equivalent
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 1 GB of uncompressed hard disk space for GeoTime; an additional 20 GB is required if local maps and imagery are to be installed.
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 web browser or higher, Mozilla® Firefox® 3.0 web browser or higher, or Apple® Safari® web browser
  • Microsoft® Excel 2007 or 2010 (optional, required for GeoTime Excel extension)
  • ESRI ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 or 10 or 10.1 (optional, required for GeoTime ArcMap extension)
  • Microsoft .Net Framework v2.0 SP1 (for Excel and ArcGIS 9.x) or v3.5 (for ArcGIS 10) and v3.5 SP1 (for ArcGIS 10.1)

Unsupported configurations:

  • Intel video adapters and other motherboard integrated
  • PowerPC-based Macintosh systems

Recommended Hardware Components

  • Windows® 7 64bit Operating System
  • 64-bit Intel CPU
    • Intel Core i7-3960X EE or Intel Core i7-3930K recommended
  • 8 GB Ram
  • NVIDIA GTX or better graphics board
    • GTX 670 recommended
  • Monitor capable of 1920 x 1200 resolution