System Requirements

Desktop Systems

Updated July 2011


Minimum System Requirements:

  • Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (32bit, SP2 or higher) or Windows® 7 Professional (32bit or 64bit) Operating System
    OR
    Apple® Mac OS X® 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Operating System with Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 2
  • NVIDIA® GeForceR FX series, ATI Radeon® or FireGL® series or equivalent 128 MB 3D video card. Note: video card drivers must be current
  • 1.6 GHz Dual Core Intel® processor or equivalent
  • 1 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 2003 or 2007 (optional, required for GeoTime Excel extension)
  • ESRI ArcGIS Desktop 9.2, 9.3, or 10 (optional, required for GeoTime ArcMap extension)
  • Microsoft .Net Framework v2.0 SP1 (for Excel and ArcGIS 9.x) or v3.5 (for ArcGIS 10)

Unsupported configurations:

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