Hardware Requirements

Cadcorp provides the following information as a guide for minimum and recommended hardware for desktop PCs running Cadcorp SIS Desktop or Desktop Express.

All Cadcorp products are supplied in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Cadcorp recommends that wherever possible, the appropriate architecture version matches the operating system.

Minimum

Operating system

 Windows® 7 or above

Processor

12th Generation Intel® Dual Core i5 processor

Memory

8 GB

Disk -Installation

4 GB for software installation

Disk -Data

100GB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s (dependent on local storage)

Recommended

Operating system Windows® 11 (64-bit)

Processor

12th Generation Intel® Dual Core i9 processor

Memory

12 GB

Disk :Installation

4 GB for software installation

Disk :Data

100GB Solid State Drive (dependent on local data storage)

Graphics Card

ASUS Radeon RX 560 4GB

Additional Information:

  • Additional processor power will be required if performing a large number of queries and other processing tasks. Generally it is advantageous to use the most powerful processors with as much memory as possible on 64-bit architecture.
  • SIS Desktop 9 uses multi-threading support for some operations across multiple cores or processors.
  • The minimum specification does not include a graphics card. PCs with on-board and low specification graphics cards should ensure that Map Drawing Engine is set to ‘Simple under Options - Drawing and Printing.
  • The recommended specification includes a high specification graphics card. PCs using such graphics cards should ensure that Map Drawing Engine is set to ‘Hardware accelerated’ under Options - Drawing and Printing.
  • Additional disk space will be required if storing data locally and SSD is recommended.
  • Some datasets can use large amounts of memory. These include internal datasets, BDS files, some raster formats and point data not held in a spatial database.
  • If the Cadcorp OS MasterMap Manager is run on this device, this can require up to 200GB (for a national load) of temporary space to process the data for loading into the database

Network Licence Server

Concurrent licensing requires a network licence server to be installed onto a network accessible machine, ideally with a fixed IP address. All PCs which use Cadcorp SIS Desktop will need access to this network licence server. Related Topics Link IconRelated Topics