
The majority of our internal systems utilize dual monitors and we find this to be more productive. We recommend using the automatic detect feature to detect which video card is installed. The latest drivers for NVIDIA and AMD can be found on the manufacturer’s website. We often see issues that are resolved with updated video drivers and the driver version can have a great impact on how the card performs. Make sure you are using up-to-date drivers from your card manufacturer. These do not generally have the capability to drive graphics-intensive applications such as Verisurf. We do not recommend or support the use of onboard graphics found with some PC configurations. We have seen some issues using AMD/ATI Radeon graphics cards.

Other graphics cards can be used, but they must offer full OpenGL 3.2 and OpenCL 1.2 support (typically manufactured by AMD/ATI). We recommend an NVIDIA Quadro card or AMD Firepro Graphics Cards with at least 1 GB of memory. When purchasing a new computer for Verisurf, one of the most important components is the video card. For large point cloud measurement and reverse engineering we recommend 16 GB, 32 GB of RAM, or even more. When Verisurf uses all available RAM it switches to using virtual memory space, which is stored on the hard drive and will dramatically slow the system down. More and more aspects of Verisurf are becoming multi-core processor aware with each release. The processor speed will impact how fast the software will calculate and complete tasks.
