ArcInfo Workstation 10 system requirements

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Table of Contents

Supported operating systems

Operating system limitations

Hardware requirements

Software requirements

License Manager requirements

Supported operating systems

Supported Operating Systems

Minimum Version

Maximum Version

Sun Solaris 9 (SPARC)

Maintenance Update 3

Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC)

Maintenance Update 4 (8/07)

Windows Server 2003 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter (32 bit and 64 bit [EM64T])

SP2

SP2

Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services

SP2

SP2

Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter (32 bit and 64 bit [EM64T])

SP2

SP2

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter (64 bit [EM64T])

Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional, Home Premium (32 bit and 64 bit [EM64T])

Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise, Business, Home Premium (32 bit and 64 bit [EM64T])

SP2

SP2

Windows XP Professional Edition, Home Edition (32 bit)

SP3

SP3

Windows XP Professional Edition, Home Edition (64 bit [EM64T])

SP2

SP2

Hardware requirements

CPU Speed

2.2 GHz minimum; Hyper-threading (HHT) or Multi-core recommended

Processor

Windows: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core Duo, or Xeon Processors; SSE2 minimum

On Windows: Run this Microsoft utility from your Windows command prompt to check your processor.

See Multi-core or multi-CPU support policy.

Solaris: UltraSPARC II, IIi, IIe minimum

Memory/RAM

2 GB minimum

Display Properties

24-bit color depth

Screen Resolution

1024 x 768 recommended minimum at normal size (96 dpi)

Swap Space

Determined by the operating system; 500 MB minimum.

Disk Space

Windows: 820 MB

Solaris: 770 MB; Core Only: 625 MB

An additional 100 MB is required for all samples.

User Interface

Solaris: X Windows with a Desktop Environment. The Java Desktop Environment (based on Gnome) meets the X Windows requirement. Note: CDE on Solaris 10 has been deprecated by Sun.

Software requirements

Microsoft WinHelp patch for Windows 7 and Windows Vista:

The following Microsoft patch is recommended, but not required, when using ArcGIS Desktop, ArcInfo Workstation, ArcGIS Engine, or ArcReader on Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7. ArcGIS Desktop, ArcInfo Workstation, ArcGIS Engine, and ArcReader provide pop-up context sensitive help topics for tools, commands, and dialog boxes delivered using WinHlp32. WinHlp32 will not function on Windows 7 and Windows Vista without this patch. Here is Microsoft Knowledge Base article 917607 about this patch, which also contains links so you can download the patch. If you access pop-up context sensitive help without this patch being present, you will get a message from Windows prompting you to download the patch. For best usability, we recommend installing the patch at the time you install ArcGIS. For additional information, please refer to Esri Knowledge Base article 32530.

Printer support

Windows

ArcGIS supports printing to any Microsoft certified Windows printer using the native driver in ArcGIS. Please note that some printer drivers do not support complex maps, and the ArcPress printer driver or additional hardware may be needed for these complex maps.

  • Esri recommends the following configuration when printing large maps with the ArcPress printer drivers:

    • Pagefile system size of 4,096 MB is recommended. ArcPress depends on being able to acquire potentially large contiguous blocks of memory to process a map. The windows limit is 2,048 MB and having a pagefile.sys file of at least twice that size helps ensure that other applications running and using the pagefile system will not introduce an unexpected limit for the ArcPress printer driver.
    • Pagefile system should be stored on a dedicated partition or, if possible, a dedicated drive. This will prevent the file from becoming fragmented and diminishing ArcPress's ability to acquire contiguous blocks of memory.
    • If large complex maps do not print, then reboot the computer to ensure the pagefile system is cleared. If the pagefile system is not a dedicated drive or partition, make sure that drive does not need to be defragmented.
    • Disk Space: at least 10 GB of free space is required on the drive where %TEMP% is located, as potentially large temporary files will be written there while ArcPress is processing a map for printing.

Unix

Please note that some printer drivers do not support complex maps, and the ArcPress printer driver or additional hardware may be needed to print complex maps.

License Manager 10 system requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Minimum Version

Maximum Version

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS 4 (32 bit and 64 bit)

Update 4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (32 bit and 64 bit)

Base (5.0)

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (32 bit and 64 bit)

SP2

Sun Solaris 10 (64 bit [SPARC])

Maintenance Update 4 (8/07)

Windows Server 2003 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter (32 bit and 64 bit [EM64T])

SP2

SP2

Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter (32 bit and 64 bit [EM64T])

SP2

Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise, Business, Home Premium (32 bit and 64 bit [EM64T])

SP2

SP2

Windows XP Professional Edition, Home Edition (32 bit)

SP3

SP3

Windows XP Professional Edition, Home Edition (64 bit [EM64T])

SP2

SP2

Hardware requirements for License Manager 10 are identical to ArcInfo Workstation 10 hardware requirements.

Operating system limitations

All platforms

Windows

Linux


3/4/2015