System requirement for ETABS

System requirement for ETABS

Processor

Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64

Recommended: 9th generation Intel Core i5/i7/i9, AMD Ryzen 5/7/9 with Zen 2 architecture, or better desktop CPU

A 64-bit CPU is required

The SAPFire® Analytical Engine includes multi-threaded solvers and algorithms that can take advantage of multi-core CPUs. The design algorithms can also utilize multiple cores.

 

Operating System

Microsoft® Windows 10 or 11 (64 bit)

 

Video Card

Minimum: Supporting 1024 by 768 resolution and 16 bits colors for standard (GDI+) graphics mode

Recommended: Discrete video card with NVIDIA GPU or equivalent and dedicated graphics RAM (512 Mb or larger) for DirectX graphics mode. The card must be DirectX 11 Compatible.

DirectX graphics mode fully utilizes the hardware acceleration provided by a GPU and dedicated graphics RAM.

For better graphics quality in terms of anti-aliasing and line thickness, the device raster drawing capabilities should support legacy depth bias.

 

Memory

Minimum: 8 GB RAM

The problem size that can be solved and the speeds for solution & response recovery increase considerably with more RAM.

 

Disk Space

6 GB to install the software.

Additional space will be required for running and storing model files and analysis results, dependent upon the size of the models

Recommended: 500GB or larger PCIe Solid State Drive (SSD). External and network drives are not recommended