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This article will cover system requirements for running Verity. Maintaining at least minimum system requirements for Navisworks Manage or Simulate is a good rule of thumb to run Verity effectively.
Verity Hardware Usage Explained
Verity has two separate processes that rely on various hardware of the processing machine. When Adding point cloud data or elements to Verity, or running an Analysis, the CPU and hard drive are the most used.
Verity will attempt to run a Pointsloader.exe per thread of the CPU until it exceeds the max read/write speed of the hard drive where the data is located. If the processing machine has 24 threads on the CPU but a slow hard drive, the hard drive will be the bottleneck. If the processing machine has 4 threads on the CPU but a state-of-the-art NVME solid state drive, then the CPU will be the bottleneck.
RAM will only become a limitation on very large projects but is usually bottlenecked first by the CPU or Hard Drive. If a processing machine has at least 16 GB RAM this should almost never be an issue. If most projects are incredibly large (100GB+ of point cloud data) it might be worth investing in more RAM as a safeguard.
Once Add to Verity and Analyze are finished, the CPU and Hard Drive don’t get used that much anymore by Verity. The main focus for the processing machine will then be rendering. However, the Navisworks rendering will always be more intensive than Verity rendering. If you are able to render point data and geometry sufficiently in Navisworks, Verity will have no issues with rendering.
Recommended Requirements
- OS – Microsoft Windows 11, 10 including Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium editions.
- CPU – 8+ core processor
- RAM – 16+ GB RAM
- GPU – 2+ GB of VRAM
- Hard Drive – SATA Solid State Drive with at least 400/400MBps Read/Write speeds but preferably an NVME Solid State Drive with at least 1000/1000MBps Read/Write speeds.
Minimum Requirements
- OS – Microsoft Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 including Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium editions.
- CPU – 64-bit, dual-core processor
- RAM – 8 GB RAM
- GPU – At least 1 GB of VRAM
- Hard Drive – 7200RPM HDD (while this hard drive will technically work, it will be incredibly slow due to the size and density of point cloud data. It is highly recommended to use a solid state drive in place of a mechanical hard drive).
Network License Server Requirements
Server: The computation is all done client side, while the server hosts the license. The server can be running most operating systems, including most Linux Distros, short of OS X.
Client: The requirements for clients are all based on expected data and budget, save being able to connect to the host device by TCP/UDP, either by LAN or VPN.