System Requirements

This article covers various minimum and recommended system specifications and additional helpful information for optimizing a processing machine for Verity.

Getting Started

This article will cover system requirements for running Verity. Maintaining at least minimum system requirements for the latest AutoDesk software is a good rule of thumb to run Verity effectively. System Recommendations are difficult to provide considering the wide range of project sizes and complexity. Please note that the Minimum and Recommended Specifications that are provided in this article are targeted towards smaller projects (less than 40 scan locations). If you have a project larger than this please consider upgrading from the given recommendations. If you are dealing with extremely large projects consider your budget vs the Large Project Specifications provided below.

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 Specifications

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).

Large Project Specifications

OS – Microsoft Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 including Enterprise, Ultimate, Professional, or Home Premium editions.
CPU - 16+ core processor
RAM - 64+ GB RAM
GPU - 12+ GB VRAM
Hard Drive - NVME M.2 Solid State Drive with 3000/3000MBps Read/Write speeds.

Network License Server Requirements

Server - The computation is 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.

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. For most projects, if a processing machine has at least 32 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 are hardly used anymore by Verity. The main focus for the processing machine will then be rendering. However, the Host rendering will always be more intensive than Verity rendering. If you are able to render point data and geometry sufficiently in your Host software, Verity will have no issues with rendering.