This article provides the system requirements for Autodesk® AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016.
Before installing any Autodesk® products, it is important that you verify that your computer meets, or exceeds, the minimum system requirements for operation. If your system does not meet the minimum requirements, problems can occur while running the product, and at the operating system level.
The following table outlines the hardware and software requirements if you’re running on a system installed with a 64-bit environment.
| System requirements for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 | |
|---|---|
| Operating System | Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Microsoft Windows 8/8.1 Microsoft Windows 8/8.1 Pro Microsoft Windows 8/8.1 Enterprise |
| Processor | Minimum Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor |
| Memory | 4 GB RAM (minimum) 8 GB RAM (recommended) |
| Display Resolution | 1280 x 1024 (1600 x 1200 or higher recommended) with True Color |
| Display Card | Windows display adapter capable of 1280 x 1024 with True Color capabilities and DirectX®9*. DirectX11 compliant card recommended. * DirectX9 recommended by supported OS |
| Hard Disk | 10 GB for installation (downloaded file) 6 GB for program files |
| Pointing Device | MS-Mouse compliant device |
| Media (DVD) | Download and installation from DVD |
| Browser | Internet Explorer® 9.0 (or later) |
| .NET Framework | Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.5 |
| Additional requirements for Large Datasets, Point Clouds and 3D Modeling | |
|---|---|
| Memory | 8 GB RAM or more |
| Disk Space | 6 GB free hard disk available, not including installation |
| Display Card | 1600 x 1050 or greater True color video display adapter; 128 MB VRAM or greater, Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater, Direct3D® capable workstation class graphics card. |
Autodesk is not responsible for errors or failures of Autodesk software arising from the installation of updates, extensions or new releases issued by third party hardware or software vendors for the qualified software or hardware identified in this document (or for any other third party software or hardware that you may use in connection with Autodesk products).