Discovery-explore is not available

- February 8, 2023 at 8:50 am
  
  Pedro Álvarez
  Subscriber
  
  When I start up ansys discovery and try to import a STEP design,the program does not show the design and the following error appears on the bottom of the screen:
  -Explore is not available due to an incompatible graphics device or an out of date graphics driver. Update....
  -A translation report is available at ...
- February 9, 2023 at 9:08 am
  Naresh Patre
  Ansys Employee
  Hello @Pedro
  
  The Discovery Explore mode requires the following graphics card requirements:
  - Discrete NVIDIA GPU, Maxwell series or newer (Pascal series or newer preferred)
  - 4 GB dedicated GPU RAM (minimum)
  - 8 GB dedicated GPU RAM (recommended)
  Please check out below article on Hardware requirements posted on Ansys Discovery forum:
  
  Ansys Discovery Hardware Requirements (2023 R1) - Knowledge Base - Ansys Discovery Forum
  
  - Naresh Patre
- December 24, 2023 at 6:33 am
  
  elaine shen
  Subscriber
  
  What type of hardware can be used
- January 2, 2024 at 5:36 am
  
  Naresh Patre
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hello @elaine shen
  
  Please check out the below link for Hardware Requirements:
  
  Ansys Discovery Hardware Requirements (2023 R2) - Ansys Knowledge
  
  Regards,
  Naresh Patre