{"id":159723,"date":"2022-09-26T09:53:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/ansys-discovery-hardware-requirements-2022-r2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:01:39","slug":"ansys-discovery-hardware-requirements-2026-r1-2","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/ansys-discovery-hardware-requirements-2026-r1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansys Discovery Hardware Requirements (2026 R1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to installing Discovery, verify that your installation computer meets the following prerequisites.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bold\"><strong>Operating System Requirements<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the following:<\/p>\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul class=\"itemizedlist\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"listitem\">Microsoft\u00ae Windows 11 version 23H2 or later (Professional, Enterprise &amp; Education)<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Microsoft\u00ae Windows Server 2022 (Standard) or Windows Server 2025 (Standard)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"bold\"><strong>System Requirements<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul class=\"itemizedlist\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"listitem\">64-bit Intel or AMD system<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Disk Space and Memory:\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul class=\"itemizedlist\" type=\"circle\">\n<li class=\"listitem\">16 GB RAM or greater<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">32 GB disk space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"bold\"><strong>Cloud Burst Computing Requirements<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Requirements for a successful burst-to-cloud experience are described in\u00a0<a class=\"ulink\" href=\"https:\/\/ansyshelp.ansys.com\/public\/account\/secured?returnurl=\/Views\/Secured\/cloudsub\/v000\/en\/cloudsub_ug\/cloudsub_ug\/requirements_for_cloud_burst_computing.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Requirements for Cloud Burst Computing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bold\"><strong>Video Card Requirements<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>User systems should have a dedicated graphics card for Discovery. As detailed in the table below, Discovery&#8217;s minimum and recommended video card requirements differ depending on the product stage and solver being used.<\/p>\n<p>For information on the most recently tested graphics cards, see the\u00a0<a class=\"ulink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ansys.com\/it-solutions\/platform-support\" target=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\">Platform Support section of the Ansys Website<\/a>\u00a0and view the\u00a0<span class=\"bold\"><strong>Graphics Cards Tested<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0PDF for your release.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;border: 1px solid #000;padding: 10px;margin: 20px\">\n<p><i><b>Note<\/b>: With a 4K monitor, Ansys recommends use of a video card with more than <strong>4 GB<\/strong> of dedicated video memory.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Discovery Stages and Video Card Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"table\">\n<div class=\"table-contents\">\n<table style=\"width: auto\" border=\"1\" summary=\"Discovery Stages and Video Card Requirements\">\n<colgroup>\n<col class=\"c1\" width=\"20%\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<col class=\"newCol2\" width=\"40%\" \/>\n<col class=\"c2\" width=\"40%\" align=\"left\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"padding-left: 40px\" align=\"left\">Discovery Stage and Solver<\/th>\n<th>Minimum Video Card Requirements<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding-left: 40px\" align=\"left\">Recommended Video Card Requirements<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Model stage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\u00a0Dedicated graphics card with the latest vendor drivers supporting OpenGL version 4.6 and a minimum of 2 GB of dedicated video memory<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 40px\" align=\"left\">Dedicated NVIDIA Quadro or AMD Radeon Pro graphics card with the latest vendor drivers supporting OpenGL version 4.6 and a minimum of 4 GB of dedicated video memory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Refine stage with Fluent solver<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Refine stage with MAPDL solver<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Dedicated NVIDIA Quadro or AMD Radeon Pro graphics card with the latest vendor drivers supporting OpenGL version 4.6 and a minimum of 4 GB of dedicated video memory<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 40px\" align=\"left\">Dedicated NVIDIA Quadro or AMD Radeon Pro graphics card with the latest vendor drivers supporting OpenGL version 4.6 and a minimum of 8 GB of dedicated video memory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Explore stage<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Refine stage with LiveGX solver<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Dedicated NVIDIA GPU, Maxwell series or newer<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">4 GB of dedicated video memory<\/p>\n<div class=\"note\" style=\"margin-left: 1rem;padding-left: 40px\" title=\"Note\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;border: 1px solid #000;padding: 10px;margin: 20px\">\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> We recommend you update your graphics card to the latest drivers from the NVIDIA website prior to installation, with the minimum required driver version for minor version compatibility being &gt;=528.33.<\/p>\n<p>With AMD cards and non-compliant NVIDIA cards, Discovery still functions but access to the Explore stage, or to the Refine stage using the LiveGX solver, is disabled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Dedicated NVIDIA GPU, Pascal series or newer<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">8 GB dedicated video memory<\/p>\n<div class=\"note\" style=\"margin-left: 1.3rem;margin-right: 1.3remin\" title=\"Note\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;border: 1px solid #000;padding: 10px;margin: 20px\">\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> We recommend you update your graphics card to the latest drivers from the NVIDIA website prior to installation, with the minimum required driver version for minor version compatibility being &gt;=528.33.<\/p>\n<p>With AMD cards and non-compliant NVIDIA cards, Discovery still functions but access to the Explore stage, or to the Refine stage using the LiveGX solver, is disabled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;border: 1px solid #000;padding: 10px;margin: 20px\"><span class=\"admontitle\"><b>Note:<\/b><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0You can download the latest official NVIDIA drivers from\u00a0<a class=\"ulink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/download\/index.aspx\" target=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\">www.nvidia.com\/download\/index.aspx<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Unsupported Video Cards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following cards are no longer supported at 2026 R1. In general, Discovery maintains support for as long as NVIDIA drivers and SDKs allow:<\/p>\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul class=\"itemizedlist\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"listitem\">Consumer\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul class=\"itemizedlist\" type=\"circle\">\n<li class=\"listitem\">GeForce 600 series (for example, GeForce GT625)\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul class=\"itemizedlist\" type=\"square\">\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GT 630<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GT 640<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GT 730<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GT 740<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (192-bit)<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">ProViz\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul class=\"itemizedlist\" type=\"circle\">\n<li class=\"listitem\">Quadro Kxxx series\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul class=\"itemizedlist\" type=\"square\">\n<li class=\"listitem\">Quadro 410\/420<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Quadro K600\/620<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Quadro K[1\/2\/4]200<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Quadro K2000D<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Quadro K[2\/4\/5]000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Quadro Kx000M series\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul class=\"itemizedlist\" type=\"square\">\n<li class=\"listitem\">Quadro K[1\/2\/3\/4\/5]000M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Quadro Kx100M series\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul class=\"itemizedlist\" type=\"square\">\n<li class=\"listitem\">Quadro K500M<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Quadro K[1\/2\/3\/4\/5]100M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Datacenter\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul class=\"itemizedlist\" type=\"circle\">\n<li class=\"listitem\">GRID K520 (AWS EC2 g2 instance)<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Tesla K10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"bold\"><strong>Miscellaneous Requirements<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"itemizedlist\">\n<ul class=\"itemizedlist\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"listitem\">Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Microsoft ASP.NET Core Runtime 8.0<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Microsoft .NET Runtime 8.0<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Microsoft Visual C++ 2022 x64 Redistributable<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">OpenCL 1.2<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">OpenGL 4.6<\/li>\n<li class=\"listitem\">Windows Media Player is required for viewing the videos that appear on the Ansys Discovery Welcome Screen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Note:<\/strong> Microsoft .NET 8.0 is included with both the full and reduced Discovery installations.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Prerequisite Requirement Checking and Reporting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Upon launching Discovery after installation, prerequisite checking occurs automatically to ensure there are no installation issues that may lead to unexpected behaviors or failures. The results of these checks are reported in several ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you launch Discovery, a dialog box reports any missing or out-of-date prerequisites that were identified.<\/li>\n<li>Results of the prerequisite checks are captured in the Discovery application log.<\/li>\n<li>The SID reports any missing or out-of-date prerequisites that were identified when Discovery was launched, as well as results concerning prerequisite checking specific to the Explore and Refine stages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Reporting Issues to Ansys Customer Support<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you encounter issues running Discovery, follow this procedure:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the Windows command prompt as administrator.<\/li>\n<li>Run this command: &#8220;<em><strong>&lt;ansys-install-location&gt;\/Framework\/bin\/Win64\/Ans.DriverSetup.exe<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; &#8211;check-system-compatibility<\/li>\n<li>Capture the output of the command and include it, along with the Discovery application log, when contacting Ansys customer support.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-159723","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["09-13-2022  20:20:24"],"_bbp_forum_id":["159546"],"_btv_view_count":["95659"],"_edit_lock":["1773219623:3452"],"_edit_last":["3452"],"_bbp_topic_id":["197989"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["30"],"_yoast_wpseo_estimated-reading-time-minutes":["4"],"_yoast_wpseo_wordproof_timestamp":[""],"_application_name":["field_64a80903c8e15"],"_family":["field_64a809229a857"],"siebel_km_number":[""],"_siebel_km_number":["field_63ecbffce60db"],"salesforce_km_number":[""],"_salesforce_km_number":["field_63ecc018e60dc"],"km_published_date":[""],"_km_published_date":["field_64c77704499dd"],"_product_version":["field_64c776cb4fd2e"],"family":["Discovery Products"],"application_name":["installation"],"product_version":["2022R2"],"filter_by_optics_product":["Lumerical"],"_filter_by_optics_product":["field_64fb192ba3121"],"_wp_old_slug":["ansys-discovery-hardware-requirements-2022-r2","ansys-discovery-hardware-requirements-2024-r1","ansys-discovery-hardware-requirements-2024-r2-2"],"_bbp_likes_count":["1"],"_aioseo_title":[null],"_aioseo_description":[null],"_aioseo_keywords":["a:0:{}"],"_aioseo_og_title":[null],"_aioseo_og_description":[null],"_aioseo_og_article_section":[""],"_aioseo_og_article_tags":["a:0:{}"],"_aioseo_twitter_title":[null],"_aioseo_twitter_description":[null]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/159723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/159723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197989,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/159723\/revisions\/197989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}