Archicad 15 System Requirements

System:	Windows® XP SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows® Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows® 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) 64-bit system is recommended Note: Archicad 15 was tested by Graphisoft on Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Windows Vista Ultimate, and Windows XP Professional. Not tested editions differ in features that do not affect the correct functionality of Archicad.	Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Only case insensitive file-system volumes are supported.
System:	Note: QuickTime 7 or later and Java 1.6.0 or later are required. Note: Archicad installer will automatically install QuickTime 7 and Java 1.6.12 if they are not present on your computer.
CPU:	Intel® Pentium 4, or compatible processors with equal or higher performance	Mac: Macintosh® with 64-bit Intel® processor (Core2Duo and later)
CPU:	Multicore processor is recommended to exploit Archicad 15 performance capabilities. Read more about multiprocessing.
RAM:	With 64-bit system: 3 GB RAM is required, 6 GB RAM or more is recommended. With 32-bit system: 2 GB RAM is required, 4 GB or more is recommended. The maximum amount of memory Archicad can use on a 32-bit system is 4GB. Read more about this topic.	3 GB RAM is required, 6 GB RAM or more is recommended.
Hard Drive:	5 GB free disk space required for a full installation of Archicad. Additional 10 GB hard disk space required per project for work with complex models and 3D visualization.
Display:	1024×768 resolution is required 1280×1024 or higher is recommended
Video Card:	True Color display adapter is needed. Open GL and DirectX9 compatible graphic card with on-board video memory of 256 MB or more is recommended to fully exploit hardware acceleration capabilities.	Open GL compatible graphic card with on-board video memory of 256 MB or more is recommended to fully exploit hardware acceleration capabilities.
Video Card:	You can find a list of recommended video cards at: Recommended Video Cards for Archicad 15

Requirements for BIM Server

System:	Windows® XP SP3 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows® Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows® 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows Server® 2003, 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit) 64-bit system is recommended Note: The BIM Server for Archicad 15 was tested by Graphisoft on Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition 64-bit, Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition 64-bit, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition 64-bit. Not tested editions of the mentioned non server operating systems differ in features that do not affect the correct functionality of BIM Server.	Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (64-bit) Mac OS X 10.6 Server (64-bit) Only case insensitive file-system volumes are supported.
System:	Note: Java 6 or later are required to run BIM Server. The installer will automatically install Java 6 (build 1.6.12) if it is not present on your computer.
CPU:	Intel® Pentium 4, or higher required	Mac: Macintosh® with 64-bit Intel® processor (Core2Duo and later)
CPU:	Multicore processor is recommended Read more about multiprocessing.
RAM:	4 GB of RAM is required. 8 GB or more is recommended for complex models. Read more about this topic
Hard Drive:	5 GB free disk space is required for the Graphisoft BIM Server installation. 10 GB of disk space (physically located on the server) is required per project.

System Requirements for Previous Versions