The PC’ver Stub and GUI software were designed to operate under Windows XP with DirectX version 8 or greater. You must have DirectX 8.0 or higher installed before installing PC’ver.

Use video settings of 1280 x 1024 with 32 bit color and a DPI setting of 96 and the Windows-XP Display "Theme" option set to "Classic".

While no particular service pack is known to be required for PC’ver, all product testing was carried under Windows XP Professional (Version 5.1.2600, Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2).

The PC’ver software have been developed to run on a standard Intel/Windows PC platform with an available USB port and an ethernet network connection.

The minimum hardware requirements are:

• 800 MHz Intel compatible PC
• 128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended for Windows-XP)
• available HDD space of 50 MB
• USB port (USB 1.1 and 2.0 supported)
• standard network interface card (NIC / ethernet)
• video card with a resolution of at least 1024 x 768 (1280 x 1024 recommended)
• mouse
• keyboard
• CD-ROM drive for software installation

While satisfactory performance has been demonstrated on the minimum hardware platform recommended, obviously the faster the platform that PC’ver is run on, the better performance that can be expected.

Actual memory utilization is typically around 5 MB for the PC’ver Stub and 5 to 6 MB for the control GUI.

Performance testing of PC’ver has indicated that the main limiting factor in performance capability is the total PDUs per second on the DIS LAN.

The rule of thumb that stress testing has indicated is the ability to cope with around 4,000 PDUs per second for each GHz of processing power available. That is to say for example, a 2.0 GHz desktop PC should be able to cope with a total volume of DIS traffic of 8,000 PDUs per second.