System Requirements

The following are the minimum recommended hardware and software requirements for FARO Zone 3D.

The latest product requirements are on the FARO knowledgebase:

Hardware

Computer	64-bit computer system running on a Windows PC. FARO Zone 3D requires direct access to a video card. It is not Virtual Machine (VM) compliant.
Operating System	Windows 10 (and later) (64 bit)
Memory	64GB+ System RAM
Storage	12GB+ for installation and 1TB+ on SSD free for processing of images/point cloud data
Mouse	Two-button mouse with a mouse wheel 3Dconnexion mouse (optional) for 3D navigation
Graphics Card/Video	Direct 11 compatible graphics card, such as an NVIDIA® Quadro 2000, GeForce 400+, RadeonHD4000+, or better The FotoPoints feature requires an NVIDIA graphics card that supports CUDA with compute capability 3.0 and higher. To make sure your GPU is supported, see the list of NVIDIA graphics card that support CUDA.

Please note the following:

You can install FARO Zone 3D on hardware-compatible Mac systems running Bootcamp; however a Macintosh OS version of FARO Zone 3D is not available.
Power Save Mode can affect performance. Set your high-end graphics card to High Performance settings.
Intel HD graphics cards are not supported. If your system has both an Intel graphics card and a high-end graphics card (NVIDIA recommended), you may see an error prompt. If so, you will need to change the Primary Graphics device to the dedicated high-end card.

In addition to the base requirements, VR features require:

Your system must meet any additional system requirements specified for your VR headset. Check the system requirements for your VR headset.

Wireless VR headsets are not supported.