Installation Guide : System Requirements 3 - 10
3 System Requirements
Wintel platforms tend to increase in number of cores, speed and performance at a tremendous rate. New and
faster processors are released almost on a monthly basis. Therefore we have not included suggested Motherboard
or Processor specifications here.
We maintain a list of up to date PC configurations in the Support Section of our website at:
http://www.merging.com/pages/pcconfig
Other Components
•Graphics Card: In many situations the Intel Integrated Graphics (where supported by the motherboard
and CPU) are perfectly adequate. If a graphics card is desired or required Merging recommend the ATI
FIREPRO series of PCIe graphics cards. NVidia graphics cards are NOT compatible with MassCore.
• Sufficient HD space and speed for your audio media files. The speed and amount of disk space required
depends on sample rate, wordlength, number of tracks and length of program material.
• A typical 7200 RPM SATA drive is sufficient for 48 tracks at 48 kHz. Higher track-counts and/or higher sam-
pling rates will require an SSD drive and/or multiple drives configured in Raid 0, 1, 10 or 5
• We recommend disks should be formatted as NTFS volumes with 64kB block sectors for audio. For video
128kB block sectors are desirable.
•BD/DVD/CD-ROM combo drive or better
• SXGA 17" monitor or better. Multiple 19” monitors highly recommended.
Minimum resolution 1280x1024
•3buttonmouse
Ovation MassCore Systems
Certified Operating Systems
•OS: We recommend and certify Ovation Version 6.x and later under Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
ONLY.
Note: MassCore - RAVENNA is ONLY certified under Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
Ovation Native
Certified Operating Systems
•OS: We recommend and certify Ovation Version 6.x under Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and Win-
dows 8.1 Professional 64-bit.
MassCore and Networks
Increase Scheduling Priority
For satisfactory operation over a network, you must add the User Group to which the User belongs to “Increase
Scheduling priority policy” with the help of gpedit.msc. If the Machine belongs to a domain the Administrator of
the domain must do this, if not then the Administrator of the system.
