Can I run Altium designer on this system

[iman.sedgh]

Hi
I want to see if I can run Altium designer on my laptop (which version)
here is my system information

 Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU       T4200  @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
RAM: 8 Gb DDR3
Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
 Display Memory: 796 MB
it supports direct x 11

[T3sl4co1l]

Maybe.  Altium is notorious for only running usefully fast on NVidia graphics.  I've seen some newer Intel graphics that work fine.  Of that vintage, it's probably a slideshow.

I guess it's not running XP if it's DX11 capable, so any version of Altium should do (XP support ended with AD15).  Can try various versions and see, though.

Tim

[mengfei]

it will crawl as you go along, AD18/ AD19 hogs a lot of memory

[Psi]

It will run.
Your CPU is a little slow, but i ran Altium on a 2.4ghz core2 quad cpu for quite a while and that worked totally fine.
8gb ram is totally fine (unless you plan to make 10 layer BGA boards).

The only real question is how much hardware acceleration it can get from your onboard graphics.
Not something we can predict, just have to try it.
But DX11 support means its not super old, so it may work fine.

The only other thing i would say is that Altium has a habit of crashing randomly more than normal if you run it on odd hardware.
Sometimes you get lucky though.
The usual solution to repeated Alitum crashes is to get an Nvidia gfx

[iman.sedgh]

thanks all for reply
so I think there isn't any problem if I install Altium 16 or older and design 2-3 layer PCBs

Am I right?

[thm_w]

thanks all for reply
so I think there isn't any problem if I install Altium 16 or older and design 2-3 layer PCBs

Am I right?

Yes
And can always turn off extra features like live DRC, trace highlighting, etc. to speed it up depending on preferences.