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Forum → How Do I... & Other Questions → Recorder 6 PC requirements - standalone
Hello,
My question is directed to anyone who is using Recorder 6 on a 'standalone' machine. I am trying to find out what is the level of the PC specfication you are using? Disk, memory, processer etc. Also, what levelof Windows are you using? XP, Vista? etc.
I am trying to find out what base level of machine I need to get to,to succesfully operate Recorder 6.
Thanks
Gary P
Gary,
If you are about to purchase a new PC, then even cheap ones (for example, the ones costing in the region of £329 from Dell) will be able to run Recorder 6 exceptionally well.
For your £329 you get:
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core E5200 processor (2.5GHz, 800MHz, 2MB cache)
3GB RAM
320GB Hard Disk
You don't get a monitor, though. Point being, you can buy any new PC these days and it'll run Recorder just fine. Just make sure you get at least 2GB of RAM and you should be good to go.
Regarding whether to specify XP or Vista, at this stage I would recommend Vista because you'll get a free upgrade to the forthcoming (in the Autumn) Windows 7, which sorts out many of the niggles people have had with Vista. I would definitely not recommend XP as it is now 9 years old, is not as secure as Vista/Windows 7, and just doesn't run as well on new hardware as the newer operating systems. I run XP here at work on my new Dell quad-core workstation and in my own experience it now has more problems than running either Vista and Windows 7 on my (much slower!) home systems, plus I find Vista/Win 7 (Win 7 in particular) to be much 'smoother' in operation on a well specified machine (although XP does still run much better on slower, older machines that lack RAM). In short, if you're buying a new machine, specify Vista with a view to upgrading to Windows 7 when it is release in the Autumn. The upgrade is free if you buy a Vista-equipped system, so you have nothing to lose.
Charles
The official system requirements are in the Recorder 6 installation guides which can be accessed via the NBN Forum - see http://forums.nbn.org.uk/viewtopic.php?pid=2013#p2013 - although Charles' recommendations are definitely worth noting.
For a standalone installation they are:
The following guidelines illustrate the specification of machines that will give reasonable performance in Recorder 6. It is possible to use lower specification machines although the performance is reduced. Using less than 256 MB RAM on a machine running MSDE provides very poor performance in most cases.
Processor Intel Pentium 3 processor or later, 800 MHz minimum
Memory 512 MB RAM
Hard disk 3 GB disk space minimum (10 GB recommended)
Software Windows 98 (SP1) or later; Internet Explorer 5 or later
Note that when running Recorder 6 on an old laptop with 256 MB RAM some processes were found to take over twice as long as on a desktop with 512 MB RAM, so the more RAM the better.
If you want to install the current version of Recorder 6 (v6.13) with Vista, instructions are available from http://www.lfield.co.uk/page7a.html . The v6.13 CD will install MSDE (the free run-time version of SQL Server 2000), if required. The next version, v6.14 due out next month, will install SQL Server Express (the free run-time version of SQL Server 2005), if required. The v6.14 DVDs will also install more effectively with Vista.
Sally
I am assuming that we would need to order new discs for the 6.14 installation when it becomes available. One of the suggestions we have had to counter long start-up times across a network was to install Recorder as a stand-alone on workstations and then repoint each one to the network database, any ideas if this would still be workable with the upgraded version?
Gordon
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