Setting Up The Computer And Activating Fovex Panomaker - Roundshot VR Drive Metric Instruction Manual

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Setting up the computer and activating FOVEX PanoMaker

1.4.1 Setting up the computer
FOVEX PanoMaker uses GPU processing for high speed stitching and tone-mapping of panoramas.
The following computer configurations are compatible with the software:
Minimum requirements
(for example for a laptop for mobile use)
CPU: Intel or AMD supporting SSE2 instructions (4 cores)
CPU speed: n/a
RAM: 8 GB
OS: Windows 7 (64-bit)
Video Card: NVIDA or ATI (released in 2013 or later) with at least 3 GB memory
Free Disk Space: at least 10 GB (depends on the scope of project/number of images)
Hard Disk: ideally SSD disks for fast image storage
Please make sure to connect the laptop to a power source (mains) when processing
the images. If the laptop runs on battery while processing, the performance of the
video card will be reduced and the stitching will take significantly longer.
Many laptops are equipped with two graphic (video) cards, the less powerful one being
configured for battery use. When setting up the computer please make sure to assign
the more powerful video card to be used with PanoMaker, otherwise the stitching will
not work. This can be done by accessing the control panel of the graphic card by right
mouse click on the desktop.
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