DAZ Studio System Requirement: Windows
There is a My Computer icon in Windows XP, just right click it. (If you can't find it, Click 'Start' button and it will be there.) Click Properties in the menu pop-up. It will show a Control Panel that indicates your PC OS version and type, your PC CPU speed (normally in MHz), and build-in memory capacity (RAM) in MB.
When you want to check the available sizes of your hard disk, fire-up My Computer icon and right click it from Hard Disk icon and select Properties.
If you can run DAZ Studio, it will show you your video hardware from DAZ Studio's menu Help>About Your Video Card. You can easily to find the Video manufacturer, model, driver version, and which GL graphics capabilities it has.
If you do not have DAZ Studio installed or you do not know exactly video card information by right-click on your desktop (normally in the empty area with no icon), select Properties from the menu pop-up, click on the Settings Tab, your display and adapter models will be listed there. On that page please click the Advanced button > the Adapter Tab > Properties where the General and Driver Tabs show manufacturer name, model number, bus(socket) type and driver version number. Beware: Do not change any driver settings if you don't know what that means.
One conflict is the VIA/S3 brand of GPU give insufficient OpenGL support for useful DAZ Studio running. An updated drivers have corrected this in some circumstances (You can download from http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2) but most of cases VIA/S3 cards will not work with DAZ Studio, causing errors in nbicdnt.dll. So please use the big brands, such as ATI and Nvidia.
DAZ Studio System specification: Macintosh
Simply click the Apple icon in the top-left of the screen (menu bar left end), select "About this Mac" from the menu bar. A pop-up appears shows a list of your OS version, processor and RAM information. Then click the 'More Info...' button to run System profiler application: please take a look where Hardware>Graphics/Displays or Hardware>Serial-ATA for your video card type and Network>Volumes for your Hard drives.
