Hardware

This is a simple guide to use Lightsolve. We tried to make Lightsolve as easy and immediate as possible, but it still needs improvements and a lot of testing. This guide is meant as a starting point: try to follow the steps and see if it works, if there's any problem call the IT Proximity Support .

• Make sure you have the required hardware:
  • an High-End Nvidia GTX** 500 or 600, or a Mid/High-End NVidia GTX 700 or 900 with
  • minimum 1GB Video RAM, at least 2 GB highly recommended
  • a good CPU (i5 or i7) 
  • 8 GB or RAM, 16 GB recommended
  • a 64 bit version of Windows (it's the case for all our PCs and Macs)
  • 1 GB free space on your HD, an SSD drive is recommended 
  • several GB of temporary free space on an HD to run the simulations

• Read or print this: http://lightsolve.epfl.ch/downloads/QuickStartGuide.pdf   
• Download and install Lightsolve: http://lightsolve.epfl.ch 
• The Lightsolve icon will be on the desktop, start it, click Update and wait some seconds, then select Local GPU version
  • it will take some seconds as Lightsolve prepares the environment at its first run
• The Lightsolve main window appears, you can now load your model
• If there are issues with loading a SKP file, try converting it to OBJ using the LIPID OBJ Exporter for SketchUp: https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/lipid-obj-exporter-sketchup

** Lightsolve was tested with the following NVidia graphic cards: GTX 980, GTX 980M, GTX 960, GTX 780, GTX 760 Ti, GTX 765M, GTX 760, GTX 680, GTX 660, GT 650, GTX 570, GTX 560 

Green: good user experience with high complexity models
Orange: acceptable user experience with low-medium complexity models 
Red: barely acceptable, ok for a demo