Arena Simulation Software Installation Notes

Installation Requirements

Minimum System Requirements

• Arena® software, version 16.20.02
• FactoryTalk® Activation Manager 5.00.12
• Hard drive with 2GB free disk space (or more)
• 8GB RAM (or more)
• Intel® dual-core processor (or more), 3GHz (or faster)
• Microsoft Office® (to view the new model statistics report Excel spreadsheet).

Arena supports Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise, Office 2016/2019/2021 (Consumer Version2009 or later). Other versions of Office, for example Office Pro Plus 2019 C2R, are not officially supported but may work with the installation of Access 2013 Runtime.

Recommended System Requirements

• Arena® software, version 16.20.02
• Hard drive with 4GB free disk space (or more)16GB RAM (or more)
• Intel® dual-core processor (or more), 3GHz (or faster)
• Internet access for installing FactoryTalk activations

Graphics Configuration

Applicable for the Arena Visual Designer tool which is included with Arena.

Minimum Requirements

Graphics card should have 512MB or more of dedicated DDR3 type or better memory.

Below are example graphics cards that meet the minimum requirements

• NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M or better
• NVIDIA NVS 3100M or better
• NVIDIA Quadro PCI-E Series or better
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 or better

Arena Visual Designer performance is dependent upon the OpenGL and graphics card drivers installed on your computer.  Early versions of some graphics card drivers contain issues that can cause Arena Visual Designer to not render graphics properly or generate runtime errors. It is strongly recommended to visit your graphics card vendor's web site to obtain the latest version of your graphics card driver.

Recommended Requirements

• Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL 2.0 compatible
• Pixel and Vertex Shaders 2.0 compatible
• At least a 2GB GDDR5 (Graphics Double Data Rate, version 5) SGRAM; this is a high-performance graphics card. Any graphics card that can be used for extreme gaming will generally fit these criteria

Operating Systems

Arena is a Windows application that runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.

You must have Administrative privileges to install the software.

We support the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows® 10 Pro/Enterprise
• Microsoft Windows® 11 Pro/Enterprise
• Windows® Server 2016
• Arena 32-bit can be installed on x64 versions of Windows and will run as a 32-bit application.
• Arena 64-bit will run as a 64-bit application on x64 versions of Windows.

The Arena software can be run on single processor, multi-processor, and multi-core processor computers.

If you have multiple licenses available, you can run more than one instance of Arena at a time on your computer by going to File>Options>Settings and selecting Enable Multiple Instances.

The Arena Visual Designer tool will take advantage of multi-core capability to maintain graphic update speed.