User guide

Viz Engine Administrator’s Guide

3 Software Setup

This section covers the Prerequisites and supported hardware options for Viz before Viz

is installed, and procedures on how and where to install Viz. It also contains a section

on how to configure Viz Engine to receive clips transferred from Viz One.

This section contains information on the following topics:

• Prerequisites

• Supported Hardware Options

• Installing the Viz Engine

• Installing the License

• Integration with Viz One

3.1 Prerequisites

All Viz Engine or Viz Artist installations run on a Windows XP SP2 and SP3 (32-bit), and

Windows 7 (64-bit) platform.

For Windows 7 the following applies:

• The user must have administrator rights

• User Account Control must be set to Lowest

• Windows 7 theme Aero must be disabled

• There must only be one active network card

• Depending on the User Account Control settings, the configuration and log files may

be created under C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program

Files (x86)\vizrt\Viz3 instead of the Viz Engine installation folder.

• Power management and hibernation mode must be turned off. Execute "powercfg -

h off" to remove hiberfil.sys from the hard disk.

For each machine a default user is defined that has administrator rights on the

machine. The Admin account is as follows:

Computer Users

Username Password Account Type

Admin vizrt Computer Administrator

IMPORTANT! It is highly recommended that these passwords are changed!

To learn more about the different account types, please refer to the Windows operating

system manual, or visit www.microsoft.com.