Hikvision Technical Manual
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Chapter 3 Compatible Software/
Hardware Configuration
3.1. Operating System
It is suggested to use Windows 2000 Pro + SP4 or Windows XP + SP2 with DirectX
version 8.1 or above. Card driver and SDK which support Windows Vista or Linux OS will
be released in future.
For Windows 2003 OS, please kindly follow the below operation steps:
1. Right click on Windows Desktop-> Select ―Properties
‖
->Settings-> Advanced->
Troubleshoot->and drag ―Hardware Acceleration
‖
to ―
Full
‖.
2. Click ―Start
‖
-> ―Run
‖
of Windows task bar, input ―dxdiag
‖
and enter DirectX diagnosing
program. Please check if DirectX version is above 8.1. If yes, please kindly refer to
step 3; if not, please upgrade it to version higher than 8.1 first.