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February 28, 2017
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CC2017 System Requirements for Mac

  • February 28, 2017
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Hi,

I have a late 2009 Imac 27" which seems to meet of the system requirements for CC2017. It is upgraded to 16gb ram, has a 500Gb ssd hard drive and I am running OSX 10.11. The processor is multi core 2.66ghz I5. I need to run Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign & Lightroom.

When I have been researching the system requirements for each application I see for Illustrator and Indesign it states "Optional: To use GPU Performance, your Mac should have a minimum of 1024 MB of VRAM (2 GB recommended), and your computer must support OpenGL version 4.0 or greater."

My Graphics card design does not meet this requirement. It is only OpenGL version 3.3. My question is will I still be able to install and run these programs. I am a little confused by the term optional. Can you still run these programs but not use the features used by a higher rated card.

Photoshop needs OpenGL 2.0-capable system which my graphics card is so, in theory I should be able to run it with no issues.

Any help or useful advice would be greatly received!!!

Many Thanks,

Matthew

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Correct answer MBorowiec

You shall download and install free trial version of Adobe CC apps, and try just Yourself

It's free of charge, and tells everything about compatibility and performance on Your hardware.

Just give it a test run, and of You go.

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MBorowiec
MBorowiecCorrect answer
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February 28, 2017

You shall download and install free trial version of Adobe CC apps, and try just Yourself

It's free of charge, and tells everything about compatibility and performance on Your hardware.

Just give it a test run, and of You go.

Eternal Warrior
Eternal Warrior
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February 28, 2017

Just to weigh in on this conversation...

To clarify...Your specs should be able to deal with CC2017... GPU performance doesn't have to be a critical issue. Adobe is pretty good at running on most spec PC's however this obviously will vary in performance and usability from PC to PC.

So yes you should still be able to run these programs.

Some features may however be inaccessible or much slower due to potentially incompatible/unavailable requirements.

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