Validate ArcGIS Pro system requirements manually

Summary

Sometimes, the Verify your computer's ability to run ArcGIS Pro utility cannot be downloaded or executed to check if your computer meets the system requirements to run ArcGIS Pro. This article is intended to help with how we can manually perform this verification.

Procedure

Hardware Requirements

Open Settings > System > About, or simply type About Your PC in the Windows Search bar. In the About section, validate the following requirements:

• Processor: CPU
• Installed RAM: Memory/RAM
• System type: Platform
• Edition: Operating System

Dedicated graphics memory

Open the Task Manager > Performance tab and search for the non-integrated GPU to verify the Dedicated GPU memory.

DirectX and OpenGL

In the Windows search bar, type dxdiag to open the DirectX Diagnostic Tool window. On the System tab, verify the DirectX version.

For more information, see: How To: Check the graphics card type and OpenGL version

Microsoft Software

The Microsoft .NET 8.x and Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime should be listed in Control Panel > Programs & Features:

This can also be checked by running the command dotnet --list-runtimes in the Command Prompt, as follows:

C:\Users\username>dotnet --list-runtimes

NVIDIA GPU with CUDA

If ArcGIS Deep Learning is required or it is necessary to accelerate some Spatial Analyst tools, an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA should be installed before ArcGIS Pro. From the Command Prompt, run the command nvidia-smi and if the CUDA Version is shown in the resulting table, the NVIDIA GPU is probably supported:

Now browse to CUDA - Wikipedia and in the GPUs Supported section, in the 'Compute Capability (CUDA SDK support vs. Microarchitecture)' table, find if your NVIDIA GPU is supported with a compatible compute capability (version). Note that ArcGIS Pro 3.3 requires NVIDIA GPU with CUDA compute capability 5.0 minimum, 6.1 or later is recommended. If you do not know the NVIGIA GPU product, open the Device Manager from the Windows Search bar, and expand Display Adapters.

In the following image, a machine has the NVIDIA T600 Laptop GPU shown in the Device Manager window.

This GPU uses the Turing microarchitecture and is compatible with the compute capability (version) 7.5, according to the NVIDIA Developer reference, Your GPU Compute Capability, so it meets the CUDA requirement, as shown in the image below.