Sony DSC User Manual

The hardware and software requirements for using PictureGear are as follows:
❐ IBM PC/AT or compatible with the following capabilities.

– Minimum 90 MHz Pentium CPU (166 MHz or faster recommended)
– Minimum 32 MB main memory (64 MB or more recommended)
– Minimum 30 MB available hard disk space (for Standard installation)
– Minimum 640 

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 480 pixel Hi Color (16-bit color) display driver capability.

❐ Operating System

Microsoft Windows 95, 98 or NT4.0.

• PictureGear must be installed with a supervisory-level login user name, such as

“Administrator”.

• PictureGear may require about 150 MB of real and virtual memory combined. If

PictureGear is run under Windows NT4.0 with too little memory, a message such as
“Your system is running low on virtual memory. Please close some applications.”
may appear. In this case, close PictureGear immediately, login with a supervisory
level user name, double click the System icon in the Control Panel and increase the
maximum size of virtual memory with the Performance setting.

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To view movies with PictureGear Version 3.2 Lite, the Microsoft DirectX Media Runtime
Version 5.2 (or later) movie support library is required. If no movie support library is
present, it can be installed from the PictureGear CD-ROM. See page 77 for details.

• When using PictureGear, the color palette of the screen should be at least Hi Color

(16-bit color) for proper display.

• The display color settings are made by double clicking the Display icon in the

Windows Control Panel.