System Requirements and Capacity

System requirements

CPU

  • Pentium or better

Operating System

  • Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP (32bit or 64bit), Windows Vista (32bit or 64bit), Windows 7 (32bit or 64bit).

Memory

  • 32 MB for Windows 98, Me or NT
  • 64 MB for Windows 2000, 2003
  • 256 MB Windows XP
  • 512 MB Windows Vista or Windows 7

Disk Space

  • 202 MB of available hard disk space for the EViews executable, supporting files, full documentation, and example files.
  • 75 MB for EViews executable and supporting files only.

Hardware

  • CD-ROM

Capacity

EViews 7 EViews 6 *
Maximum observations per series 4 million (by default), may be increased if desired, subject to memory restrictions 4 million (by default), may be increased if desired, subject to memory restrictions (saving and exporting are only available for dataset with fewer than 1,500 observations per series*)
Total observations: (series x obs per series) limited only by available RAM limited only by available RAM (saving and exporting are only available for dataset with fewer than 15,000 total observations*)
Maximum objects per workfile limited only by available RAM limited only by available RAM (saving and exporting are only available for workfile with fewer than 60 objects*
Maximum objects per database limited to 10 million objects, 64 gigabytes or available disk space Cannot save/store data into database, but can fetch/read from one

* Note: The Student Version places "soft" capacity restrictions on the amount of data (1,500 observations per series, 15,000 total observations, 60 objects) that may be saved or exported. Students may, without restriction, work with larger amounts of data, but workfiles that exceed the soft limits may not be saved nor the data exported.