Installation Guide (Windows)

This guide helps you install and configure MipMapEngine on Windows.

System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Component	Minimum	Recommended
CPU	Intel i5 or equivalent	Intel i7/i9 or AMD Ryzen 7/9
Memory	16 GB	32 GB or more
GPU	NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti	NVIDIA RTX 3070 or higher (Gaussian splatting requires compute capability 7.0+)
Storage	500 GB free space	2 TB SSD

Supported GPUs

MipMapEngine currently supports NVIDIA GPUs only

GPU architecture: Compute Capability ≥ 5.0 (Gaussian splatting ≥ 7.0)
VRAM: GPU VRAM ≥ 4 GB

Driver Version Requirements

Windows: NVIDIA driver ≥ 528.33
Linux: NVIDIA driver ≥ 525.60.33

Windows Installation

Step 1: Check the System Environment

bash

# Check NVIDIA GPU model and driver version
nvidia-smi

Step 2: Install the SDK

Download the latest SDK package from the MipMap Engine SDK download page.

Extract the SDK package. The directory layout is as follows:

📁 Directory structure

After installation, the SDK directory layout is:

├── bin/                             
│   ├── reconstruct_full_engine.exe  # Reconstruction executable; all reconstruction steps use this program
│   ├── license_engine.exe           # License management: activate, bind, enumerate licenses
├── gdal_data/                       # GDAL data directory

Step 3: Activate the License

Use the license_engine executable for bind, unbind, and enumerate operations

bash

license_engine --bind xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
license_engine --unbind xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
license_engine --enum lics.json

A return value of 0 from license_engine indicates success; otherwise the operation failed. See error codes for failure codes.

Installation Checklist

NVIDIA GPU driver updated to the required version
SDK files extracted correctly
License activated successfully

Next Steps

Installation complete. You can now:

📚 Read Quick Start to run your first reconstruction task
📚 Read Full-pipeline reconstruction to learn how to use the API

Tip: Problems during installation? See troubleshooting or contact technical support.