====== Requirements ======

**This is an archive for Gestureworks 1.**
To learn about the new Gestureworks, see the [[http://gwiki.gestureworks.com/|Gestureworks 2 Wiki]]

Gestureworks Core has an extremely low CPU footprint and can effectively be run in the background on virtually any PC. As such the hardware requirements or minimum specification to run Gestureworks Core are the same as that of the minimum recommended specification for Windows 7 machines:

===== Windows =====

  * 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
  * 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
  * 1 GB available hard disk space
  * DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
  * Multitouch input device (2 points or more)

To really take advantage of the full capabilities of Gestureworks Core we recommend that you use a Windows 8* machine with:

  * 3 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 64-bit (x64) Multi-core processor or a processor multi-physical CPU’s
  * 8 gigabyte RAM
  * 1 GB available hard disk space
  * 1 GB graphics card
  * Multitouch input device<nowiki>**</nowiki> (10 points or more)


(<nowiki>*</nowiki> Not including Windows RT)
(<nowiki>**</nowiki> For more information on supported multitouch hardware, please see [[multitouch_hardware|Multitouch Hardware]])

For detailed software requirements and IDE set up information please see the [[tutorials|Gestureworks Core tutorials]].
 
Note: GestureWorks Core requires the [[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784|Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2013]].