System Requirements

System requirements for TouchDesigner and TouchPlayer.

Basic Requirements

Older than hereafter specified configurations might work but some features will not be available.

Operating System

• Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and up

• Apple macOS 10.12 and up (See also macOS)

Graphics Cards

A minimum of 1GB GPU memory and use of the most recent Nvidia drivers, AMD drivers or Intel drivers is recommended. TouchDesigner uses OpenGL. Desktop Cards

• Nvidia GeForce 600 Series Card or better
• AMD HD 7000 Series Card or better

Workstation Cards

• Nvidia Quadro K Series Card or better
• AMD W or V Series Card or better

Integrated Graphics NOTE: Not all features are supported on integrated video chipsets and there is a lower expectation on overall performance.

• Intel HD4000, HD5000 and above

Input Devices

• A three-button mouse with scroll-wheel is required.

Feature Specific Requirements

• Movie File In TOP - H.264 and H.265 hardware accelerated decoding
  • Nvidia GPU only
• Movie File Out TOP - H.264 and H.265 encoding
  • Nvidia GPU only
• Nvidia Flow TOP
  • Nvidia GPU only
• CUDA in C++ TOP
  • Nvidia GPU only
• DirectX In TOP and DirectX Out TOP
  • DirectX 9.0 and higher
• Photoshop In TOP
  • Adobe Photoshop CS6 and up
• SVG TOP
  • Nvidia GPU only
• Geometry COMP Texture Instancing
  • Nvidia GPU only
• Window COMP Hardware Frame Lock
  • Nvidia Quadro Sync or AMD S400 only
• Kinect 2 Support
  • Windows 8 and up
  • dedicated USB 3.0 Controller
• Kinect Azure TOP / Kinect Azure TOP - Body tracking and Player Index support
  • Nvidia GPU is the only useful option, the CPU-based option is too slow for most use cases.
• Leap Motion
  • Leap Motion Skeletal Tracking v2 SDK
• Oculus Rift
  • Oculus Rift DK2 or CV1

The Graphics Processing Unit. This is the high-speed, many-core processor of the graphics card/chip that takes geometry, images and data from the CPU and creates images and processed data.