System Requirements
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System requirements for TouchDesigner and TouchPlayer.
Basic Requirements[edit]
Older than hereafter specified configurations might work but some features will not be available.
Operating System[edit]
- Microsoft Windows 8.1 / Windows 10
- Apple macOS 10.12 and up (See also macOS)
Graphics Cards[edit]
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[edit]
- A three-button mouse with scroll-wheel is required.
Feature Specific Requirements[edit]
- Movie File In TOP - H.264 and H.265 hardware accelerated decoding
- Windows OS & Nvidia GPU only
- Movie File Out TOP - H.264 and H.265 encoding
- Windows OS & Nvidia GPU only
- Video Stream Out TOP - Uses H.264 encoding
- Windows OS & Nvidia GPU only
- Face Track CHOP and Face Track SOP
- Windows OS & Nvidia RTX GPU only.
- Mesh fitting using the Face Track SOP requires a compatible mesh file that can be downloaded from external sources.
- Nvidia Background TOP
- Windows OS & Nvidia RTX GPU only.
- Nvidia Denoise TOP
- Windows OS & Nvidia RTX GPU only.
- Nvidia Flex
- Windows OS & Nvidia GPU only
- Nvidia Flow TOP
- Windows OS & Nvidia GPU only
- Notch TOP - Playback Notch blocks
- Windows OS
- Scalable Display TOP
- Windows OS
- CUDA in C++ TOP
- Windows OS & Nvidia GPU only
- DirectX In TOP and DirectX Out TOP
- Windows OS & DirectX 9.0 and higher
- Photoshop In TOP
- Adobe Photoshop CS6 and up
- SVG TOP
- Windows OS & Nvidia GPU only
- Geometry COMP Texture Instancing
- Windows OS & Nvidia GPU only
- Window COMP Hardware Frame Lock
- Windows OS & Nvidia Quadro Sync or AMD S400 only
- Pangolin CHOP - Drive Pangolin lasers through their Beyond software.
- Windows OS
- RealSense CHOP - Skeleton and face tracking with old legacy RealSense devices.
- Windows OS
- Kinect 2 Support
- Windows OS - 8 or 10
- dedicated USB 3.0 Controller
- Kinect Azure TOP / Kinect Azure CHOP - Body tracking and Player Index support
- Windows OS
- Nvidia GPU is recommended, but AMD and Intel graphics cards are now supported. CPU-based option is too slow for most use cases.
- Leap Motion
- Leap Motion Orion 4.0 SDK - Windows OS
- Leap Motion Skeletal Tracking v2 SDK - Windows OS or macOS
- NatNet In CHOP - Receives tracking data from OptiTrack systems.
- Windows OS
- Oculus Rift
- Windows OS
- Oculus Rift DK2 or CV1
- OpenVR - HTC Vive or other OpenVR supported HMDs.
- Windows OS
- ZED - TOP, CHOP, and SOP that access ZED devices.
- Windows OS