# Getting your hardware ready to run LightAct

These documents will tell how you can prepare your hardware to run LightAct successfully and to make sure you don't have any unexpected behaviour.

## Minimum system requirements

* Windows 10 or later
* A discrete Nvidia graphics card
* At least 8 GB of RAM

## Recommended system requirements

* Professional Quadro/RTX NVidia GPU
* At least 64 GB of RAM
* Fast NVMe media drives for video playback
* Fast CPU with a medium amount of cores.

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Please note, we are not able to provide a more detailed hardware specifications than what's written above.

If you don't have extensive experience in building multimedia systems, we advise you to opt for [LightAct Hardware](https://lightact.com/hardware/).
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## Prerequisites

* CodeMeter User Runtime. If you are getting a missing WibuCM64.dll error message, it means you need to install this.
* .NET Framework 3.5
* .NET Framework 4.8
* .NET SDK 6.0. for 64bit
* .NET SDK 7.0. for 64bit
* Visual C++ Redistributable 2010 for 64bit
* Visual C++ Redistributable 2010 for 32bit
* Visual C++ Redistributable 2013 for 64bit
* Visual C++ Redistributable 2013 for 32bit
* Visual C++ Redistributable 2015-2019 for 32bit
* Visual C++ Redistributable 2015-2022 for 64bit


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