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Will It Run Here?

A program's requirements and a computer's specs: is it ready at the recommended level, ready at the minimum only, or not ready at all?

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About this interactive

The Software Compatibility and Requirements lesson gives you the checks to make before installing a program. System requirements usually come as two columns: the minimum, the least the program needs to run, and the recommended, what it needs to run well. Premiere Pro, in the lesson, asks for 8 GB of RAM at minimum and recommends 16 GB. Compare every spec on the card: RAM, CPU cores, free storage, and the video RAM on the graphics card. If everything is at or above the recommended level, you get the program at its best. If everything meets the minimum but something is below the recommended level, it runs, but not as well. Some checks are not about amounts. Is the program made for this operating system (Safari runs on Apple's systems, not Windows)? Is it a 64-bit program on a 32-bit operating system (About your PC shows the system type)? Does it work only with the graphics cards on its hardware compatibility list? Does it need other software installed first, like the Java runtime the Minecraft server needs, or a hardware token plugged in? Any of these, unmet, means it is not ready to run here yet. Drag each card into a bin, then check your answers.

What you'll learn

Aligned to

CompTIA Tech+
3.3 Explain the purpose and proper use of software.
3.1 Explain the purpose of operating systems.
CompTIA A+ Core 2
1.7 Given a scenario, apply application installation and configuration concepts.

Key terms

System Requirements
The minimum hardware and software specifications a device must meet for an application to install and run properly.
Software Compatibility
The ability of software to function correctly with specific hardware, operating systems, or other software on a given system.
Application Dependency
External software, such as a runtime environment or library, that must be installed for a target application to function correctly.

Topics

System Requirements Software Compatibility Software Installation Interactive Categorize

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