The following are the System Requirements for running DarkBASIC Professional. You can view the Minimum or the Recommend specifications.

Minimum System Requirements
	300 MHz Pentium II Processor
	Windows 98** / 2000 / ME / XP / Vista / Win 7
	400 MB of hard disk space
	64 MB of Ram
	DirectX Version 9.0c or higher
	Fully DirectX compatible Graphics Card with 16 MB Memory or more and Hardware 3D Acceleration
	Direct X compatible Sound Card
	4x Speed CD-Rom Drive
	We recommend your video card has at least 32 MB of memory to get the most from DarkBASIC Professional, you will be limited in the size of game and type of effects you can use otherwise. Certain features of DarkBASIC Professional (such as vertex/pixel shaders) require a suitably powerful graphics card. Please check with your video card manufacturer before purchasing.

Recommended System Requirements
	733 MHz Pentium III Processor or above
	Windows 98** / 2000 / ME / XP / Vista / Win 7
	400 MB of hard disk space
	128 MB of Ram
	DirectX Version 9.0c or higher
	Fully DirectX compatible Graphics Card with 64 MB Memory or more and Hardware 3D Acceleration
	Direct X compatible Sound Card
	16x Speed CD-Rom Drive
	Please note that certain features of DarkBASIC Professional (such as vertex/pixel shaders) require a suitably powerful graphics card. Please check with your video card manufacturer before purchasing.

** Windows 98 support was discontinued from Upgrade 6.7 onwards. To use this operating system, the latest update you can install is Upgrade 6.6.

We are sorry but DarkBASIC Professional was developed exclusively for Microsoft Windows based PCs and will not run on any variety of Apple hardware or on Linux even under PC emulation.

Your DarkBASIC Professional programs will not work on any of the above consoles and they cannot be converted to do so.