Minimal Hardware and Software Requirements for WPF

Software Requirements

To run WPF on your machine you need to have at least the following software installed:

• Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher
• .NET Framework 3.0 or higher

Hardware requirements

There are no minimum hardware requirements for WPF. All the requirements comes from the complexity and effects used in your application.

You can take advantage of hardware acceleration when your graphics processor supports DirectX 9 or higher. I would recommend to look for a graphicadapter for which the vendor supports a WDDM driver.

Please note that some effects cannot be done in hardware rendering under Windows XP. For exmaple Windows with AllowsTransparency set to True and the use of BitmapEffects.

How to specify minimal hardware requirements

A simple way to specify minimal hardware requirements to ensure that your client has a good experience is the Premium Ready label from Microsoft. It ensures that the machine has at least the following equipment:

• > 800MHz Prozessor
• 512 MBytes RAM
• A DirectX 9 capable graphics adapter

 Comments on this article

baba	Commented on 28.April 2010 itz fabricated
Tom	Commented on 8.July 2010 you can't do anything with 800 MHz, 512 RAM.... Thats no way
humanblade	Commented on 11.July 2010 @Tom actually you'd be surprised what you can do. in fact you'd be surprised what your grandmother could do. people who aren't playing games and compiling 100K+ codebases tend to do fine with systems like these. then again, i've known people to upgrade b/c they needed more memory in order for flash plugins not to bog down, allowing them to play farmville and have 3 youtube pages open... :)
bindu	Commented on 5.August 2010 i think christian has mentioned such low requirements only for beginners who wsih to learn the technology basics but not for real time implementations
golden	Commented on 11.August 2010 nice
CHRISTIAN	Commented on 23.August 2010 I apprieciate your feedback but I cant explain it anymore in depth because I just copy and pasted this from another website