System Requirements

Legacy System Requirements (Windows Vista, 7, and 8)

To view the system requirements for Windows XP, click here.

Authorware Install for Windows Vista, 7, and 8 (PDF)

The following are the minimum required system specifications to run the multimedia:

• 1 GHz processor
• 512 MB RAM
• Windows XP or newer
• Sound card (or onboard sound)
• Video card (or onboard video) capable of 800×600 resolution with 24-bit color
• Either Internet Explorer 7 or newer (32-bit version required on 64-bit machines) in Desktop mode, or Firefox 3.6 or newer
• Flash Player 10.1.142*
• Flash Player 18 or lower* **
• Windows Media Player 10 or newer*
• Authorware Web Player*
• Broadband Internet access (DSL/Cable/T1) capable of 384 kbps

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* In order to view this courseware, you will need three pieces of software (plugins) installed on your computer. All are free and readily available on the internet. While viewing this page, if you don't already have the software installed, it should automatically install. But if for some reason they don't install, there are buttons provided at the bottom of the page that will link you to the appropriate websites.

** In Flash Player 19 or newer, Flash files no longer work in Authorware.

Windows Media Player 10 or newer

If you can see a movie to the right saying Windows Media Player successfully installed, then it is already installed, if not, you will need to click the button below:

Flash Player 10.1.142 - Flash Player 18¹

If you can see a message saying Flash successfully installed, then it is already installed; if not, you will need to click the button below:

Authorware Web Player 2004^{1 2}

If you can see a message saying Authorware Web Player successfully installed, then it is already installed, if not, you will need to click the button below:

¹In order to install the Flash and Authorware plugins, an admin password may be required to temporarily "elevate" the current user to an admin for each plugin to be installed. In old operating systems, this would require a logout of the first user, then the admin would log in, install the plug ins, then log out, and the first user would log back in. Note that you will have to do it this for each plugin – the "elevation" is only for a particular operation.

²In order to run any eLearning content, the domain of *.learnamatrol.com must be set to a TRUSTED SITE to ensure that Internet Explorer 7 or later is not running in "Protected Mode". These settings are modified on the Security tab of Internet Options.