Downloading TD through emulator

Hardware
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Hey guys,

So not sure if this is even possible but I run TD on a M4 Macbook and really really wanna get into kinect reactive stuff, and given that doesn’t work on Mac I downloaded the Windows VMware fusion emulator. I am able to connect to Windows on my mac and download TouchDesigner, however, I can only get to TouchDesigner setup and get the error code shown in screenshot. Let me know if anyone has any tips or spec questions i guess. Thanks!

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Hi @Jconway121,

this is due to the installer not liking an arm build of windows.
You can extract the installer and try to run TouchDesigner from the extracted files without the need to install it first.
Have a look at the Commandline switches of the installer here:

cheers
Markus

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Now how would I go about adding the command lines? Sorry I am not really a coder, do i just open terminal and use extract command on the installer file?

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I ran this code but I still get the same x64 error code, any tips or places where you saw I made a mistake?

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Hi @Jconway121,

the correct syntax would be:

TouchDesigner.2023.12230.exe /Extract /DIR="c:\Users\...."

cheers
Markus

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Hi!

I’m using TouchDesigner on a Windows ARM device.

Currently, I can launch the software via x64 emulation, but the license dongle is only recognized as a USB input device.

Even after installing the Sentinel Runtime, the dongle is not detected, so I’m unable to use TouchDesigner independently on this machine.

Do you have any plans to support license dongles on Windows ARM in the future?

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Did not seem to work, could it be due to it being the Touch Designer Setup application?

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What are are you using? Mine is ARM 64x but I am not even able to open the application

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I’m using a Surface Pro.

  1. Install TouchDesigner on an x64 Windows machine (a virtual environment is also fine).

  2. Zip the folder C:\Program Files\Derivative\TouchDesigner 2023.xxxxx and transfer it to the ARM device.

  3. Extract it to a folder like C:\TouchDesigner on the ARM device.

  4. Launch bin\TouchDesigner.exe directly.

With this method, I was able to successfully launch TouchDesigner on the ARM device.

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Hi @Jconway121,

you have 2 syntax errors in your screenshot:

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The there needs to be a space between the TouchDesigner file name and the / for Extract. The slash also needs to be immidiatly followed by the Extract.
Secondly there needs to be a space between /Extract and the following /DIR directive.

cheers
Markus

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How well does it run?

I did this with my SP 11, it worked but it was too laggy to be useful – After putting only a few objects the interface slowed down too much to be workable. But maybe other versions work better?

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I’m not doing any heavy tasks, but it’s running fairly smoothly.
The only drawback is that I can’t use the dongle license.