TouchDesigner on Intel Mac running Windows in Bootcamp

Hardware
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I have an older Intel mac that I use exclusively as my windows machine running Windows 10 in Bootcamp. I just installed the newest available TD (2023.12370) for Windows, but I’m seeing popups for missing DLLs on boot and TD won’t start.

The first missing DLL shown in vulkan-1.dll, so clearly this is a graphics card related issue. Device Manager shows my graphics card as “Intel Iris 5100”. The System Requirements explicitly says that Intel 5000/6000 series cards are NOT supported.

It seems like I have quite an obvious answer here, but I wanted to double check if there was a possibility that I could maybe run an older version of TD on this machine, or if there are any workarounds that I can’t find.

Note: My main machine is a Macbook Pro M1 - this runs TD just fine. My goal is compatibility testing for my project and connected hardware, and this is the best/only access to a Windows machine that I have. Please don’t just answer and say “TD supports mac just use that”.

Thanks!

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Hi @secondstring,

you can download older builds from the archive (try 2021.10000 maybe) but unsure how useful compatibility testing will be if you are using different versions of TouchDesigner.

cheers
Markus

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Yep fair point, it’s mostly driver compatibility which I think probably stayed the same throughout quite a few versions. Either way, it would be good to test my device with older hardware + drivers anyway.

Thanks for the build # suggestion, I’ll give it a go.