System Specification Requirements

Tourwriter is a Windows application and requires Windows 7 or higher operating system with the free Microsoft .NET 4 (or higher) installed.

Hardware requirements:

  • Memory: 4Gb of RAM and above will suffice. 8GB and above is recommended for optimal performance.
  • Storage: Tourwriter requires only 50-70Mb for installation. Images, report files, booking email templates and copies of sent emails linked to your Tourwriter app are stored by hosting the MSB network drive. The space to host MSB is not consumed off your device storage.
  • Speed: No minimum requirement. Any new PC with good speed will do. The higher the speed, the better the performance will be.

Tourwriter works fine on the latest version of Windows OS, Windows 11.

Installing Tourwriter on a Mac requires virtual machines like Parallels, which lets you run Windows inside your Mac. There are no major problems with it as long as the Mac is not too old. For instructions on using Tourwriter on a Mac, read Tourwriter for Mac users.

If you have a new Mac with an M1 chip, you’d need to use Tourwriter on Parallels 16.5.

Parallels versionHardware RequirementsSoftware RequirementsSupported OS
Parallels Desktop 10A Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core M or Xeon processor (Core Solo and Core Duo processors are no longer supported)
Minimum 2 GB of memory (4 GB of memory is recommended)		Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 or later
Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 or later
Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 or later
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 or later
64 bit Kernel (visit http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3770 to learn more)

Windows 8.1
Windows 8
Windows 7,
Windows Vista ,
Windows XP
Parallels Desktop 11A Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core M or Xeon processor
4 GB of memory (8 GB recommended)		macOS Sierra 10.12 or later (NOTE: Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac is the recommended version for use on macOS Sierra)
OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 or later
OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 or later
OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 or later		Windows 10
Windows 8.1
Windows 8
Windows 7 SP1, SP0
Windows Vista,
Windows XP
Parallels Desktop 12A Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core M or Xeon processor
4 GB of memory (8 GB recommended)		mac OS Sierra 10.12
OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 or later
OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 or later		Windows 10
Windows 8.1
Windows 8
Windows 7,
Windows Vista,
Windows XP
Parallels Desktop 13A Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Intel Core M or Xeon processor
4 GB of memory (8 GB recommended)		macOS High Sierra 12.13 (when available)
macOS Sierra 10.12.5 or later
OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 or later
OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 or later		Windows 10
Windows 8.1
Windows 8
Windows 7,
Windows Vista, Windows XP
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