System requirements to run program

PeterD58 wrote on 2/17/2025, 12:08 PM

Please describe your issue as detailed as possible.

Hi, I have used Photostory Deluxe for a number of years and currently have the 2024 version. l intend to change my windows 10 laptop for a new windows 11 laptop

Looking at the Magix website for the minimum system requirements, I understand hard drive space and RAM requirements, but the website indicates for windows systems a 64 bit version is required, the new windows laptop (Asus) I am looking at does not have an intel processor, its an ARM Snapdragon X Elite processor and not being sure if it was compatible, wondered if anyone else was running Photostory on this type of processor before I commit

I have also sent my question to customer support, but while I await a response thought it might be worthwhile asking on this forum

Thanks

Peter

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PeterD58 wrote on 2/18/2025, 4:15 AM

Support got back to me pretty quickly, these new processors are becoming quite popular so thought their response below maybe helpful to others:

“There is currently no native ARM version of Photostory Deluxe. (The same is true for almost all of our products.) So, naturally, at this point in time, our strong recommendation would probably still be to opt for a device with an x86 CPU”

They did add that having said this there are solutions available to run x86 applications on ARM Windows via emulation. Supposedly, this often works pretty well and provided some links, but think I’ll be changing my decision!

Peter