Installation of INTERACT > INTERACT for Windows

INTERACT runs on any up-to-date full featured Windows multimedia computer. The system requirements largely depend on the quality, compression routine (codec), size and number of videos you plan to analyze simultaneously.

Note: The hardware specifications do not apply to the Life observation mode or for using the analysis routines on already collected data. Any Windows installation starting from XP is powerful enough to handle that.

INTERACT specific requirements

To install and run INTERACT on a Windows computer, the following items are required:

1.Your license Code (character string) or License key (dongle).

2.In case of a license Dongle, the computer requires a free USB port* to insert the hardware license key (generally called „dongle“)

3.Mangold Software Manager, to install the latest INTERACT version that fits the current license code or key.
To search for updates, an internet connection is required.

IMPORTANT: You need at least “local administration rights” to perform any of those installations, but NOT for running the program.

Minimum System Requirements

The resolution, size, number of frames per second and number of simultaneous videos plays a big role in the actual requirements.

For Example: The requirements sort of double for each additional HD video.
A single 4K video requires as much capacity as 4 simultaneous HD videos.
A video with 100 fps requires 4x the capacity of that of a regular 25 fps video.

Minimum Requirements for up to 2 Simultaneous HD videos

oOS - 64 bit, regular full featured, up-to-date Microsoft Windows 10 Pro, or Windows 11 Professional.

oSystem Core components: Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) or up

oCPU - Intel i7 (for HD video), i5 (for SD video)

oRAM - Minimal 16 Gb or more if you want to run more videos simultaneously.

oVideo card - Modern DirectX compatible Graphics Card.

Requirements Know-How

Playing and recording videos requires a combination of CPU, RAM and GPU resources.

Not only the number of simultaneous videos is important, also their size and quality matters:

A higher frame rate (or playing at increased playback speed) requires more resources than lower frame rates, same for high resolutions (one 4 K video requires almost as much resources as four HD videos, etc).

Roughly stated it is all about the total number of frames and pixels that need to be handled per second.

Having multiple Videos, usually requires multiple monitors to properly watch all videos simultaneously. This means that even though your Intel Graphics board can handle the workload, you may still need a proper CUDA compatible Nvidia graphics board that supports the required number of monitors.

Note: Using AI-Routines like auto-transcription and speaker identification increases the required GPU-power tremendously! Check the Requirements for these tools in the AI-based Auto-Transcriptions for details.

Hardware check

Computer performance always depends on a combination of cpu power, graphic card, available memory AND the decompression routine required by your video(s).

That is why fixed requirements are not more than an educated guess for best-praxis solutions.

To make sure your computer is able to handle the work load, try this:

•Right-click in the Task-bar.

•Choose Task Manager from the now available context menu.

•Switch to the Performance tab and leave the Taskmanager windows open

•Start INTERACT

•Open the required multimedia file(s) in INTERACT and hit Play.

If, by this simple action, your CPU Usage level rises above 80% or the Memory indicator rises up to the limits, your computer will not be able to handle the logging of behavioral Events for the selected number of multimedia files.

For each additional, simultaneous video the required capacity is almost doubled, that is why the requirements drift so far apart, depending on the number and size/quality of the video(s).

For Live-Observation and the analysis within INTERACT for already collected data no performance issues are expected.

1) Not required for license code users.

Requirements Windows-Edition

Requirements Windows-Edition