Computer

Only fast computers with high-resolution displays are compatible with manual Whole Slide Imaging.

If you are not sure if your computer meets the minimum requirements, use these instructions to open "system information" on Windows and send a screenshot of this to Microvisioneer for a quick reliable check.

Find out which Windows version is running on a computer by following these instructions.

This software is x64 only and will only work on 64 bit operating systems.

Portable Computers:

- If you have to use a portable computer, make sure it is equipped with an Intel quad-core processor (e.g i7 8550U, i7 8750H or newer ) or AMD Ryzen 3000 series or newer and 8GB RAM.

Using Microvisioneer manualWSI on a Mac:

- Microvisioneer manualWSI is not compatible with Mac OS. It requires a Windows Operating System. 

- It is possible to install and run Windows Apps on Macs with Intel processors via a software called Parallels. It runs Windows in a virtual machine on Mac OS. By default, this will be slow for scanning because Parallels only assigns limited resources to that virtual machine. Change it to at least 4 processing cores and at least 4 Gigabytes of RAM.

- Additionally, you have to configure Parallels to make the camera available to the virtual Windows System.

- Another way is to install Windows directly on the Mac. Apple provides a tool called Bootcamp to simplify that process. With Bootcamp, every time you start your Mac, you can choose if you want to start Mac OS or Windows.

- Both above-mentioned ways are not supported for Macs with the new M1 and M2 processors.