# Prerequisites

For Chromatics 3 to work, you must have the following prerequisites installed on your system:

[.NET 8 Desktop Runtime](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-8.0.6-windows-x64-installer)

[Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2022](https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe)

### System Requirements

* Windows 10 or higher running 64-bit version