Checking your hardware (windows)

First, we must open the Windows panel. We do this by pressing Windows + R and then entering Control Panel at the prompt, as demonstrated in the following screenshot:

The Windows Control Panel will pop up. Now click on System and Security, and then choose System on the following screen. This will immediately tell us the amount of RAM that we have and whether we have a 64-bit processor:

To check our GPU, click on Device Manager in the upper left-hand corner of this window. The Windows Device Manager will then pop up; you can then select the Display adapters drop-down box to check which GPUs are on your system: