What are uTorrent's system requirements?
Very low. It works on as weak a system as Windows 95 on a 486 with 14MiB of RAM (with the Winsock2 update), up to 2003 and Vista. It also works on 64-bit Windows.
It's reported to work under Linux using Cedega with some issues (blue bars in Pieces and Files tab don't work, update function fails, minimize has a slight bug) if you use "Win98" mode.
It works very well under Wine 0.9.16 (especially with µTorrent 1.6), but versions previous to 0.9.15 might have issues or not work at all. There are some minor bugs.
It will also work under FreeBSD 6.1 using Wine 0.9.16+, but requires the GLX module to be enabled in xorg.conf.
It will NOT work in Darwine 0.9.12 on OSX. It is reported to work, however, in CrossOver Office alpha 2 and 3, though you can't minimize for more than a few seconds without it freezing.
All 9x systems should have at least IE 4.0 installed: it upgrades a system DLL that provides functionality for various uTorrent functions. However, it is not necessary for uTorrent to run. Without it, only the toolbar, graphs in the pieces view, and double clicks in the list view no longer function.
Be warned that Windows 95/98 are limited to 100 max concurrent connections, unless you apply the following registry tweak (sourced from Windows TCP/IP Registry Entries):
1. Open the registry editor (Start -> Run -> regedit), go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP
2. You must create the following entry, it is not present by default.
MaxConnections
Data Type: String
Specifies the maximum number of concurrent connections. The default is 100. The maximum is 512.
It's reported to work under Linux using Cedega with some issues (blue bars in Pieces and Files tab don't work, update function fails, minimize has a slight bug) if you use "Win98" mode.
It works very well under Wine 0.9.16 (especially with µTorrent 1.6), but versions previous to 0.9.15 might have issues or not work at all. There are some minor bugs.
It will also work under FreeBSD 6.1 using Wine 0.9.16+, but requires the GLX module to be enabled in xorg.conf.
It will NOT work in Darwine 0.9.12 on OSX. It is reported to work, however, in CrossOver Office alpha 2 and 3, though you can't minimize for more than a few seconds without it freezing.
All 9x systems should have at least IE 4.0 installed: it upgrades a system DLL that provides functionality for various uTorrent functions. However, it is not necessary for uTorrent to run. Without it, only the toolbar, graphs in the pieces view, and double clicks in the list view no longer function.
Be warned that Windows 95/98 are limited to 100 max concurrent connections, unless you apply the following registry tweak (sourced from Windows TCP/IP Registry Entries):
1. Open the registry editor (Start -> Run -> regedit), go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP
2. You must create the following entry, it is not present by default.
MaxConnections
Data Type: String
Specifies the maximum number of concurrent connections. The default is 100. The maximum is 512.
- Can uTorrent automatically move files when the torrent finishes?
- How can I add other columns of info? Can I sort by more than one at the same time?
- How can I make uTorrent append a !ut extension to incomplete files?
- How can I make uTorrent auto-load torrents from a specified folder?
- How can I make uTorrent go into a seed-only mode on all torrents?
- How can I make uTorrent start in bosskey mode?
- How can I make uTorrent start minimized?
- How can I make uTorrent stop seeding at a specific share ratio?
- How can I quickly change the upload and download caps?
- How can I rename a torrent in the main listview?
- How can I rename a torrent's folder?
- How can I tell if a peer is an incoming or outgoing connection?
- How do I change the default remove action?
- How do I make uTorrent allocate all the files when I start the torrent?
- How do I make uTorrent delete files to the recycle bin?
- How do I make uTorrent prioritize the first and last piece?
- How do I modify the disk cache options?
- How is the share ratio shown for torrents that are started fully complete?
- Is it possible to make uTorrent load a torrent from the commandline?
- Is there a Linux or Mac version?
- Is µTorrent open source?
- What are uTorrent's system requirements?
- What do all those colors in the Pieces tab mean?
- What do all those flags in the Flags column mean?
- What do the colors in the Availability graph mean?
- What do the colors in the files tab mean?
- What does availability mean?
- What does Bandwidth Allocation do?
- What does Force Start (Downloading [F] / Seeding [F] ) do?
- What does Wasted and hashfails mean?
- What is %AppData%?
- What is that magnifying glass and box for?
- What is the Logger tab and what does it do?