All versions up to 4.26 can run on any 32-bit Windows operating system (versions up to 3.03 are 16-bit applications and cannot run in 64-bit versions of Windows). Since 2004, with the release of version 5, GoldWave has stopped supporting Windows versions such as 95, 98, and 98SE (although GoldWave will still run on Windows 98SE, albeit unsupported) and renders the software unusable on those systems. Also, the system requirements have increased slightly, since now a Pentium III of 700 MHz and DirectX 8 are now part of the minimum system requirements compared to the Pentium 2 of 300 MHz and DirectX 5 required by previous versions.