Starshatter is designed to run well on a wide range of Windows computer systems:

Minimum System	Recommended System
Windows 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP Pentium III 1GHz or Athlon Equivalent 512 MB System RAM DirectX 9 compatible 32 MB Direct3D card DirectX 9 compatible sound card 700 MB free disk space Keyboard and Mouse	Windows XP or Windows Vista Pentium 4 2.4GHz or Athlon Equivalent 1 GB System RAM DirectX 9 Direct3D w/ PixelShader 2.0 DirectX 9 compatible sound card 700 MB free disk space Keyboard and Mouse

Joysticks and gamepads with up to four analog axes and thirty-two buttons are supported as optional equipment, but are not required.

NaturalPoint TrackIR Head Tracker v3.1 supported.