To get ML-Agents working with Windows, you will need to have Windows 10 installed. While it is possible for ML-Agents to work on other versions of Windows, we have only tested with a local installation of Windows 10 (not using VM like Bootcamp or Parallels)
## Step 1: Install Nvidia CUDA toolkit
<ahref="https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-archive"target="_blank">Download</a> and install the CUDA toolkit from Nvidia's archive. You can select the latest or previous releases. In this guide, we are using version 9.1.85.3 ([direct link](https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/9.1/Prod/patches/3/cuda_9.1.85.3_windows)).
<ahref="https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-archive"target="_blank">Download</a> and install the CUDA toolkit from Nvidia's archive. The toolkit includes GPU-accelerated libraries, debugging and optimization tools, a C/C++ compiler and a runtime library and is needed to run ML-Agents. You can select the latest or previous releases. In this guide, we are using version 9.1.85.3 ([direct link](https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/9.1/Prod/patches/3/cuda_9.1.85.3_windows)).
## Step 2: Install Nvidia cuDNN library
<ahref="https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn"target="_blank">Download</a> and install the cuDNN library from Nvidia. cuDNN is is a GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep neural networks. Before you can download, you will need to sign up for free to the Nvidia Developer Program.
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Once you've signed up, go back to the cuDNN <ahref="https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn"target="_blank">downloads page</a>. You may or may not be asked to fill out a short survey. When you get to the list cuDNN releases, __make sure you are downloading the right version for the CUDA toolkit you installed in Step 1.__ In this guide, we are using version 7.1.1 for CUDA toolkit version 9.1+ ([direct link](https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/machine-learning/cudnn/secure/v7.1.1/prod/9.1_20180214/cudnn-9.1-windows10-x64-v7.1)).