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Title: Noob trying to build a PC for Fightcade 2.
Post by: The96Bulls on August 22, 2021, 07:14:41 pm
Hello, I'm new and I've been doing a ton of research on how to build a PC for CRT VGA monitors. My goal is to be able to run Street Fighter III 3rd Strike at it's native resolution of 384x224 on something like a NEC MultiSync FE700. So far what I've gathered is that AMD cards with VGA is what I should be looking for since they can run Emudriver for custom resolutions but looking at the compatibility list is a bit overwhelming. Another goal of mine is to be able to use 2 frame "Runahead" feature on FC2 which is supposed to be very CPU intensive. So what video card+cpu combo am I looking for in regards to my goals? I only want to be able to run this one game and nothing else, if that helps.

EDIT: Forgot to add that I've never built a PC before so a lot of this is going to be over my head but I'm determined to see this project through.

Apologies if this is in the wrong subforum and thank you.
Title: Re: Noob trying to build a PC for Fightcade 2.
Post by: Vocalitus on August 23, 2021, 05:47:03 am
Any off the shelf A10 or A8. 
Title: Re: Noob trying to build a PC for Fightcade 2.
Post by: The96Bulls on August 24, 2021, 01:36:03 am
Any off the shelf A10 or A8.

Would a A12 work? 1/2 Frame Runahead is super CPU intensive on Fightcade 2.
Title: Re: Noob trying to build a PC for Fightcade 2.
Post by: The96Bulls on August 27, 2021, 01:37:48 am
Well, not much traffic in here so I guess I'll resort to turning this into a build thread of sorts.  ;D  First order of business putting together a part's list for the PC. Since this is my first time building a PC I've found this website incredibly useful for picking parts out and dealing with compatibility issues. I've gone with the following below.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/P4FMz7

I also managed to score a nice condition PT813

 https://www.cnet.com/products/viewsonic-pt813-crt-monitor-21-series/

I'll document more as parts come in.  8)