I made this thread in the hopes that it will head off legions of “zomg !!1! will my comp run SF4 ?!?!?!? HALP !” type posts we’ve been so inundated with recently. Though I already know deep in my heart that most people who love superfluous punctuation also detest searching before posting, I felt I should at least try. Why not right?
Anyway, here are the PC specs for SF4 (as posted numerous other places on the board).
For the most part, the RAM and CPU stuff should be easy to figure out. If you are completely new to computers, you can find out what type of CPU and how much RAM your computer has as follows:
Start > Control Panel > System
You’ll see something like this:
Processor: Intel ® Core™2 Duo CPU T8100 @ 2.1 GHz
Memory (RAM): 3.00 GB
Thus, this system in question meets the recommended CPU and RAM requirements for SF4.
The Video card is a bit more complicated.
On Vista, you can simply right click on your desktop and select “personalize.” If you’re using a flat screen, you might see something like:
1: Generic PNP monitor on ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
If you don’t see your video card type there, click the “advanced settings” tab. Your card will be listed as the “adapter type.”
If you’re on XP, just do: Start > Control Panel > Display. Look around in the tabs there. I don’t have access to an XP machine right this second, but that’s about the jist of it.
Now that you know what card you’re running, here is how to compare it to the minimum/recommended system specs:
You’ll note this page has a nice, easy to read column of various video cards listed in order of (rough) performance. You’ll note that the minimum cards are in the mid class 3 category, while the recommended are high class 2.
To find out more information about your specific card, you can click on the link of the card for more information and a review. Note: this often also contains information like whether your card meets the “DirectX 9.0c/Shader3.0” requirements. Here is the review of the video card that the example computer is using:
So, a basic run down based on the information that we’ve been able to acquire on this computer is as follows.
- It exceeds the recommended specs on CPU and RAM
- It has a middle of the road video card in comparison to the needs of SF4
Based on this, one could infer that it should run SF4 pretty decently, though some of the graphical bells and whistles might need to be toned down a little.
Though this is not an exact science as we don’t yet have the PC version of SF in our hot little hands, we can at least ballpark what kind of performance a system should be able to produce.
Hopefully the less computer savvy people on the board will find this guide helpful. I’ll see you online in about a month!
