System requirements
this page was last updated for SSF Ver 0.10 beta R1Recommended configuration
| CPU | Intel Core i7 series
Intel Core 2 Duo series AMD Phenom II series AMD Phenom series |
| Memory | 512MB or above running in Dual Channel mode |
| etc. | BIOS file |
Absolute minimum config required for running SSF:
| OS | Windows2000/XP/Vista
Windows 7 (both 32 and 64bit versions) should also work. If you experience problems under Vista or 7, make sure your drivers are up to date. |
| CPU | A cpu which has a FPU
(Floating Point Unit),
supports the TSC
(Time Stamp Counter),
and supports MMX, SSE and SSE2 instruction sets. Practically, this means any Pentium 4 or Athlon 64, or above. Athlon XP does not have SSE2 instructions and will not run. |
| RAM | 256MB or above |
| Video card | A videocard compatible with DirectX9.0c, capable of drawing
textures at the size of 1024x512 and 1024x1024. This includes any modern videocard or onboard video device. |
| Sound | A soundcard compatible with DirectX9.0c, and is capable of
playing back Stereo PCM streams at 44100Hz sampling rate. Basically any soundcard or onboard audio device. |
| CD drive | A drive that interacts via MMC3 read commands.
Basically any modern CD/DVD drive. |
Please understand that the requirements are very high because it takes considerable
amount of processing power to accurately emulate the multi-cpu enviroment of the Saturn.
On top of that, software processing is used, because hardware acceleration is not suitable
for accurate emulation of the quadrangle setup used by the saturn video display processors.
However, this also means that you do not need a powerful video card to run SSF at full speed.
Any entry level card is sufficient, even from multiple generation old cards.
The framerate you get in SSF is entirely dependant on your cpu.