Computer

MINIMUM RECOMMENDATIONS

a quad core processor with a minimum of 3GHZ
a graphics card (GPU) with minimum of 2GB nvram (at least a GTX750ti or equivalent or higher)
8GB RAM
a solid state hard drive (SSD) with a minimum of 128GB memory
a 64 Bit OS System. Preferrably Windows 7 or Windows 10..

HD BUILD 1080P

Ryzen 3 1300x
8GB DDR4 RAM 3200 mhz
Samsung EVO Pro 850 with 250GB
Win10 64 Bit
GTX 1050TI 4GB Edition
depends on which Controller Board you are using a USB2.0 PCie expres card
ASrock Fatality B350 Mainboard AM4
500 Watt Power Supply

ULTRA 4K BUILD

Ryzen 5 1600 or GTX 1070
Win10 64 BIT
16GB Ram DDR4 3200 mhz
Sasmung Evo Pro 850 with 250GB
depends on which Controller Board you are using a USB2.0 PCie expres card
ASrock Fatality B350 Mainboard AM4
500 Watt Power Supply

HOW FAST OF A CPU DO I NEED?

As fast as possible! Of course with budget restraints, you may not be able to buy the best machine. Using Passmark's CPU benchmarks, it is good to shoot for at least a 1,500 score. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ Processors like the Core 2 Duo from Intel are a good choice. See the next question for a little more detail.

WHAT OS SHOULD I RUN?

Future Pinball and Visual Pinball will both run under either XP or Vista, and presumably will work fine under Windows 7. As far as performance under XP / Vista / 32/64 bit etc I don't know. If anyone has any comments regarding this question, please let me know.

WHAT KIND OF GRAPHICS CARD SHOULD I BUY?

You should stick with a high end graphics card that will render greater than 30 frames per second, which would be your absolute minimum. Nvidia seems to be the recommended card brand, with at least 512mb and at least the 9800 series. My initial test steup, a GeForce 6200 running on a Pentium D 2.8ghz with 4gigs of ram (a PC purchased in 2005) runs about 25fps in Future Pinball set at medium graphic levels, this is unacceptable, so you should shoot for much better with your configuration. The Ultrapin, made by Global VR, used a Intel 945 Motherboard with a Pentium D 3.0ghz processor, 1 gigabyte of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS, running on XP. By their own admission, this was not strong enough to run Future Pinball with acceptable framerates. For more information on the history of Ultrapin, read here.

HOW SHOULD I MOUNT THE COMPUTER?

Some people just use screws with spacers, others use the tray from a case.

POWER SUPPLY

Make sure that you purchase a power supply that is sufficient to run all the graphics cards in your system. Your card may need more than 400 watts, so go with at least a 600 watt supply.

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