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[TechnoGatsby]

Just curious because I can't seem to get a straight answer at all and I'm not digging up research that makes me feel good about the intel - what are the PC system requirements to run OpenBor/MUGEN games? I'm sure there's a GPU threshold that needs to be met, I'm wondering what that is. Cheers!

 

[machok]

few years ago I have experience using low spec PC with Celeron Dual-Core only with IGPU, 8GB of ddr3 RAM (OS windows 7)
all the openbor games I tried run smoothly, the problem is longer loading time and if we want to record videos with this spec, we need a trick
*sorry I have no experience with mugen

 

[NED]

few years ago I have experience using low spec PC with Celeron Dual-Core only with IGPU, 8GB of ddr3 RAM (OS windows 7)
all the openbor games I tried run smoothly, the problem is longer loading time and if we want to record videos with this spec, we need a trick
*sorry I have no experience with mugen

Yes, basically that!
I remember trying to load mugen games in a Window 95 computer and had no problems.
Mugen is very optimized I think.
(But lately, some mugen characters can be very heavy and can cause slowdown. Even with a good computer you can experience slowdowns with such badly optimized characters)


Same for openbor, with computer around 2000. Never had any problem.
The only problem I had were slowdown during loading sometime a freeze because I had very low available space in my computer and perhaps it needed to use it for the ram.
(I'm not a specialist)

My suggestion would be.
Just try it. There is a lot of chances it works perfectly.

 

[DCurrent]

Just curious because I can't seem to get a straight answer at all and I'm not digging up research that makes me feel good about the intel - what are the PC system requirements to run OpenBor/MUGEN games? I'm sure there's a GPU threshold that needs to be met, I'm wondering what that is. Cheers!

Welcome to the community @TechnoGatsby.

As to your question, there's a reason you couldn't find a straight anserr: There isn't one.

OpenBOR and Mugen are both engines, not games. As such, they are driven by creator content. It's entirely up to them how ambitious to get.

In the case of OpenBOR, it's almost a pointless question. The engine is tuned to be extremely efficient at what it does. You couldn't buy a PC made in the last 15 years that won't run every game ever made with it. Many games play perfectly on a 200Mhz CPU with 16MB of RAM (Dreamcast Specs). The largest to date needs about 250MB of RAM. Lower specs give you longer load times and may not let you do things like capture video, but that's up to the capture software.

Mugen is very similar though I won't give numbers since that's not my area of expertise.

HTH,
Dc

 

[O Ilusionista]

About Mugen, Elecbyte informed this back in 2013:

System requirements
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Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or newer required.

CPU: Intel Core Duo or equivalent recommended for HD resolutions.

Memory: 512 MB or more (actual requirements may vary based on
character and stage complexities).

But this is very outdated, as it was the very minimum. And it will depend of which type of content you wanna do, because stuff with OpenGL (to suport 24bits images) will require a more recent graphic card.

Some games will require WAY MORE than 512mb to run. Mugen is a 32bit app, so under windows, it won't use more than 4gb of ram (in fact, 3gb, unless your system is capable of allowing more than than, like some XP versions could - I think windows 7 too). There are some games which uses a "custom" (IOW, hacked) version to allow more than 4gb

 

[TechnoGatsby]

Appreciate all of the feedback. I'm currently trying to do a Launchbox build with my Sega New Astro City. Getting a PC to run and come through on the native 15hz monitor requires a few things, not the least of which is a very specific series of lower powered GPUs. I'm currently looking at an AMD Radeon HD 6450 512MB DDR3 PCI-E x16 Low Pro card because it's near the maximum of what has been proven to be allowed given my limitations and current setup. There is a threshold at which the CRT Emudriver doesn't work with GPUs of newer quality so I'm sort of locked into a specific type of card. Wondering if that Radeon is enough in a nice Dell Optiplex build to get the job done for Mugen and Openbor or if the hardware is a little too dated given the newer content being produced as of late. Again, thank you for all the feedback thus far.

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[DCurrent]

Appreciate all of the feedback. I'm currently trying to do a Launchbox build with my Sega New Astro City. Getting a PC to run and come through on the native 15hz monitor requires a few things, not the least of which is a very specific series of lower powered GPUs. I'm currently looking at an AMD Radeon HD 6450 512MB DDR3 PCI-E x16 Low Pro card because it's near the maximum of what has been proven to be allowed given my limitations and current setup. There is a threshold at which the CRT Emudriver doesn't work with GPUs of newer quality so I'm sort of locked into a specific type of card. Wondering if that Radeon is enough in a nice Dell Optiplex build to get the job done for Mugen and Openbor or if the hardware is a little too dated given the newer content being produced as of late. Again, thank you for all the feedback thus far.

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I'm oversimplifying, but OpenBOR does its work in software. The graphics hardware is basically a pass-through device. For OpenBOR, the only things that really matter are CPU, RAM, and architecture.

• Are you using an official OpenBOR build on a compatible OS?
• Is your CPU a consumer grade unit less than 10 years old?
• Do you have 512MB of free RAM?

If you said yes to all of those, you can run every OpenBOR game in existence with padding to spare. In case it does matter, OpenBOR uses SDL, or optionally OpenGL.

DC