According to my dad, ATX cases are only necessary if your motherboard is designed for a Pentium2 class chip or above. AT case should fit perfectly. Now, in response to playing on cheap systems.....
I can beat ye all in crappy FF7 performance!
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Please note that my system has been severly upgraded since I first played, so, by all means, READ IT AND LAUGH!!
I first played it on a 233mhz Pentium1 MMX (I'm still using the same processor to this day), with 32megs of RAM, 540 meg hard drive, and (of course) DirectX 5.0; with a corrupted version of DirectMedia installed (but I didn't know it was corrupted until I ran DX diag for the first time).
Now here's the insult to all that injury . I was running it on a 2meg Trident PCI card, which had a nasty habit of SLOWING DOWN the Software rendering, which was my only option. 320X240 was ok, but you could tell you're missing out on something. The config reported the card only passed "8-bit paletted textures"
Sound was terrible. I used SB16 for sound, which meant (shudders with horror) FM synth only for hardware sound! SoftSynth messed up after a sound effect was played. Go thru a door, music studdered until I turned off the game. Also, no hardware Acceleration for sound either. Movies took forever to load.
So, I think I know how quickly a man's pride in his system will be gone when his system has no acceleration at all, and he trys to play a quick game of FF7.
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