Capcom releases specs for Street Fighter IV on PC

by McKinley Noble
May 17, 2009 00:00 AM PST

If you want to throw Hadokens with your keyboard, Capcom has a list of the requirements that PC gamers will need for the upcoming port of their famous fighter.

Street Fighter IV was only missing one thing in its spring release: a PC compatible port for gamers without PS3s and Xbox 360s. Well, Capcom's finally got the ball rolling on the PC version of SFIV, with a full list of hardware specifications for running your Lightning Kicks and Sonic Booms at a crisp rate. Oh, and the PC version comes packed with a free Mad Catz SFIV Fight Pad, compatible with X360 via USB, just in case you want to shell out $60 for a sweet little bundle instead of a lonely digital download.

All things considered, that $60 gets a good deal, since SFIV generally runs a tab of $40 (even if it's used, in some places), while the SFIV Fight Pad can cost more than $90 freaking American dollars (due to their limited accessibility).

Capcom releases specs for Street Fighter IV on PC

Street Fighter IV, shown running at minimum PC specifications. Nah, not really. But it still don't look much prettier than this.

Peep the official hardware specifications below to see what Capcom's recommending.

Minimum

OS: Windows XP
CPU: Intel Pentium4 2.0GHz or higher
RAM: 1GB or higher
HDD: 10GB of free space or more
Video Card: DirectX 9.0c/Shader3.0 or higher compatible, NVIDIA GeForce6600 series, ATI Radeon(TM) X1600 or higher or higher, VRAM/256MB or higher
Sound: DirectSound compatible, DirectX 9.0c (or higher) compatible
Input Devices: Mouse, Keyboard

Maximum

OS: Windows Vista
CPU: Intel Core2Duo 2.0GHz or higher
RAM: 2GB or higher
HDD: 10GB of free space or more
Video Card: DirectX 9.0c/Shader3.0 or higher compatible, NVIDIA GeForce8600 series or higher, ATI Radeon(TM) X 1900 or higher, VRAM: 512MB or higher
Sound: DirectSound compatible, DirectX 9.0c (or higher) compatible
Input Devices: Gamepad/Xbox360 Controller for Windows

Now that the PC version's on its way, I wonder if we'll start seeing hacks of the game -- those SFIV mods would be a tall order, given the new graphics engine and whatnot.