First post, by DerZocker
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Hello there, Vogons! I really hope you guys can help me out with this.
I want to get a secondary rig to accompany my Laptop, though my requirements for it make things a bit complicated.
What I want is a machine that is more or less still reasonable fast, able to output to a CRT in 240p, but also runs the 32Bit version of Win7,
as there's a huge bunch of ancient graphic and 3D utilities that just refuse to work on a modern 64bit system.(and none had any problems on my old Acer which had 7 32bit)
I mainly want to use the 240p out to hook up the PC to my PVM, so I can use it as an accurate preview monitor for my pixelart. Playing old games and emulators on it would be just the cherry on top(especially Sonic Mania :3 ). So the problem now is that CRT Emudriver supports almost any OS variation except for Win7 32. XP is becoming a bit too old for some of the newer utilities I use, while 10 doesn't offer the same comfort. Would ArcadeVGA be my only option in this case or would it have its own share of issues?
Also, which CPU would be a good choice? My last tower was over 10 years ago and had still AGP, and I only had laptops since then, so my knowledge about hardware components is more than just a bit rusty.
I kinda want this as a bridge system that has at least some perfomance for the newer utilities like Photoshop, but also the aforementioned backward compability to let the new and old tools work hand in hand.
I know these are probably pretty special requirements I have here, but I suppose this is the best forum for questions about special hardware-OS combinations^^
I'm thankful for any help and recommendation you have
