Thanks for the kind words on the build guys!

BossGP, glad your happy with the art set still - Your machine looks great!

I steer clear of Future Pinball, mainly due to its erratic framerates. If i had a beefy PC, it may be ok - but even on my desktop PC, some tables get a little laggy, which instantly reminds you that your not playing a REAL machine...

Visual Pinball on the other hand, is great - as from the beginning its primary goal was to achieve a consistently high framerate on the ball travel. This makes playing the tables a much more realistic experience for the user.

The PC i have in the cabinet isnt anything overly powerful. It had a low level Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of generic RAM, 80GB Hdd, onboard sound, and a 1GB 9400gt Nvidia card (with dual outputs for obvious reasons).

***************************IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING BUILDING ONE OF THESE USE A NVIDIA CARD WITH 1GB DDR RAM AS A MINIMUM****

Visual Pinball 9 ONLY enables hardware rendering on Nvidia cards for some reason. If using Ati, blurring and corrupt textures appear and behave strangely. 1GB of RAM is required for textures, as some of the more demanding tables such as TZ, CFTBL have a lot of animating images...

Hope this helps some guys out, and when i finish my Funhouse restore, ill have some local guys round to check out both machines...

timbo