well fear... i can tell u one thing right now.. this game will NOT get any faster
.. it will get slower.. thats 4 sure :biggrin:
why ?? simple... new effects... new options... sounds.. music.. etc etc etc...
1 on 1 (no tag) games should give you the best performance (again, background/shadows off, and no music)... with a 4 player game... thats four times as much info to process...
then, there are different chars... SF and X-Men... someone like Ryu has 1/2 the frames of Logan or Sentinel... thus, X-Men require more cpu power
.. i've tested this game on a crappy p500 Dell notebook, witha' ATI Rage Pro card... and there was ZERO slowdown with ALL of the graphix/effects set to "on"...
any box above those specs should have no problems with the game... and while re-installing (or "cleaning") windows MAY help the problem a bit... the key to this game is still hardware...
but.. u'r right.. 9fps is VERY low