I limited the questioning to this:
1. OpenGL will be slower, but is the load on the GPU only?
2. All glitches affecting OpenGL in Windows and Mac OS X are also present in Linux, correct?
Original post:
1. OpenGL will be slower, but is the load on the GPU only?
2. All glitches affecting OpenGL in Windows and Mac OS X are also present in Linux, correct?
Original post:
Quote:I'm currently running Dolphin in a 30-day trial of Windows 7 x64 and it works beautifully on my new PC. The problem is... it's a trial. It's gonna end eventually, and Windows is not cheap. I'm trying to decide whether I should extend my trial (there is a legal way to do this that Windows provides for free) so that I can buy Windows 8 later or switch to Linux (Xubuntu 64 bit). Linux only has one backend though (OpenGL), which is slower than Direct3D9/11 and sometimes has bugs that aren't found in D3D9/11. I want to know if I can possibly get full speed in all of the following games (pc specs in sig) with at least 2x IR on Linux:
Compatibility is a concern -- Speed is a concern
1. Animal Crossing & Animal Crossing: City Folk
2. DKCR
3. DK Jungle Beat
4. DKonga 1/2
5. GH World Tour && GH III
6. All of the GC & Wii Zelda Games
7. Luigi's Mansion
8. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
9. Mario Kart (DD && Wii)
10. Mario Party 5/6/7/8
11. Mario Power Tennis { This one will always suck graphically }
12. Mario Strikers (GC && Wii)
13. Mario Superstar Baseball && Mario Super Sluggers
14. Marvel Ultimate Alliance
15. New Super Mario Bros. Wii
16. Paper Mario (TTYD && Super)
17. Pikmin 1/2 (GC)
18. Pokemon Colosseum && XD
19. SSBB
20. Sonic Heroes && SA2B && Secret Rings
21. Soul Calibur 2
22. Starfox Adventures
23. SMG 1/2 && Super Mario Sunshine
24. Wii Sports
And yeah, sorry the list is ridiculously long. I tried to shorten it (both by excluding games that I don't care that much about and by combining certain series).
The other issue is compatibility, so in italics above are the games where I believe that to be a concern (I would like it to be as good as DirectX). Bold games are ones where speed is my main concern.
My main Dolphin revision is usually 3.0, but for some games (like Skyward Sword) the most recent one can be better.
EDIT: I don't expect you to check out all of these games, mostly just the italic/bold ones. The other ones are only up there for good measure in case someone skims through and sees something.
Desktop:
OS: Windows 7 64 bit
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K @ 4.4 GHz
GPU: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Factory OC'ed)
RAM: 16 GB @ 1600 MHz
Dolphin Revision:3.0, 3.0-784, 3.5, latest 3.5
OS: Windows 7 64 bit
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K @ 4.4 GHz
GPU: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Factory OC'ed)
RAM: 16 GB @ 1600 MHz
Dolphin Revision:3.0, 3.0-784, 3.5, latest 3.5