Hello Dolphin community. GC was my first video game system and now that I found out about dolphin I'm excited to play some of my favorite old time classics as well as older awesome games I was too young to know about!
So from what I've read it seems that dolphin is very reliant on the CPU rather than the GPU. I've also noticed this first hand playing simpsons hit and run.
My current system is an early 2008 mac pro with 2 x 2.8 ghz quad core Xeon proccessors and I know that doesn't matter much as dolphin only uses 2 cores.
My current graphics is some lacking 512 MB AMD radeon HD 2800 xt or something.
8 gb of the good industrial style ram.
Anyways right now I'm getting on average 85% performance in simpsons hit and run with my 2.8 ghz processor and my bad graphics card on the default settings. The low being 60% and some choppy music and the high being 103%. (at standstill in the game I also get 100%)
My real question is that I am doing two major upgrades in the coming weeks...
First is I am getting a gtx 770 4gb graphics card from EVGA
and 2nd is that I am upgrading my 2 X 2.8 quad core xeon proccessors to 2 X 3.2 ghz quad core Xeons
? SO will these two upgrades allow me to run simpsons hit and run in dolphin full speed? Also will I be able to run the game at maxed out settings because my graphics card is pretty capable? Also would you say that simspson hit and run is a cpu intense game for dolphin because of the big open world? Thank you.
So from what I've read it seems that dolphin is very reliant on the CPU rather than the GPU. I've also noticed this first hand playing simpsons hit and run.
My current system is an early 2008 mac pro with 2 x 2.8 ghz quad core Xeon proccessors and I know that doesn't matter much as dolphin only uses 2 cores.
My current graphics is some lacking 512 MB AMD radeon HD 2800 xt or something.
8 gb of the good industrial style ram.
Anyways right now I'm getting on average 85% performance in simpsons hit and run with my 2.8 ghz processor and my bad graphics card on the default settings. The low being 60% and some choppy music and the high being 103%. (at standstill in the game I also get 100%)
My real question is that I am doing two major upgrades in the coming weeks...
First is I am getting a gtx 770 4gb graphics card from EVGA
and 2nd is that I am upgrading my 2 X 2.8 quad core xeon proccessors to 2 X 3.2 ghz quad core Xeons
? SO will these two upgrades allow me to run simpsons hit and run in dolphin full speed? Also will I be able to run the game at maxed out settings because my graphics card is pretty capable? Also would you say that simspson hit and run is a cpu intense game for dolphin because of the big open world? Thank you.