Quote:Are we taking GPUs into account? I see you didn't mention them. Personally I would say just leave them out, as it hardly ever is a bottleneck in Dolphin.
Third sentence of my original post
Quote: the benchmarking will revolve around the cpu specifically since it is almost always the bottleneck in dolphin
Quote:I'm running Windows 7 x64 on the first one, W7 x86 on the other one, but I'm willing to install a different OS beside the primary one if necessary.
Unnessecary since 32 bit dolphin runs in a 64 bit OS.
Quote:As for which game to use for the benchmark: why not use several? Zelda TP Wii demands ridiculous muscle for Hyrule field, Metroid Prime is a bitch in some areas, F Zero GX isn't all fun and games on some more mainstream systems... let's just pick a few and choose a specific point in the game for the benchmark.
We won't use several because whatever game/games we choose everyone will have to have. The more games we use the less people can participate. And remember that we want to choose a game that is basically impossible to run at fullspeed at some point near the beginning. Metroid prime seems like the best candidate in my opinion but I still want to put it to a vote.
I want everyone who is participating to have at least 2GB of ram as having less than that seems to dramatically impact performance.
I now want everyone from here on out to post not only their cpu models for all the systems they can use but a list of games they can use as well. People who have already posted should post their games as well. After a week or so we should have enough people to get started so I will put up a poll with the 10 most popular games and we will all vote on one.
Be sure to check my original post every once and awhile since I will constantly be adding new details to it.
Once we have enough people I'll set up an irc channel just for this group in order to help better organize things.
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"I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. "
-Mark Antony