Can i run games in my old PC?????

01-08-2020, 09:15 PM #1

Hi. Can i run heavy games locked in 30 fps 480p?
My specs:
Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 Motherboard
5GB of DDR2 Dual channel ram
NVidia GT 730 GDDR5 2GB ram
Core 2 Duo 3.1GHZ Overclocked e8400

Rayxzz · (This post was last modified: 01-08-2020, 10:20 PM by Rayxzz.)

GPU should be able to reach 480p in most situations but I'm not sure about the CPU, might be too slow but you can try. RAM is also kinda slow so don't try to run texture packs.

01-09-2020, 12:26 AM #3

I tried not-so-heavy games, Like Supreme mario bros (just kidding) run without issues in 720p 60fps. So second question is raising, Dolphin 5.0 is very unstable so 4.0 vs 5.0?

Rayxzz · 01-09-2020, 12:41 AM #4

If you use the latest development build of 5.0, it will definately be more stable than 4.0. 4.0 is missing a lot of features in comparison and will give you slower framerates on some titles.

**mstreurman** · 01-09-2020, 03:05 AM #5

(01-09-2020, 12:41 AM)Rayxzz Wrote: If you use the latest development build of 5.0, it will definately be more stable than 4.0. 4.0 is missing a lot of features in comparison and will give you slower framerates on some titles.

Not just that, 5.0 dev versions are actually more stable than the stable versions. 5GB is also a strange amount of ram... You might want to check if you're running 2x2GB+1GB or 2x2GB+2x512MB, otherwise you will be missing out on Dual-Channel which will give your computer a considerable boost in all gaming performance. If you are running 2x2GB+1GB consider removing the 1GB stick, only leave that stick in there if you are sure you are running into a RAM bottleneck (e.g. what you are doing is taking up >4GB of RAM)
On the other hand: you might want to try running a (light-weight) Linux distribution with the latest dev-version of Dolphin instead of trying to run it on Windows.