Hey Guys!
A little background: over on my Windows Computer I have Dolphin 4 and a quad core Intel and middle of the road nVidia card and Super Mario Galaxy runs perfectly with default settings. I'm saying perfectly if most of the time it's between 85-100% speed. I know sometimes there's a lot of stuff on the screen and so performance dips a bit.
On my Linux computer I have Dolphin 3.5 from the RPM Fusion Fedora Repository. I've compiled stuff before, but I tend to have a pretty piss-poor success rate at it so I just stick with whatever's in the repos. So I know that 4.0 supposedly has a bunch of speed optimizations (although I don't know if those are OS specific or not), but I'm stuck with 3.5 on Linux. Have been in and out of emulation for the past 20 years, I've had a lot of experience twiddling settings to try and get games to play, but that experience has also taught me that it can be time-consuming and a bit of a waste of time.
So what I was hoping for was a list of the settings I could tweak to make it most likely that Super Mario Galaxy (and games as demanding or less) would play well on the Linux machine. Or to put it another way, rather than play with the 3 dozen or so setting in Dolphin, I was hoping to get an idea of which settings would have the most bang for buck.
I'm perfectly fine playing at native resolution. (If I want 720p or 1080, I'll boot up my Windows computer) I'm using Fedora 19 with the nVidia proprietary drivers. I have a dual core Intel in there, but I can't remember the exact specs at the moment. Most of my Gamecube games (except the most demanding ones like Smash Bros) seem to run well enough - 75-85%.
To try and head off any "why don't you just play it on Windows" replies - my Linux computer is my main computer so it's always on. My Windows computer is for PC gaming and photo editing so I don't always have it on. So I was trying to be able to just kick back and play some Dolphin-supported games without having to boot up another computer - with its associated waste of electricity and so forth. Also, this way I get the bonus of being able to listen to music and Dolphin audio together rather than one or the other.
Thanks for any help.
A little background: over on my Windows Computer I have Dolphin 4 and a quad core Intel and middle of the road nVidia card and Super Mario Galaxy runs perfectly with default settings. I'm saying perfectly if most of the time it's between 85-100% speed. I know sometimes there's a lot of stuff on the screen and so performance dips a bit.
On my Linux computer I have Dolphin 3.5 from the RPM Fusion Fedora Repository. I've compiled stuff before, but I tend to have a pretty piss-poor success rate at it so I just stick with whatever's in the repos. So I know that 4.0 supposedly has a bunch of speed optimizations (although I don't know if those are OS specific or not), but I'm stuck with 3.5 on Linux. Have been in and out of emulation for the past 20 years, I've had a lot of experience twiddling settings to try and get games to play, but that experience has also taught me that it can be time-consuming and a bit of a waste of time.
So what I was hoping for was a list of the settings I could tweak to make it most likely that Super Mario Galaxy (and games as demanding or less) would play well on the Linux machine. Or to put it another way, rather than play with the 3 dozen or so setting in Dolphin, I was hoping to get an idea of which settings would have the most bang for buck.
I'm perfectly fine playing at native resolution. (If I want 720p or 1080, I'll boot up my Windows computer) I'm using Fedora 19 with the nVidia proprietary drivers. I have a dual core Intel in there, but I can't remember the exact specs at the moment. Most of my Gamecube games (except the most demanding ones like Smash Bros) seem to run well enough - 75-85%.
To try and head off any "why don't you just play it on Windows" replies - my Linux computer is my main computer so it's always on. My Windows computer is for PC gaming and photo editing so I don't always have it on. So I was trying to be able to just kick back and play some Dolphin-supported games without having to boot up another computer - with its associated waste of electricity and so forth. Also, this way I get the bonus of being able to listen to music and Dolphin audio together rather than one or the other.
Thanks for any help.