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Dolphin on a Laptop
12-18-2010, 08:46 AM
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Hello all Smile ,

Here I created this new topic to put an order in the forum instead of always posting in my another topic.
Here I've found that I need a laptop and not a desktop PC so I ask your opinion on this laptop please know that I want the cheapest pc possible while being enough for dolphin, and I think this one is:
http://www.materiel.net/ordinateur-portable/dell-inspiron-15r-i5-noir-62373.html

It has:
i5 460M 2.53 GHz (2.8 GHz Turbo Boost)
4GB DDR3 1333Mhz Ram
ATI Mobility ™ Radeon ™ HD5650 1GB
500 GB HD 5400trs/min
Windows 7 ® Home Premium 64-bit

Based on this video I think this PC is fully capable of running at full speed dolphin most of the time even with SMG :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocqsv3OXD3k&feature=related

P.S: Please answer me as soon as possible because I don't have much time to buy this PC and its been over 2 months I search a pc so my patience starts to go away ... Sad
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12-18-2010, 08:56 AM
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GPU is a bit weak so you'll probably have to turn off AA and pixel lighting but other than that it should do fine.
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12-18-2010, 10:56 PM
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What about this ? : He has a more powerful processor :
http://www.microchoix.ma/fiche-121527-VPC_F12E1E_W_Intel_Core_i5_520M___2_4_GHz.html

And he isn't very expensive for me.
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12-18-2010, 11:36 PM
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He was talking about your GPU, not CPU (the graphics processor)

You'll still have to disable AA, but you should be fine. As long as you play the games with native resolution, you won't need AA that much.
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12-18-2010, 11:41 PM
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Ok thanks ^^ And What is native resolution ? 640x480 ?
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12-19-2010, 03:14 AM (This post was last modified: 12-19-2010, 03:15 AM by Nolonar.)
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It's the resolution for which your screen was built.

If you play Dolphin with your native resolution, you won't see much Aliasing. If not, you might want to activate AA, but this consumes a lot of GPU power...

If you play in windowed mode, you don't need to worry about native resolution, btw.
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12-19-2010, 05:27 AM (This post was last modified: 12-19-2010, 05:28 AM by NaturalViolence.)
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Be careful when you use the words "native resolution" nolonar. That means the resolution the game was supposed to run at on the native hardware, which is indeed 640 x 480. What you're talking about is screen resolution not native resolution.

As long as you turn off pixel lighting, pixel depth, and AA that gpu should be able to handle gc/wii games at 1366 x 768 with a fractional or 2x efb scale.
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12-19-2010, 05:56 AM
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Turbo Boost on a laptop is unreliable at best, FYI.

The GPU will be real slow with moderate+ AA or high resolution. No way around this on a laptop AFAIK.
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12-19-2010, 06:42 AM
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(12-19-2010, 05:56 AM)xenofears Wrote: Turbo Boost on a laptop is unreliable at best, FYI.

The GPU will be real slow with moderate+ AA or high resolution. No way around this on a laptop AFAIK.

I'll be at full speed if Idisable things you tell me?
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12-19-2010, 06:46 AM
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It's pretty complicated, but yes it's possible to achieve full speed in most games but without a lot of enhancement settings.
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