Dolphin on Lenovo Ideapad

[inknow]

The one-before-latest batch of Lenovo Ideapads finally came to my country, and before purchasing one, I wanted an opinion on how well will Dolphin generally perform on one.
The one I figured was the best match:
CPU: i7-5500U
GPU: R7 M360 2GB
RAM: 8GB DDR3L 1600 MHz

1. Will it run the following games sufficiently well? Metroid Prime, Eternal Darkness, Paper Mario TTYD, Super Mario Galaxy 2.

2. I needed a laptop that can fit in my backpack, and 14'' is the maximum size I can carry. It should total about $680. Does anyone know a better bang for my buck?

[Helios]

Nope to any of those games.

you have a ULV CPU and none of those games are terribly lightweight (I don't know about Eternal Darkness), and Metroid is VERY hard due to shader compilation.

[inknow]

Really? Even Paper Mario couldn't run on it? I figured it was very lightweight.

That's kind of disappointing, I don't know of any 14'' laptop that sports anything other than the ULV CPU. I'd love to get suggestions if anybody has any.

[Helios]

The graphical impressiveness of the game doesn't tell you how much it makes Dolphin work.

TTYD requires Bounding Box Emulation and that isn't nice on weak systems.

Example: Brawl isn't actually that hard on Dolphin.

[piccolo289]

ttyd works well on my macbook air base model. I had to use the stable version however

[inknow]

Well, I guess I can do without Bounding Box emulation and settle for less-than-optimal graphics. I hate using game-specific revs but if I can't get any better hardware, I guess I'll have to.

Thanks helios747 and piccolo289 for answering.

[JosJuice]

(10-11-2015, 04:36 AM)inknow Wrote: Well, I guess I can do without Bounding Box emulation and settle for less-than-optimal graphics.

That's not how it works. If you don't emulate bounding box, Paper Mario TTYD is going to be unplayable.

(10-11-2015, 04:36 AM)inknow Wrote: I hate using game-specific revs but if I can't get any better hardware, I guess I'll have to.

The only thing you should need to use a specific revision for is emulating bounding box (i.e. playing Paper Mario) with an older GPU. I'm very bad at keeping track of which hardware is capable of what, so I don't know if your GPU is affected.

[KHg8m3r]

I thought only Intel iGPUs had issues with Bounding Box? The laptop has has an AMD GPU, which can properly emulate bounding box.

[Nintonito]

He has GCN AMD hardware so bounding box would work correctly. 

[inknow]

Well, seeing as I have to get a notebook in a week for uni, and this laptop just scrapes the bare minimum for PCSX2, so it already answers one of my criteria. If I do end up buying it, I can report back to say if it can run Paper Mario TTYD.

Right now I worry more about not making a bad purchase.