Dolphin PC buying guide

[chrissooo]

(02-17-2010, 12:58 AM)mew Wrote: ummm... OpenCL sounds great...

Please report your results with OpenCL chrissooo!

Thank You chrissooo & Roger525 for your help

Hi, i have new Results!
OpenCL i have read are to much beta now and dont bring some more speed. Thats mean, i dont try OpenCL. But i have play a little bit with the settings in Dolphin and now i can play with my I5 650 without OC Wii Sports in FULL SPEED!! Thats mean nearly all time with 60FPS!!! Sometimes its slow down a little, after loading for example or in some menus, but in game its nearly always on 60FPS!

The Hit was to set in DX9 Plugin EFB Copy to Texture.

[DaddyLongLegs]

I would like to post an update...I have an AMD AM2+ 3.1ghz 6000 processor with 4gb of RAM. I had an ATI 4500 HD 512 MB. I could not get more than 30fps in Fire Emblem stage in Smash Bros. Brawl. I changed my video card to a GeForce 9 series with 1024MB of DDR3 RAM and now I get like 55fps! Sadly, I still get only 30 fps in Delfino Plaza, I think because of all the water effects. But GPU helps a lot!!

I was wondering, when playing Fire Emblem stage and the stage background changes, the game stutters for a few seconds (it kind of locks up) but once the stage transforms the stuttering stops. Is there any way to fix this stuttering?

[addison]

Generally when ever you want to buy PC at that time you have to check mother board from good company,
4 GB RAM
Wire less optical keyboard and Mouse
230 GB Hard disk
1 GB Graphics Card
DVD writer combo drive........................................

[chrissooo]

(02-25-2010, 06:57 PM)addison Wrote: Generally when ever you want to buy PC at that time you have to check mother board from good company,
4 GB RAM
Wire less optical keyboard and Mouse
230 GB Hard disk
1 GB Graphics Card
DVD writer combo drive........................................

LOL

-- irony start --
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Its very important to have optical keyboard and mouse for dolphin when you don't have a wiimote! The Wii OS in dolphin see that you use a cable mouse and keyboard emulated wii controller and don't start. The original wiimotes are also wireless, that's why! Best is to look for a mouse and keyboard that can communicate with the Wii sensor bar. The "DVD writer combo drive" is also very important to use it to store savegames on discs! The CPU is irrelevant ... the emulation progress works also with the "DVD writer combo drive" ... yes, "combo" means its can burn discs and process some emulators. Look for a fast as possible "DVD writer combo drive".
-- irony stop --

[RDilus]

(07-25-2009, 07:10 PM)Daco Wrote: i dont really call GeForce GTX 260 a meanstream but a high end
meanstream is something like the GF8 or GF9 series

also, wrong forums fuckface XD

GTX 260 is a 9800GTX+ so it is mainstream
bot are fast and good

[akskiller]

Would a core i5 750 fair well with dolphin?

I am asking because I am upgrading from an AMD machine to an Intel one. Also will all the parts I am ordering be compatible:

Motherboard: ASUS P7H55-M PRO 1156 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131623R

CPU: Intel Core i5-750 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215

RAM: G.SKILL 2GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231134

Thanks.

[akskiller]

Can anyone confirm its all compatible including my 8800GTS card?

[boogerlad]

a underclocked i5 750 nets me over 100fps ingame of wiisports and no other game dips below 55fps even in multiplayer!

[thelastdraco]

(02-28-2010, 04:32 PM)akskiller Wrote: Would a core i5 750 fair well with dolphin?

I am asking because I am upgrading from an AMD machine to an Intel one. Also will all the parts I am ordering be compatible:

Motherboard: ASUS P7H55-M PRO 1156 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131623R

CPU: Intel Core i5-750 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215

RAM: G.SKILL 2GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231134

Thanks.

shouldn't be a problem as far as your hardware goes, but the only problem that you might face will be from the i7 cpu. i have a core 2 quad and it works great with dolphin but the i7 has hyperthreading which could do one of two things; give u an awesome increase in processing or more realistically it would cause compatibility issues. so far i haven't heard about anyone having these issues who use new intel cpu's but some games might be affected. shouldn't be a big deal for too long though the dolphin dev's are on top of their game. also you probably want to get more ram, 2GB doesn't help much these days, although the ram you are planning to buy is pretty fast, i would still get at least 4GB.

[ExtremeYoshiFan]

Will this newegg combo deal fare well(after I install XP 64bit):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.328144

It is an AMD Duo core and a gigabyte board, may need more RAM though(currently 2 gb, I want to run Mario Sunshine, Melee, Brawl, Bleach, and a few others, I would like to get full speed most of the time or close to it while playing(I could care less about cutscenes/menus). Will the onboard card work well(in standard res, and how about 720p, it supports hybrid crossfire X[Radeon 4200 graphics chip onboard]) or will I need to buy something like this to add on to it(or a lesser card, and if so what card[a cheap model, I am not buying a $600 2gb GPU]):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102843&cm_re=crossfirex-_-14-102-843-_-Product

By the way, I don't overclock so that isn't a solution.