Quote:Well i know it will run as it works on my current rig. (Core 2 e6600) it was more a question along the lines of "Will a quad core give me a significant frame boost over my Dual core in this game?" As for testing it out myself that would be impossible unless i bought the new CPU which would be stupid if i didn't know if ti was worth it or not. ( i mentioned i wanted to upgrade in my post) just wondering if anyone here is using a similar configuration to run this and how well it ran. Got Win 7 x64 on my PC now sadly not as big a boost as i hoped from Vista x86.
I misunderstood. When reading your post I thought that you were saying you already had a q8400 and were thinking about upgrading, you didn't say you had an e6600 and wanted to upgrade to a q8400. You should have just asked if you would get a significant boost from a quad core, the answer to that question is a big no. You may get 5-10% increase from background tasks running on the extra cores if your lucky. But practically speaking, dolphin has no speedup with anything more than 2 cores. That may change soon though since the developers are working on giving audio it's own thread.
If you want better performance you need to OC your cpu and get a better video card, since you already have win 7 64 bit and 2GB of ram is plenty for dolphin as long as you don't have any background tasks running those are the only things left to do to improve performance. Unfortunately because twilight princess uses the efb so much it's very difficult to emulate it at fullspeed. What settings and what build are you using?
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-Mark Antony