Hello to all/newb
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Hello to all/newb
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11-12-2010, 01:11 AM
  firstly hello, and I had no idea about dolphin till now and awesome job. I'm buying a htpc for the living room asrock ion 330ht to emulate dolphin and movies. The specs are dual core 1.6ghz, 2gbram ddr2 and nvidia ion. Is this sufficient if not shall i invest on ram or a better graphic card. My kids will be mostly playing gc games. please pardon my lack of knowledge as I don't know and not too knowledgable regarding specs.Thank you 11-12-2010, 01:14 AM
im afraid that gc games will not even play with those specs
11-12-2010, 01:52 AM
dolphin emulator uses cpu as is main source of performance and not only ram / graphics card
11-12-2010, 05:54 AM
Hi again, ok so tried it anyway and played mario kart double dash. It runs about 35fps with my CPU at 40. Which is quite slow. Is there anything else I can do to improve peformance or a log that I can post to you to look at.
Zelda something sword ran quite well. 11-12-2010, 06:06 AM
is that the pc in the first post or another one ?
11-12-2010, 07:32 AM
According to tomshardware benchmarks a dual core 1.6GHz atom 330 is only slightly faster than a 2.4GHz pentium 4 which is nowhere near fast enough to run almost any game at decent speeds.
"Normally if given a choice between doing something and nothing, I’d choose to do nothing. But I would do something if it helps someone else do nothing. I’d work all night if it meant nothing got done."
-Ron Swanson "I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. " -Mark Antony 11-12-2010, 07:43 AM
yes it's the asrock ion 330, I've managed to overclock my CPU by googling by giving more memory I think and looks abit better. Picture is really good but It runs faster on default 640x480 with the bars on the side. Can you please tell me if a better graphic card would do or does it depend all now on CPU.
Thanks for your help 11-12-2010, 03:09 PM
Getting a better video card will help, especially with higher resolutions. But getting better cpu will help A LOT more.
"Normally if given a choice between doing something and nothing, I’d choose to do nothing. But I would do something if it helps someone else do nothing. I’d work all night if it meant nothing got done."
-Ron Swanson "I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. " -Mark Antony 11-13-2010, 01:58 AM
Bruv I understand what your saying about CPU but is there any way of me getting more out of the CPU I have. I ran mkdd again today at high res and my CPU was only 40% used and the game was runnig between 30-35 frames. Is there no way I can increase it to even 50 frames maybe or is it the graphic card slowing it down. I don't know what I'm talking about, I've never said graphic card before.
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