(03-03-2012, 11:41 AM)scummos Wrote: Actually I'm not quite sure about that, once the libs are loaded into memory it shouldn't cause much of a performance hit.
You'll have to forgive me, I'm not used to having so much RAM available now. I'm still thinking in terms of my old desktop, which had less than 1GB of RAM.
Still the process of getting Dolphin on a Live CD/DVD seems to me like it would be more trouble than it's worth. You'd have to find out if the distro comes with all of the necessary libs (pretty sure most don't), and then somehow incorporate any missing ones into the Live CD/DVD's environment. I don't know exactly how you'd do that though; I've never tried to install packages or software while using the Live CD/DVD as an OS.
Assuming they aren't already loaded, I don't know how well Live CD/DVDs handle loading of proprietary drivers for GPUs either, though in a case like pwnedatdolphin's it's usually not relevant for Intel's IGP. Building Dolphin would require some kind of storage (HDD or even USB stick), to save the files, but you'd need that anyway to load any ISOs. Just making sure all the right libs are there (every time the compuer boots, no less) would prove to be the biggest headache. So I guess I'll amend my statement.
I hope you're not considering playing Dolphin from that Live DVD. :p It'd just be one big PITA.