I planned to use the laptop for 4 or more years. And I have a budget of 1000$ or so, so I want to care for the need 4 years later.
(03-02-2012, 12:50 AM)admin89 Wrote: Whatever....80ºC is way too hot for any CPU .Your CPU lifetime will be shortenedIt has been working at 80ºC for 5 years without any problem. In fact I have contacted with my hardware provider and they said it's Ok as long as under 120ºC.
(03-02-2012, 07:38 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:I mean ancient versions of dolphin. I started playing the Wind Waker at 2006. At that time there was no D3D11 and D3D9 didn't work. The following years have seen a great step made by D3D9. It's much faster. But now, the speed of OpenGL has caught up too. Maybe It's linux OpenGL vs Windows D3D9. The OpenGL under Windows is still slower.Quote:I do have windows. Ancient versions only support OpenGL, Older versions of dolphin run much faster on windows with D3D9, but newer versions appear no much difference, at least for games mentioned above. The nvidia driver for linux has made much progress.
How ancient are we talking? D3d9 is supported by windows 2000. So unless you're using windows 98 or earlier you should be able to use d3d9 as long as your hardware supports it.