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If Emulation was completley optomised.
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If Emulation was completley optomised.
02-11-2011, 08:01 AM (This post was last modified: 02-11-2011, 08:03 AM by Infern0.)
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Say if we were 5 years down the line, and we had Dolphin version 3.0, and it was completley optomised and perfected.

what sort of specs do you think it would need to run?

I only ask because right now you seem to need a quad core and a high end GPU to get anywhere, yet the Gamecube itself only had a pathetic 400mhz cpu, and not a very good gfx processer either.

with most emulators after the 1.0 version, the hardware reqs seem to come down with every release.

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Oh i also meant to say, I can play games like Oblivion and Fallout 3 and GTA 4 etc on my pc (which are PS3 games) and yet i cant get Wind Waker going at a reasonable pace
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02-11-2011, 08:10 AM
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Impossible to say. All I can say is it will likely be much more demanding that it is now. Emulation requires a lot of stupidely inefficient things to be implemented for accuracy that no sane person would do with native software.
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02-11-2011, 06:54 PM (This post was last modified: 02-11-2011, 06:56 PM by Kodiack.)
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Quote:Oh i also meant to say, I can play games like Oblivion and Fallout 3 and GTA 4 etc on my pc (which are PS3 games) and yet i cant get Wind Waker going at a reasonable pace

Games ported natively to the PC are vastly different than true emulation. In those games your computer's processing the code directly; in an emulator, you're actually processing an entirely different CPU with its own unique instruction sets. You simply cannot take a console game and slap its image on a computer expecting it to run correctly. As NaturalViolence said, emulation is nasty work. In emulators, accuracy > performance. Accuracy is also extraordinarily demanding. I'm sure that we'll be seeing more optimizations here and there, but don't expect the hardware requirements to go down too much.
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