Is my laptop good enough to play 2 specific games? (Gamecube)

[tudorm]

Hello,

I just recently installed Dolphin 4.0.2 on my HP G62 Notebook PC and I was really looking forward to being able to run these two specific games at a playable speed using the GameCube emulation: Kirby Air Ride and Super Smash Bros Melee.

Here are the computer specs:

Model: HP G62 Notebook PC
Processor: AMD Athlon ™ II P320 Dual-Core Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM: 3 GB (2.74 usable)
64-bit running Windows.

If my laptop is not powerful enough to run these games, any suggestions for cheap alternatives would be appreciated.

Thank you

[natnint4000]

even though those games are lightweight ones your laptop may stuggle i suggest using the latest development versions of dolphin https://dolphin-emu.org/download/. How much are looking to spend on a laptop? if it isnt very much i suggest getting a desktop, if you are ok with dual core a new overclockable system with a pentium g3258 processor would be a great choice for dolphin.

[tudorm]

(11-15-2014, 06:04 PM)natnint4000 Wrote: even though those games are lightweight ones your laptop may stuggle i suggest using the latest development versions of dolphin https://dolphin-emu.org/download/. How much are looking to spend on a laptop? if it isnt very much i suggest getting a desktop, if you are ok with dual core a new overclockable system with a pentium g3258 processor would be a great choice for dolphin.

Thank you for your reply,

I had downloaded the games and tweaked with the settings a little and they seem to run pretty well. However, I am looking to build my own desktop computer, on a budget of around 300-400$. Any advice would really help.
Also, if I may ask, why should I use the development versions of dolphin?

[DJBarry004]

Because they´re a lot faster and optimized than stable versions.

Quote: I had downloaded the games.

Too bad because that´s illegal. You don´t download ISOs, you dump them from their discs.

[Shonumi]

Downloading games is against the rules.

Closed.