Is my laptop good enough to run dolphin?

[NCarpio16]

Hi.

Is my laptop good enough to run dolphin?

Here are my specs:
Intel Core i3 3120M @ 2.50 GHz
4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M

Thanks.....

[ExtremeDude2]

What games do you want to run?

[NCarpio16]

(12-06-2013, 01:45 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: What games do you want to run?

Gamecube games and some Wii games.

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(12-06-2013, 01:45 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: What games do you want to run?

I Was planning to play Xenoblade, The Last Story, Sin and Punishment, Skyward Sword, and Mario Galaxy.

So far, I can play Wind Waker, SSBB, Just Dance 3 and Just Dance 2014 at full speed with minor FPS drop (this doesn't happen much).

I can also play Twilight Princess at 30 FPS but I don't know what will happen if I go to Hyrule Field. A lot of people are saying that the game becomes slow when you reach there. By the way I play both the GC and the Wii version.

[ExtremeDude2]

Most of those wii games are very demanding, so they won't run fullspeed

[Zee530]

(12-06-2013, 01:48 AM)NCarpio16 Wrote: I can also play Twilight Princess at 30 FPS but I don't know what will happen if I go to Hyrule Field. A lot of people are saying that the game becomes slow when you reach there. By the way I play both the GC and the Wii version.

The farther you go into the game the heavier hyrule field becomes, you can search the forums if you're curious as to why. The GC version runs better than the wii, but the wii has it's own set of advantages.

[linker357]

The last story doesn't run full speed at some points even in some Wii's, it's an extremely demanding game. Mario galaxy and xenoblade are heavy duty too so you might want to get a faster CPU

[Shonumi]

Xenoblade Chronicles, on the CPU side at least, often gets portrayed as demanding. It's not really, at least anything Sandy Bridge or better can run it consistently fullspeed when clocked to 3.3GHz (Ivy Bridge and Haswell will reach that same level of performance at lower clocks, obviously). Most of the slowdowns I encountered seemed to be related to the framelimit; certain settings would drop no matter what, even though holding Tab to temporarily disable the framelimit gave me no drops at all. The right settings basically cured all of the slowdowns I was getting in battle. On the GPU side though, it's a bit more intensive, though not too much. It'll make average GPUs (comparable to mine that is) struggle with high IRs (3x and above) and any amount of AA, although using IR alone is completely doable.

As it relates to the OP, however he'll get frequent slowdowns, since the CPU is too slow (despite my upbeat assessment of this game in Dolphin above :p)

[NCarpio16]

(12-06-2013, 09:45 AM)linker357 Wrote: The last story doesn't run full speed at some points even in some Wii's, it's an extremely demanding game. Mario galaxy and xenoblade are heavy duty too so you might want to get a faster CPU

I might get a new PC, maybe in 4 years. But I can run Mario Galaxy at 50 - 60 FPS...

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(12-06-2013, 04:01 PM)Shonumi Wrote: Xenoblade Chronicles, on the CPU side at least, often gets portrayed as demanding. It's not really, at least anything Sandy Bridge or better can run it consistently fullspeed when clocked to 3.3GHz (Ivy Bridge and Haswell will reach that same level of performance at lower clocks, obviously). Most of the slowdowns I encountered seemed to be related to the framelimit; certain settings would drop no matter what, even though holding Tab to temporarily disable the framelimit gave me no drops at all. The right settings basically cured all of the slowdowns I was getting in battle. On the GPU side though, it's a bit more intensive, though not too much. It'll make average GPUs (comparable to mine that is) struggle with high IRs (3x and above) and any amount of AA, although using IR alone is completely doable.

As it relates to the OP, however he'll get frequent slowdowns, since the CPU is too slow (despite my upbeat assessment of this game in Dolphin above :p)

I already have a copy of those games I have mentioned. If I have some time, I will try them. But if it does not work, I'll just have to play them on a real Wii. By the way, could you post your settings? Thanks.

[admin89]

Quote:But I can run Mario Galaxy at 50 - 60 FPS

At the menu and some galaxy , Most galaxy you won't even have halfspeed if you use the "correct settings" (Skip EFB to CPU access is disabled for the cursor)
Seriously , most people here know that an i3 @ 2.5GHz won't run Mario Galaxy at playable speed . Not even close

[NCarpio16]

(12-06-2013, 07:53 PM)admin89 Wrote:

Quote:But I can run Mario Galaxy at 50 - 60 FPS

At the menu and some galaxy , Most galaxy you won't even have halfspeed if you use the "correct settings" (Skip EFB to CPU access is disabled for the cursor)
Seriously , most people here know that an i3 @ 2.5GHz won't run Mario Galaxy at playable speed . Not even close

I can run it at that speed at Dolphin revision 6515. It really depends on the settings and what version of dolphin you are using. Latest versions tend to run slower on a computer like mine.