Is my PC enough to run games a 1024x786 fullscreen?

[LordVador]

(12-05-2012, 03:04 AM)riahc3 Wrote: Do I have enough to play GC games?

Depends on the games. Which ones do you plan to play?

[riahc3]

(12-05-2012, 03:26 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: GC and Wii games are similar in demand on the emulator, and both have a large range. Some games won't run on any hardware at a playable speed (anything that requires interpreter) and some will run even on weak systems. You'll have to tell us a specific game.

No, you can't use OpenCL or CUDA to decrease CPU load, firstly because it would be a lot of work for the devs to make it possible, and secondly because it would make it incredibly hard to sync different threads if they were that far from each other.

(12-05-2012, 03:32 AM)LordVador Wrote:

(12-05-2012, 03:04 AM)riahc3 Wrote: Do I have enough to play GC games?

Depends on the games. Which ones do you plan to play?

Super Smash

BTW, thank you for being so helpful and quick. A lot of forums tend to be full of assholes..... So thank you very much

[LordVador]

(12-05-2012, 05:01 AM)riahc3 Wrote: Super Smash

I guess this isn't the only game you wanna play .
But yeah SSBM should work fine

(12-05-2012, 05:01 AM)riahc3 Wrote: BTW, thank you for being so helpful and quick. A lot of forums tend to be full of assholes..... So thank you very much

Yeah this forum is the best one

[riahc3]

Tried the GC's Super Smash and its a BIT laggy but playable....How can I get that extra squeeze out of it?

[LordVador]

(12-05-2012, 05:15 AM)riahc3 Wrote: Tried the GC's Super Smash and its a BIT laggy but playable....How can I get that extra squeeze out of it?

Use these settings http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-settings-for-best-speed-unofficial
If this isn't enough you're just facing to your system limits then there's nothing you can do (if the overclock option has already been used)

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:No, you can't use OpenCL or CUDA to decrease CPU load, firstly because it would be a lot of work for the devs to make it possible, and secondly because it would make it incredibly hard to sync different threads if they were that far from each other.

I.....wait what? That makes no sense.

[AnyOldName3]

Just read the 'No' in that case. Basically, he was asking if some load could be shifted to the GPU (like some PC games use CUDA/PhysX/OpenCL to reduce CPU load), and I said that it was not possible. The first reason is that a Dev would have to write it into the source code, and that's extra work for the Devs. The second reason is that it would be hard to sync the stuff on the GPU and the stuff on the CPU, much in the same way that it would be hard to sync everything if an extra core was used, as Dolphin would have to decide which instructions to send to which things, and carry the results to the right place when they were needed, hence a performance decrease (You're unable to multithread code written for one thread).

I think I should have left this at 'No'.

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:The second reason is that it would be hard to sync the stuff on the GPU and the stuff on the CPU, much in the same way that it would be hard to sync everything if an extra core was used, as Dolphin would have to decide which instructions to send to which things, and carry the results to the right place when they were needed, hence a performance decrease (You're unable to multithread code written for one thread).

This part makes little sense. CUDA threads are not like windows or posix threads, I'll just leave it at that.

Quote:I think I should have left this at 'No'.

Yes, I think you should have.

[riahc3]

(12-05-2012, 05:12 AM)LordVador Wrote:

(12-05-2012, 05:01 AM)riahc3 Wrote: Super Smash

I guess this isn't the only game you wanna play .
But yeah SSBM should work fine

(12-05-2012, 05:01 AM)riahc3 Wrote: BTW, thank you for being so helpful and quick. A lot of forums tend to be full of assholes..... So thank you very much

Yeah this forum is the best one

(12-05-2012, 05:22 AM)LordVador Wrote:

(12-05-2012, 05:15 AM)riahc3 Wrote: Tried the GC's Super Smash and its a BIT laggy but playable....How can I get that extra squeeze out of it?

Use these settings http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-settings-for-best-speed-unofficial
If this isn't enough you're just facing to your system limits then there's nothing you can do (if the overclock option has already been used)

THe thing is that those screenshots look NOTHING like my options.

What graphics plugin is used there???

[LordVador]

(12-10-2012, 12:09 AM)riahc3 Wrote: THe thing is that those screenshots look NOTHING like my options.

What graphics plugin is used there???

DX9 since it's the fastest backend.

What revision are you using? Recent builds aren't really different from this. But if you're using an old build it's another story indeed