Minimum PC Requirements For Metroid Other M

[bogey_j]

not everything has to be 1080p super-aliasing graphical settings or anything, but what would you say are the minimum requirements for a pc to run this at full-speed? maybe with some speed hacks on and appropriate settings for a weak pc?

[DefenderX]

Metroid Other M runs most of the time @ fullspeed on my Macbook Pro Retina (through Bootcamp in Windows 7) on a Core i7-3615QM. So I'd say, that a fast Intel Core i3 Desktop CPU will be able to play this game @ fullspeed.

[sirkingchase]

I am interested as well Im wanting to get a geforce 650. Would that be sufficient?

I am only looking to play games at 720p ( screen is 23' no point of 1080p). Geforce 650 is around $100, low profile, and has 384 Cudas. Its the most bang for the buck card I have found so far. Nvidia are the only cards that work properly on linux.

I have been testing the emulator on my Linux box for about a week now. I have phenom x6 3.2 GHZ and a Geforce 430. Iev been playing Mario Kart which goes down to 30 FPS sometimes. And have tested Donkey Kong and Super Mario both run 60 FPS.

I might be upgrading my CPU to piledriver when they come out because they supposedly will have really high clock speed. But my graphics card should give me the biggest jump. I will never spend over $125 on a graphics card.

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:I am interested as well Im wanting to get a geforce 650. Would that be sufficient?

Yes. It should handle 3x IR like a champ.

Quote:screen is 23' no point of 1080p

If your monitor supports 1080p then it's going to make a huge difference regardless of the screen size.

Quote:384 Cudas

"Cudas" doesn't make any sense in that sentence. CUDA is an framework. There is no plural of CUDA. Cuda cores or SPs (stream processors) would be the proper terminology, preferably the latter.

Quote:Its the most bang for the buck card I have found so far.

Then you haven't been looking very hard since nearly every popular card out their from both major brands beats it in performance per dollar, especially the competing AMD cards.

Quote:Nvidia are the only cards that work properly on linux.

That's not even close to being true. And this is coming from a well known nvidia fanboy and linux user (me). Nvidia might have better drivers on linux but saying that AMD cards don't work properly on linux is just completely wrong.

Quote:I might be upgrading my CPU to piledriver when they come out because they supposedly will have really high clock speed.

Don't waste your money. Even AMDs expectations for piledriver are not up to par with what sandy/ivy bridge cpus are delivering now.

Quote: But my graphics card should give me the biggest jump.

Unless you're planning to play games at high internal resolutions it won't. Your current card is good enough for at least 1x or 1.5x IR. Upgrading your cpu is more important.

[sirkingchase]

Thanks for your reply.


What video card do you recommend that is better than the 650 but same price and not ATI?

I have never gotten hardware acceleration to work with ATI and do not want to go down that road again. Maybe dolphin-emu has some special sauce that works directly with the ATI cards and makes them run good in linux because their drivers are inferior on Linux no matter which way you cut it. People like ATI because they support open source driver development and overlook the fact that there drivers are complete garbage.

FYI it doesn't take a genius to figure out what I meant by "CUDAS"

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:What video card do you recommend that is better than the 650 but same price and not ATI?

Well those are two very big limitations. Does it have to be exactly the same price? The 550 TI is slightly faster and roughly the same price, the 560 SE is moderately faster and a bit more expensive.

Quote:I have never gotten hardware acceleration to work with ATI and do not want to go down that road again.

By hardware acceleration I'm going to assume that you are specifically referring to hardware acceleration for video decoding/rendering. Since hardware acceleration for 3D rendering should be nearly impossible to break.

Quote:Maybe dolphin-emu has some special sauce that works directly with the ATI cards and makes them run good in linux because their drivers are inferior on Linux no matter which way you cut it.

Dolphin uses openGL just like everything else for hardware acceleration. However to my knowledge we've never had a linux user complain about having issues running dolphin on their amd/ati card in the three years that I've been here.

Quote:makes them run good in linux because their drivers are inferior on Linux no matter which way you cut it. People like ATI because they support open source driver development and overlook the fact that there drivers are complete garbage.

Fair enough.

Quote:FYI it doesn't take a genius to figure out what I meant by "CUDAS"

"You know what I meant" is never a good excuse for using incorrect terminology, spelling, or grammar.

[sirkingchase]

I will take your recomenations into consideration.

I aplogize for my spelling I am a computer scientist not an english major.

My experience with ati cards has been from xbmc which uses vaapi for rendering. I built a linux server that stays in ny sons playroom. It amongst other things is used for xbmc and now sinces he's old enough, games.

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:I aplogize for my spelling I am a computer scientist not an english major.

.....that's actually more of a reason that you should have used the correct term. An English major would be less likely to know what CUDA is and what stream processors are.

I do admit I was a bit harsh with my tone. I apologize if I sounded rude.

Quote:My experience with ati cards has been from xbmc which uses vaapi for rendering

That explains a lot. Vaapi and AMD cards don't get along too well, as you already know.

Given your limitations of brand, price, and form factor (low profile) a GTX 650 is probably the logical choice like you originally suggested.

If you want to run metroid other M well all the time I would highly advice that you save up for a sandy/ivy bridge cpu and LGA 1155 motherboard instead.

[sirkingchase]

I just installed an old Geforce 250 GTS 1GB that I had laying around. Its considerably better than the 430 and rivals 650. And there was absolutely no difference in frame rate. My CPU is Phenom 960t unlocked to x6, I had it conservatively overlocked it to 3.2

After reading up on Dolphin-emu, I learned that its more CPU intensive rather GPU. I overlocked my CPU to 3.8 and now Im getting steady 60 FPS.

Granted this is only Mario Kart, I will test Metroid Other M in a few days and post back with results.

Should I keep the 250 in it? It runs hotter and uses alot more power. I have not figured out how to use internal resolution, it makes everything too big, its like only seeing a corner of a screen.

[Axxer]

The 650 should be much faster. The only reason they have similar performance in your case was because the CPU was bottle necking your GPU.

Dolphin is CPU intensive because of the JIT recompiler and changed one Wii CPU instruction into multiple x86 CPU instructions.

I'm not too familiar with GPUs, so I wouldn't know anything about your 250 vs 430, but the 650 would destroy them both.