Hello Dolphin users,
I'm building a HTPC/steambox kind of thing for our tv corner. We're going to use this machine to play films and series, as well as to play some indie games and perhaps stream some of the larger titles via the steam streaming service.
I've recently stumbled across Dolphin and we'd like to get it up and running on this machine as well. Now I've perceived that Dolphin is quite the software and is not too light on performance.
At the moment we're planning to use an I3 4130 or I3 4150 processor in conjunction with a MSI GTX 750 TI NVIDIA graphics card. We've got four xbox-controllers as input method.
I'd like to be able to play both gamecube and wii games on the system. It'll have to run on a resolution of 1920x1080, however I don't find the extra graphics options dolphin provides essential (apart from the resolution). So if having a stable 60 frames per second on a demanding game requires disabling graphical enhancements such as anti-alias I'm not too worried.
I've got quite a few questions that I'd love answered. Sorry for my ignorance if some prove elementary, I've strolled the forums for a few days and could not find definitive answers on these.
1. Will this setup be able to run most games? I'd like to play games such as Mario Kart, Zelda and Tales of Symphonia.
2. Are there some obvious hardware choices I'm missing? That is, are there in this price range parts that give significant performance increases for Dolphin?
3. Should I go for an i3 4130 or for an i3 4150?
Thank you for your time and your responses, and apologies if my goals are unrealistic.
All the best,
Ties
I'm building a HTPC/steambox kind of thing for our tv corner. We're going to use this machine to play films and series, as well as to play some indie games and perhaps stream some of the larger titles via the steam streaming service.
I've recently stumbled across Dolphin and we'd like to get it up and running on this machine as well. Now I've perceived that Dolphin is quite the software and is not too light on performance.
At the moment we're planning to use an I3 4130 or I3 4150 processor in conjunction with a MSI GTX 750 TI NVIDIA graphics card. We've got four xbox-controllers as input method.
I'd like to be able to play both gamecube and wii games on the system. It'll have to run on a resolution of 1920x1080, however I don't find the extra graphics options dolphin provides essential (apart from the resolution). So if having a stable 60 frames per second on a demanding game requires disabling graphical enhancements such as anti-alias I'm not too worried.
I've got quite a few questions that I'd love answered. Sorry for my ignorance if some prove elementary, I've strolled the forums for a few days and could not find definitive answers on these.
1. Will this setup be able to run most games? I'd like to play games such as Mario Kart, Zelda and Tales of Symphonia.
2. Are there some obvious hardware choices I'm missing? That is, are there in this price range parts that give significant performance increases for Dolphin?
3. Should I go for an i3 4130 or for an i3 4150?
Thank you for your time and your responses, and apologies if my goals are unrealistic.
All the best,
Ties