Hey, I'm running an Intel Quad-Core processor @ 2.40 GHz and was wondering how well games would run, or if the emulator has quad-core support at all. If it doesn't, would running the game on two CPU's be a proper adjustment?
Quad-Core Processing
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05-27-2010, 09:53 AM
05-27-2010, 11:09 AM
If you only intend to use a pc for movies or dolphin you are just better off saving money and buying a core 2 duo or core i3. Dolphin doesn't utilize 4 or 6 core processors fully. Like boogerlad said it will only use 1 core to process game code and another for dsp emulation and video output
05-28-2010, 07:40 AM
Also from my own experience, a quad core and a dual core on the same i5 family. The quad core performs much much better for me, I don't know why but I suppose that it's because Dolphin has two cores for itself and for itself only. Thats then only logical explanation that I can think of, since other cores can be busy with the system, services or other background apps.
Rig *Corei5 3570K *Nvidia 9800GT 1GB DDR3 *Motherboard Asus P8H77M-PRO *Win7 x64 *RAM 8GB DDR3(1600) 06-04-2010, 10:42 AM
Does anyone know if dolphin is going to be made to support 4 cores in the future?
adding a quadcore support is not an easy thing.... it will take some time... maybe 1 or 2 years? maybe never?
just wait and drink some tea.
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(06-16-2010, 03:05 AM)fabry92 Wrote: when dolphin will supports 4 cores? Why would it? There is no need to process much more than game emulation & dsp sound emulation, and video rendering. 2 cores is enough for that, and newer dual cores already yield full fps in games. All quad core processors in conjunction with a good gpu will also give full fps even if just two cores are being utilized. Wii emulation by dolphin will never 'require' more than 2 cores at reasonable clock frequency to run smoothly. Maybe we can talk about 4, 6, 8, 16 core support 20 years later with xbox360 or ps3 emulators. |
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