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KittyWhale · 10-25-2022, 10:09 AM **#16,361**

Hi! I tried posting this and I guess worded it wrong. Are there any plans to make dolphin be able to run Donkey Kong Country Returns on Co-op?

***MayImilae*** · (This post was last modified: 10-25-2022, 11:37 AM by MayImilae.)

I moved your post to its own dedicated thread, as actual Dolphin questions are the only thing that are offtopic in random. You can find that thread here! -> https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-dkcr-co-op

***MayImilae*** · (This post was last modified: 10-27-2022, 11:56 PM by MayImilae.)

*lights flicker* It's alive~

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***Shonumi*** · 10-28-2022, 04:36 AM **#16,364**

Nice stats! That multicore/multithreaded performance is insane. Got any specific plans or workloads for that 32C/64T beast?

***MayImilae*** · (This post was last modified: 04-13-2023, 03:11 AM by MayImilae.)

Code compilation, gaming (it's the house "gaming PC"), and some rendering. I've been doing more and more Dolphin development and as what I'm working on gets more advanced the compilation times have been going up. This will really chew through that no problem. I don't do big CG render jobs too often these days but any time I need to, it will blow it away. As a gaming PC, obviously it's extreme overkill in multithread, but it's solid single thread performance makes it better at it than you might think - considerably better than the 9900k it replaced.

Though honestly, it's a bit much CPU for me. Though the system had already outgrown consumer chips (or more precisely consumer motherboards), a 24 core Threadripper would have been more than enough for me. Even that is a HUGE step up from what I'm used to! But there are a lot of reasons for going with the 32 core, like how this CPU was in Sonicadvance's work system for a few months helping him make money until the 5995WX FINALLY showed up in stores a couple of weeks ago. You know, after Zen 4 released. Ugh. We didn't trust AMD whatsoever after their handling of Threadripper this gen and we were proven completely correct. The fact that it is good enough even for that role is pretty cool, and it's always good to have a backup.

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***Shonumi*** · 10-28-2022, 02:51 PM **#16,366**

I see you updated your post right when I was about to ask if you had any plans on getting the 4090 Big Grin

Have to admit, although the price for that is nuts, it seems to have some mind-blowing performance, especially with RT.

I'm curious what your compile times are for Dolphin btw, if you don't mind sharing.

***MayImilae*** · 10-28-2022, 03:03 PM **#16,367**

I do all my coding stuff in Linux, and I still need to set that up. Maybe WSL2 could do it instead of a dedicated Linux installation? I'll be experimenting. I'll post some Dolphin compile times when I get the chance!

**mbc07** · (This post was last modified: 10-28-2022, 06:56 PM by mbc07.)

From my limited testing, as long as you keep the project source inside WSL2's filesystem (which Windows will map to a virtual hard disk under the hood), compile times should be very close to running the real thing. Move the source outside (e.g. via the virtual mount points at /mnt/<drive letter>/whatever) and performance will be slaughtered due to Windows emulating EXT4 features not supported on NTFS via extended file attributes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

**AnyOldName3** · 10-29-2022, 02:49 AM **#16,369**

If I'm remembering correctly most of them are supported by NTFS, but not by Windows itself. It was designed to be a state-of-the-art POSIX-friendly filesystem, despite the drivers necessary to make it actually usable for that never having been written.

**KHg8m3r** · 10-29-2022, 02:21 PM **#16,370**

It feels like it was much more recent than it actually was when you were showing off that sweet 9900K Dodecahedron box.