Alright, I'm aware of the redundancy of such a thread so I'm going to quote something from a forum user to indicate that I have looked around:
Currently Dolphin itself runs pretty well, and the problems that I do have are minor and probably mostly related to the still limited power of the emulator. I'm not looking for any help with a specific game per say, but the main game I will be running is The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, both GameCube and Wii versions that I plan to do recordings with as I don't have any other method of recording directly from my TV.
So what hardware do I have right now?
Well here's my system specifications that I will add to my signature soon:
MOBO: GIGABYTE Z68X-UD4-B3
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-2600K @ 3.4 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA 9600 GT
RAM: Ripjaws X 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2133
OS: Windows 7 64 bit; Windows Vista 64 bit; Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit
Right now my graphics card is pretty much the only slightly old piece of hardware in my computer. My current NVIDIA 9600 GT is factory overclocked to 700 MHz. I know my next step up should be one of those GTX cards, but I clearly don't need the absolute best to notice a big difference and I don't know if all of them support DirectX 11, but that'd be nice to have as well as my current card doesn't. I just don't know exactly which one I should go with and typically, the less expensive, the better.
Also on a side performance question, I typically run Dolphin under OpenGL as it seems to work better for the most part, does it make any difference performance wise between running that under Linux, or under Windows?
(Another side kind of unrelated question, is there any difference between the source version of Dolphin as in downloading and compiling the source, and the binary version like for Windows the current binary being 3.5-367)
(12-07-2012, 09:54 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: GTX 690 > GTX 590 > GTX 680 > GTX 580/GTX 670 > GTX 570/GTX 660 TI > GTX 560 TI/GTX 660 > GTX 560/GTX 650 TI > GTX 550 TI and so on....
The second digit refers to how fast a GPU is within its series (90, 80, 70, 60, etc.). So for example a GTX 680 will be faster than a GTX 670. The first digit refers to the series. A comparable card from a newer series will be faster than the older version. For example a GTX 650 will be faster than the 550 TI from the previous generation which it replaced. In recent times it is usually on par with the level above it from the previous series.
Currently Dolphin itself runs pretty well, and the problems that I do have are minor and probably mostly related to the still limited power of the emulator. I'm not looking for any help with a specific game per say, but the main game I will be running is The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, both GameCube and Wii versions that I plan to do recordings with as I don't have any other method of recording directly from my TV.
So what hardware do I have right now?
Well here's my system specifications that I will add to my signature soon:
MOBO: GIGABYTE Z68X-UD4-B3
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-2600K @ 3.4 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA 9600 GT
RAM: Ripjaws X 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2133
OS: Windows 7 64 bit; Windows Vista 64 bit; Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit
Right now my graphics card is pretty much the only slightly old piece of hardware in my computer. My current NVIDIA 9600 GT is factory overclocked to 700 MHz. I know my next step up should be one of those GTX cards, but I clearly don't need the absolute best to notice a big difference and I don't know if all of them support DirectX 11, but that'd be nice to have as well as my current card doesn't. I just don't know exactly which one I should go with and typically, the less expensive, the better.
Also on a side performance question, I typically run Dolphin under OpenGL as it seems to work better for the most part, does it make any difference performance wise between running that under Linux, or under Windows?
(Another side kind of unrelated question, is there any difference between the source version of Dolphin as in downloading and compiling the source, and the binary version like for Windows the current binary being 3.5-367)
[color=#FF4500][color=#ff00ff]Dolphin: 4.0-1767[/color]
MOBO: MSI Z87M Gaming[/color]
[color=#1E90FF]CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4770K OC'd @ 4.2 GHz[/color]
[color=#32CD32]GPU: EVGA GTX 660 Ti[/color]
[color=#FF0000]RAM: Ripjaws X 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2133[/color] [color=#ff0000]MHz[/color]
[color=#000080]OS: Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit; SteamOS
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MOBO: MSI Z87M Gaming[/color]
[color=#1E90FF]CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4770K OC'd @ 4.2 GHz[/color]
[color=#32CD32]GPU: EVGA GTX 660 Ti[/color]
[color=#FF0000]RAM: Ripjaws X 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2133[/color] [color=#ff0000]MHz[/color]
[color=#000080]OS: Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit; SteamOS
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