(03-27-2010, 07:08 AM)OfSonic Wrote: well my Friend had a laptop and he uses DX9 Plugin and he runs pentium dual core and its Slow because he uses some of intel mobile express graphic chip He played Super smash bross brawl and sonic adventure 2 both Games gave him 50% Speed even Less.
I had a pentium 4 back then with a geforce 9500 graphic card and i was able to Run Sonic adventure 2 battle using DX9 and open GL Both plugins gave me 27-26-25 FPS Over 30 while he Could only archive 15-11-10 FPS Most of the time.
Graphic card also matters specially when you want to use dolphin at its highest settings
if dolphin takes advantage of 2 Graphic Cards that would be awesome.
It's really tough to compare what fps you and you friend were getting since there are so many other variables. We don't know the clock speeds of the processors in question. We don't know what versions of the emulator were used, or what settings were used with each. We also don't know how much RAM each system had and we don't know what operating systems were used along with if they were 32 or 64-bit. When someone tries to make an example like you did it just holds no real value. You can try to say that video cards matter a lot but the fact is that they really do not. As I said, the video card does matter to some extent, but more so when you enable graphic settings more than anything else. But the emulator can run fine with or without a good card.
Asus Laptop: K53TA
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-Bit - SP1
CPU: AMD Llano A6-3400M, Quad-Core, 1.4GHz-2.6GHz (Overclocked)
GPU: AMD Radeon HD6650M, 1GB GDDR3 (Catalyst 13.1)
RAM: Samsung 4GB DDR3-1333
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-Bit - SP1
CPU: AMD Llano A6-3400M, Quad-Core, 1.4GHz-2.6GHz (Overclocked)
GPU: AMD Radeon HD6650M, 1GB GDDR3 (Catalyst 13.1)
RAM: Samsung 4GB DDR3-1333