Hi there! I have a fairly older machine in an arcade cabinet I built that I use with Hyperspin. I'd like to add Dolphin to the lineup of emulators if I could. I've tried it and on lowest settings most games are not playable due to a slowdown when anything significant is rendered. Things run smoothly in menus and in less intensive scenes but when anything too flashy is rendered (especially split screen multiplayer), it lags and becomes pretty unplayable. Here are the specs:
Dell Optiplex 745 (Small Form/Compact)
Windows 7
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
XFX AMD Radeon HD 5450 1GB GDDR3
4GB Memory
Nothing has been overclocked, and I'm not too sure how to do that.
Here's my main question: Could I get a significant speed boost by upgrading the CPU to a Core 2 Duo E6700? All I want is for things to run smoothly on the lowest settings. Is Dolphin more CPU or GPU intensive? I just upgraded the GPU, so I'd rather not do that again if I could avoid it. But if it comes down to it, I would be willing to. But I could grab an E6700 CPU on eBay for pretty cheap so I am wondering if that would actually speed things up?
Thanks for any help!
Dell Optiplex 745 (Small Form/Compact)
Windows 7
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
XFX AMD Radeon HD 5450 1GB GDDR3
4GB Memory
Nothing has been overclocked, and I'm not too sure how to do that.
Here's my main question: Could I get a significant speed boost by upgrading the CPU to a Core 2 Duo E6700? All I want is for things to run smoothly on the lowest settings. Is Dolphin more CPU or GPU intensive? I just upgraded the GPU, so I'd rather not do that again if I could avoid it. But if it comes down to it, I would be willing to. But I could grab an E6700 CPU on eBay for pretty cheap so I am wondering if that would actually speed things up?
Thanks for any help!