Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

(08-25-2010, 05:26 PM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: [ -> ]Benchmarks say otherwise, Windows 7 is now king. Something was definitely fubar'd with your install. Plenty of people run Windows 7 on a netbook without problems, as do those with older systems.. A 2 - 3 Ghz processor, semi-decent video card and 1+ GB of ram should be fine. Some are even running on 512 MB - 768 MB of ram just fine, any lower than that and the installer needs to be edited to install on systems with less than 512 MB ram.

You know standard right?

Those people and you may be satisfied with win 7 and 1GB but not me, I should have said that I use Windows 7 x64 though.

And btw, those netbook with 1GB of ram and Win 7 seems pretty slow to me.

OK all i have to say is so what if you can run Win7 with or with less than 1GB, it's all very good runnning it with that amount but when it comes to using it for more resource heavy things such as gaming (hell it doesn't even have to be a modern game, pretty much all games use over 512 RAM after 2005-6ish) and Dolphin or even multiple small programs (e.g. web browser, media player, etc) that goes out the window, if you wanna run things like Dolphin on the smallest amount of RAM xp is the way to go in my opinion (hell i have an ancient PC downstairs which came with xp and that thing only has 128mb RAM, so you definatly would have space to play with, with 1GB).

But if you have anything from 2GB then i'd say use Win7, it's faster than XP (when you have enough RAM to use it properly), and there's no difference/slow down when i play the same game on the same settings as i would on xp. Don't fall for the marketing though other than being faster most of Win7's (and vista for that matters) "security" features such as UAC are waste of space annoyances when it's turned on.

(08-25-2010, 05:26 PM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: [ -> ]Benchmarks say otherwise, Windows 7 is now king. Something was definitely fubar'd with your install. Plenty of people run Windows 7 on a netbook without problems, as do those with older systems.. A 2 - 3 Ghz processor, semi-decent video card and 1+ GB of ram should be fine. Some are even running on 512 MB - 768 MB of ram just fine, any lower than that and the installer needs to be edited to install on systems with less than 512 MB ram.

Well,Netbooks have 1.0-1.6ghz atom processors, integrated intel graphics chip.
I have a pretty high-range netbook with an atom n470 processor for casual browsing and reading pdf books, it would constantly crawl even with only 2-3 open apps. (It came with Win7 starter edition)

Decided to just downgrade to XP & linux and it runs as smooth as a desktop PC now, and is able to multitask much better.
I believe you confused netbook (8-10" small piece of electronics) with notebook/laptops, which are very adequate for all sorts of tasks and prob. can even run an OS such as win7 on 1gb of RAM.



I'm not sure which one the thread starter has but win7 is definitely sluggish on netbooks, can speak from experience..

i have 1gb Ram tested on wins 7 32bit ,it run fine but with dolphin/PCSX2 ....not responding for a time when i exit/stop emulation...same as some PC games(Age of Empire 3,Dynasty Warriors 6) and it depend on how long you play

Lol.... XP. That 10-year-old piece of crap doesn't natively support ANYTHING in my system.

-Dual cores hit after XP
-SLI/CFX hit after XP
-PCIe 2.0 hit after XP
-SATA hit after XP
-XP is 32 bit, and it's 64 bit edition is the 32-bit + some fail

Service packs patched a lot of support in, but the underlying architecture doesn't support it, therefore, it's slower than an OS built around them from the start (Vista/7).

Hey ! You know Obama still using XP for....security

I have a netbook that runs 7 pretty decently although I haven't used it in a while due to a cracked screen. It was the 1.6 Ghz atom that I have overclocked to 2.0GHz and it has an Nvidia Ion chipset that is equivalent to a 9400M which aint much to talk about but I could play call of duty 4 on it. Once i fix the screen on it i plan to get a 2GB DDR3 stick to put it at 3GB of ram. It was the XP model which used the ion-le(DX9) but I changed the bios to make it the ion(DX10) chipset.

i have 2 gigs of ram...
got win 7 64bit and mine is taking 840 of ram... (1,2 when i am playing with dolphin)

you can downgrade to XP but use the 64bit edition.
or just stuck with win7(64 bit), make a fresh install....

(08-26-2010, 05:00 AM)sNk Wrote: [ -> ]i have 2 gigs of ram...
got win 7 64bit and mine is taking 840 of ram... (1,2 when i am playing with dolphin)

you can downgrade to XP but use the 64bit edition.
or just stuck with win7(64 bit), make a fresh install....

64bit XP ONLY suites best when looking for some FAIL

Can you elaborate? in my experience of using it, nothing that remotely looks to be fail with that OS. No driver issue, no program compatibility issue, no nonsense, it just works.