How good is my Computer for Dolphin @1080p?
And which games would run @full speed?
CPU: Intel Core i7-950 @ 3,8 Ghz
RAM: 8 GB
Graphics Card: ATI HD 5770 1GB DDR5
OS: Linux 64bit
As long as you keep SSAA and pixel lighting off you'll be fine with nearly any game. I would highly advise you dual boot with win 7 x64 and use lectrode or xtreme2damax sse4.2 optimized builds.
(02-02-2011, 11:28 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]As long as you keep SSAA and pixel lighting off you'll be fine with nearly any game. I would highly advise you dual boot with win 7 x64 and use lectrode or xtreme2damax sse4.2 optimized builds.
thx for the fast response. I think it would be amazing
to play wii in HD1080p in full speed. I tried to do it
2 years ago on a single core p3@2,2 ghz with nvidia
quadro but it was no fun :p
...so it should run fine on my system and it should run better
on windows? the problem is that me and windows are no good friends.
for my work I use OS X, and for my personal stuff I use debian,
I just love this sytem. I know that some apps run faster with wine
than with real windows vista. maybe there is a possibility to run
the windows version of dolphin on linux with wine?
running dolphin on my hackintosh (the same hardware) seems like a good
alternative to me. what do you think would be the best way to run dolphin
on my system without having to install windows on my pc?
maybe buying some new hardware?
You don't need any new hardware. I haven't tried it on a Mac, but I can tell you that Dolphin will run well in Ubuntu. The easiest way to install it is to add the glennric PPA repository. You can use this in Debian too, can't you?
glennric PPA
The downside of the Linux/Mac version is that it doesn't support the directx plugin, which is slightly faster. The OpenGL plugin isn't bad though. My Core2duo runs most of the games I've tried at a playable, if not full speed. Your machine should be full speed for almost everything. Dolphin will run in wine, but it slows it down significantly. For me, it wasn't worth the hassle of installing windows to get that last bit of performance.
(02-03-2011, 06:18 AM)artantaaa Wrote: [ -> ]You don't need any new hardware. I haven't tried it on a Mac, but I can tell you that Dolphin will run well in Ubuntu. The easiest way to install it is to add the glennric PPA repository. You can use this in Debian too, can't you?
glennric PPA
nice, im glad to hear that!
while googling I found this:
http://www.debianadmin.com/adding-ubuntu-repositories.html
so I think your repositories would also work with debian (squeeze).
will give it a try, otherwise I will install ubuntu just for dolphin, but first I have to
buy a wiimote & a bluetoth dongle.
(02-03-2011, 06:18 AM)artantaaa Wrote: [ -> ]The downside of the Linux/Mac version is that it doesn't support the directx plugin, which is slightly faster. The OpenGL plugin isn't bad though.
If I understand it right, I could balance this disadvantage of
opengl-plugin with a graficcard with good opengl support.
Running it on linux is perfectly fine but you will get better performance using the ICC optimized builds on windows (20-40% improvement I would say). For me the opengl plugin runs like mud on windows compared to d3d9 no matter what I do or how powerful my gpu is. However the linux users in these forums have reported seeing much better performance with the opengl plugin on linux vs. windows. So I don't know how d3d9 on windows stacks up against opengl on linux.
(02-03-2011, 08:31 AM)dubydoo Wrote: [ -> ]will give it a try, otherwise I will install ubuntu just for dolphin, but first I have to
buy a wiimote & a bluetoth dongle.
You need a sensor bar too, unless you're going to use candles. You could test it out with a gamepad, or even the keyboard first though.
(02-03-2011, 08:31 AM)dubydoo Wrote: [ -> ]If I understand it right, I could balance this disadvantage of
opengl-plugin with a graficcard with good opengl support.
I think your card will be okay. It's certainly fast enough, and apparently can be made to work with Linux. Did you have any driver related troubles in Debian?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1463961
If you do decide to get a new card, I would go with Nvidia. I've never had a problem with their drivers.
(02-03-2011, 01:11 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Running it on linux is perfectly fine but you will get better performance using the ICC optimized builds on windows (20-40% improvement I would say). For me the opengl plugin runs like mud on windows compared to d3d9 no matter what I do or how powerful my gpu is. However the linux users in these forums have reported seeing much better performance with the opengl plugin on linux vs. windows. So I don't know how d3d9 on windows stacks up against opengl on linux.
Wow, 20-40%. That would make Mario Galaxy much more enjoyable. You've got me thinking about installing Windows again. Could OpenGL be running 20-40% faster in Linux and make up the difference though? I'll have to try it out at some point. Do you have any idea why Linux OpenGL would be faster than it is in Windows?
(02-03-2011, 01:11 PM)artantaaa Wrote: [ -> ]You need a sensor bar too, unless you're going to use candles. You could test it out with a gamepad, or even the keyboard first though.
sure, how could I forget about sensor bar!
(02-03-2011, 01:11 PM)artantaaa Wrote: [ -> ]Did you have any driver related troubles in Debian?
The drivers I downloaded don't seem to be working very well,
Compiz seems to be working more or less, but you do notice some slowdowns,
which I think they are caused by the driver. I tried my friend's Nvidia Gt240 and
this card seems to run smoother under linux in 3d. Now I have the option to keep
gt240 and give my friend hd5770 for it. Or to bring hd5770 back and get for a little
more money nvidia gtx460, which should also be very silent I was told. Is it a big
difference between gt240 and gtx460 for using with dolphin?
Well, the 5770 is the newest/fastest card in your list, and you already have it, so it might be worth spending some time to see if it will work. Did you get the driver from amd's site? This one?
AMD Linux X86-64
I think this is the same driver you can install in Ubuntu through System->Administration->Hardware drivers, and it has been reported to work. There are also a few bugs reported though, so it might not work well enough for Dolphin. The multiple screens feature doesn't work, so if you're interested in that at all, I would keep your friend's 240 or exchange it for the 460. Either of them will give you 1920x1080, but maybe not at max settings.
http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/showthread.php?tid=14740&highlight=gpu+bottleneck
Have you installed the emulator yet? I'd love to hear how fast the Linux version is on an i7.
A gt240 is sufficient as long as you do everything I said and turn off scaled efb copy. A 5770 is much faster, you won't need to turn off scaled efb copy. A GTX 460 will run any game at 3x efb scale or 2x efb scale + 4xSSAA, some games will run fine at 3x efb scale + 4xSSAA but not all.