Scootaloo Wrote:Oddly enough on SpongeBob: TOS I'm getting better performance with 4.0 (stable) than I was with 3.5 (and older revisions).
This is normal for many games considering all of the optimizations that have been made between 3.5 and 4.0
Scootaloo Wrote:Wouldn't that make the audio go faster as well, and make it sound, well bad?
Not if you patch the game or add a hack to the emulator.
Alajarvi84 Wrote:What exactly are "heavy" games, so that i can try them ?
If you're asking for examples. SMG, SMG2, MP2, MP3, the last story, and many many more.
Alajarvi84 Wrote:Btw, is there something wrong with my settings, or what do you mean by "inaccurate" ?
Settings that produce less accurate behavior. They improve performance at the cost of creating issues in some games. Sometimes they are called "speed hacks".
Ok, so you meant that these "hacks" make the emulation process less precise. Like when i play with bSNES or these days (higan) the result is the opposite because it is made to run the emulation exactly like it is supposed to (accurate).
Higan is an emulator, not a setting/option. But yes in a nutshell that's right.
I think I misunderstand the hierarchy. I have an Intel Core i5-460M, which is listed as Extremely Fast, but I can't really run any game at full speed, even with DSP HLE. What are the other bottlenecks? RAM? GPU? I think with the GPU I have (nVidia GeForce 310m) I should be able to get decent speed, but perhaps I'm wrong.
i5 processors are listed in category 1 but that doesn't mean all i5 CPUs are extremely fast. Yours is too weak for a lot of games (your GPU isn't excellent either btw). Moreover it's a laptop
It's because the topic creator doesn't want to break the CPUs down into product generations.
Note to self: Delay new thread one additional year
(10-07-2013, 02:12 AM)LordVador Wrote: [ -> ]i5 processors are listed in category 1 but that doesn't mean all i5 CPUs are extremely fast. Yours is too weak for a lot of games (your GPU isn't excellent either btw). Moreover it's a laptop
What exactly does being a laptop have to do with it?
The same set-up in a desktop computer wouldn't be any faster.
Anyway, the OP should probably mention that some CPUs listed as "fast" won't be super-fast in some generations since I thought my future laptop would be since it had a i5-mobile, but it apparently not powerful enough still.
(11-06-2013, 08:57 AM)Razzi Wrote: [ -> ] (10-07-2013, 02:12 AM)LordVador Wrote: [ -> ]i5 processors are listed in category 1 but that doesn't mean all i5 CPUs are extremely fast. Yours is too weak for a lot of games (your GPU isn't excellent either btw). Moreover it's a laptop
What exactly does being a laptop have to do with it?
The same set-up in a desktop computer wouldn't be any faster.
Anyway, the OP should probably mention that some CPUs listed as "fast" won't be super-fast in some generations since I thought my future laptop would be since it had a i5-mobile, but it apparently not powerful enough still.
Chips for laptops are always weaker than their desktop counterparts since they use less electric power. That is a well known fact, so it can be easily omitted most of the time.
(11-06-2013, 09:06 AM)Link_to_the_past Wrote: [ -> ]Chips for laptops are always weaker than their desktop counterparts since they use less electric power. That is a well known fact, so it can be easily omitted most of the time.
Really? Always?
You mean just plain weaker or that they're underclocked?