Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Updated post with average FPS.

The family computer died this morning (it's probably fixable, maybe just a broken MBR, maybe something hardware related) but we decided it was time for an upgrade anyway (this thing is circa '08). We're going to buy a new system sometime today. Hopefully there will be some Haswell models to choose from. I think it would be useful to see how current run-of-the-mill OEM systems run Dolphin since a lot of users come here with that kind of hardware and we can show them some numbers when their performance is less than expected.

Won't be able to benchmark Dolphin right away, since we have a few terabytes of data that needs to be shuffled around, programs to reinstall, Windows 8 to eliminate, etc.

Shonumi Wrote:Windows 8 to eliminate

Just install start 8 or wait for windows 8.1

My family computer is circa '06, and my family are adamant that it isn't due an upgrade.

(07-21-2013, 05:27 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]

Shonumi Wrote:Windows 8 to eliminate

Just install start 8 or wait for windows 8.1

But that don't rhyme man

It's not my decision, since I'm scarcely going to be using it aside from internet browsing. The rest of the family will decide what's the most comfortable option for them. They do want Windows 7, but the install disk I have is only 32-bits. If the machine we buy comes with a 64-bit version of Windows 8, I'm going to advocate that they wait for 8.1 to get a native boot-to-desktop solution. Otherwise we'll just replace the 32-bit Windows 8 with 32-bits Windows 7. They're not really sold on 8, but I can entice them with a 64-bit OS (my dad wants the extra RAM). If I really had my way though, they'd be running Linux...

@AON3 - Just make it look like it can't boot, and they'll change their minds (or force you to fix it).

Anything I can break, they could bodge. The closest I've successfully got was to change the default browser from IE to a batch file to open a lot of instances of IE. My dad's solution was to uninstall chrome, because, obviously, the issue was that I'd changed the default browser to chrome and that chrome doesn't work. For someone with a reasonable amount of experience with computers, my dad can do a lot of wrong stuff.

Well, turns out we bought an all-in-one computer with an i3-3220 (didn't see any Haswell models on the floor at Best Buy). This thing isn't suitable for running Dolphin (it has an HD 2500, it'd get too hot too fast) but I'll still contribute to the benchmarking probably tomorrow or the day after. Today I'm mostly copying data and reinstalling various programs.

Updated the chart. Only 2 new results have been posted in the past two weeks.

I understand a lot of people are wanting an FX-6300 benchmark, so here you go

Specs:

AMD FX-6300 @ 3.50GHz (Stock)
8GB DDR3-1600MHz RAm
HD7870 @ 2GB
Windows 8 x64

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Save 1:



FPS/VPS/Speed
50/100/166%




Save 2:


FPS/VPS/Speed
40/81/135%




Save 3:


FPS/VPS/Speed
67/134/223%




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I'm pretty happy with it, it's powerful for it's price! I'll try some more hard-to-run stuff a bit later, but for now I'm enjoying me some Melee ;P

(07-21-2013, 09:46 AM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ]But that don't rhyme man

It's not my decision, since I'm scarcely going to be using it aside from internet browsing. The rest of the family will decide what's the most comfortable option for them. They do want Windows 7, but the install disk I have is only 32-bits.

You can download all Win 7 ISOs here from ******, as long as you have a valid license for your Win 7 x86 you can use that with the same version that is x64..

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