Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

(06-25-2019, 10:18 PM)namanix Wrote: [ -> ]I've received my RP4 and will be installing it tonight. Has anyone tried to compile the dolphin source to test performance? Or is this impossible?
If no one has tried it. I will do that tonight and post some results

A lot of people in this forum think it won't be a great performance increase but there is a youtuber that actually did openGL benchmarks with performance boosts of 50% (See link with timestamp: https://youtu.be/EG5n-e7wDOQ?t=410)
I'm really looking forward to see how this device will perform with Dolphin.

Let me know if it works my dude I would be excited to hear that it even opens a game.

50% of a shitty number is still a shitty number.

But anyways, have fun

(06-26-2019, 03:12 AM)Helios Wrote: [ -> ]50% of a shitty number is still a shitty number.

But anyways, have fun

So passive aggressive lol, for me it's fun to mess around with stuff just to do it even if it doesn't end up running well. Saying "dolphin is running on this credit card sized computer!" is just exciting within itself.

The problem is that this subforum has a habit of over hyping every single piece of shitty hardware ever and then we get dorks coming in wondering why it runs like shit.

(06-26-2019, 04:41 AM)Helios Wrote: [ -> ]The problem is that this subforum has a habit of over hyping every single piece of shitty hardware ever and then we get dorks coming in wondering why it runs like shit.

Hype can be fun the journey is as important as the destination

The GPU is more than likely 3-4x more powerful. The OpenArena benchmark is a particularly trustworthy test.

GFXBench shows Videocore V to have a 2.5x performance increase over Videocore IV.

https://gfxbench.com/compare.jsp?benchmark=gfx50&did1=35520176&os1=Android&api1=gl&hwtype1=GPU&hwname1=Broadcom+VideoCore+V+HW+%28V3D-520%29&did2=28352303&os2=Android&api2=gl&hwtype2=GPU&hwname2=Broadcom+VideoCore+V+HW+%28V3D-530%29&did4=24975581&os4=Android&api4=gl&hwtype4=GPU&hwname4=Broadcom+VideoCore+IV+HW+%28V3D-435%29

The Pi 4 is Videocore VI.

(06-26-2019, 04:41 AM)Helios Wrote: [ -> ]The problem is that this subforum has a habit of over hyping every single piece of shitty hardware ever and then we get dorks coming in wondering why it runs like shit.

When I read this post, I thought for sure this was the Android subforum. Spot-on description of what happens there as well.

For the RPi4, set low expectations. That way performance is either what you'd thought it'd be, or maybe a little better. I've seen stronger machines run Dolphin not so well.

(06-26-2019, 07:23 AM)myownfriend Wrote: [ -> ]The GPU is more than likely 3-4x more powerful. The OpenArena benchmark is a particularly trustworthy test.

GFXBench shows Videocore V to have a 2.5x performance increase over Videocore IV.

https://gfxbench.com/compare.jsp?benchmark=gfx50&did1=35520176&os1=Android&api1=gl&hwtype1=GPU&hwname1=Broadcom+VideoCore+V+HW+%28V3D-520%29&did2=28352303&os2=Android&api2=gl&hwtype2=GPU&hwname2=Broadcom+VideoCore+V+HW+%28V3D-530%29&did4=24975581&os4=Android&api4=gl&hwtype4=GPU&hwname4=Broadcom+VideoCore+IV+HW+%28V3D-435%29

The Pi 4 is Videocore VI.

Completely irrelevant when OpenGL ES support tops at 3.0, which is the bare minimum for Dolphin to even boot a game and that will perform badly since it lacks the additional extensions Dolphin needs to run faster...

(06-26-2019, 09:06 AM)mbc07 Wrote: [ -> ]Completely irrelevant when OpenGL ES support tops at 3.0, which is the bare minimum for Dolphin to even boot a game and that will perform badly since it lacks the additional extensions Dolphin needs to run faster...

Nobody said Dolphin wouldn't run (which was the case in previous Pis since they topped at OpenGL ES 2.0). It will run like trash, though, no matter how optimistic the synthetic benchmarks of Pi 4 might suggest...