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Veikkojuhani

Hi!
I have a iMac mid-2011 with a i5 2400s, Radeon HD 6750M with 512MB of vram and 8 gb of ram. My iMac haves a 1080p screen. Can I run Twilight Princess (WII) and windwaker (GC) smoothly?

Thanks!

P.S. More specs about my iMac at: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/...specs.html (I have upgraded the ram from 4gb to 8gb)
Not on MacOS due to GPU driver limitations. MoltenVK is fairly broken on Dolphin too last I checked.

You'll have reasonable performance if you dual boot either Windows or Linux to have access to better GPU drivers. If you don't want to do that, don't expect reliable performance.

EDIT: Not even sure if we support anything older than the latest MacOS. Relevant because you can't run 10.14 Mojave.
(07-21-2019, 09:23 PM)Helios Wrote: [ -> ]EDIT: Not even sure if we support anything older than the latest MacOS. Relevant because you can't run 10.14 Mojave.

High Sierra should work, except when it comes to MoltenVK.

Veikkojuhani

(07-21-2019, 09:23 PM)Helios Wrote: [ -> ]EDIT: Not even sure if we support anything older than the latest MacOS. Relevant because you can't run 10.14 Mojave.

On my older iMac (2008) I installed dolphin on el capitan but twilight princess (WII) was 2-12 fps.

Veikkojuhani

(07-21-2019, 09:23 PM)Helios Wrote: [ -> ]You'll have reasonable performance if you dual boot either Windows or Linux to have access to better GPU drivers. If you don't want to do that, don't expect reliable performance.

I have a windows 7 pro x64 disk. Can I install windows with it on a usb stick (16gb).
No. You need to install it on the hard drive of your mac.
16 GB is not enough for Windows 7 X64, anyway... so add another "no" there.

https://support.microsoft.com/sw-ke/help...quirements
(07-23-2019, 04:04 AM)DJBarry004 Wrote: [ -> ]16 GB is not enough for Windows 7 X64, anyway... so add another "no" there.

https://support.microsoft.com/sw-ke/help...quirements

It only takes 4GB to put the *installer* on a flash drive or am I misunderstanding something?
(07-23-2019, 04:47 AM)bomblord Wrote: [ -> ]It only takes 4GB to put the *installer* on a flash drive or am I misunderstanding something?

You can put the installer on the flash drive, but you can't install Windows to the flash drive.
A Radeon HD 6750M doesn't support metal anyway, so MoltenVK (broken or not) isn't an option.
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