Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Hi All, new to Dolphin but not new to emulators. Recently bought an ACEPC AK1 from Amazon and although it emulated most consoles well via LaunchBox (Celeron J3455, 1.6GHz), it obviously couldn't handle Dolphin or even Mednafen so I'm now in the market for something that can!.
I want to be able to play Rogue Squadron, Bounty Hunter and 007 games on Game Cube and then Mario games and the likes on Wii.

I've been looking around the forum as well as the web and the more I look the more confused I get! Blush

.I want to keep it neat and discrete for a living room so want a prebuilt small form factor PC that just plugs into a TV via HDMI.

So my question is what specs would you recommend for near-flawless Dolphin gaming with a budget of around €500-600?. I was considering the below options but I'm not sure if either would be good enough so maybe I need to review my budget? - also some people on the forum are saying Ryzen over Intel then others are saying the opposite Huh

I'd be happy to play in 720p with 1080p a bonus. I also want to stick with Windows.
Would be grateful if people could steer me in the right direction or if they had better ideas!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Windows-i7-7820...to_dp&th=1

OR

https://www.pcspecialist.ie/computers/amd-pn50-4700u/

OR

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Well, forget Rogue Squadron, it is one of the hardest games to emulate in Dolphin and it requires a system that far exceeds Dolphin's minimum requirements to maintain constant speed. The other games you mentioned should work perfectly fine on any of the two mini PCs you linked, though...

(11-13-2021, 06:12 AM)mbc07 Wrote: [ -> ]Well, forget Rogue Squadron, it is one of the hardest games to emulate in Dolphin and it requires a system that far exceeds Dolphin's minimum requirements to maintain constant speed. The other games you mentioned should work perfectly fine on any of the two mini PCs you linked, though...

Thanks a mill!. And if I was to review my budget and go after something that could handle Rogue Squadron (big Star Wars fan!), would you have any recommendations as to what I'd need?

I may be slightly late to this thread...

For specifically a pre-built, on that pcspecialist.ie site, select "Performance Mini PCs" and then set the processor to "AMD Ryzen 5 5600G".

The following image (click for full size) is a baseline of what I came up with. If you want to improve performance, then instead select the cheapest RAM (1x4GB) and then buy your own 2x kit of DDR4 with a speed of at least 2933 (2x RAM sticks will outperform 1x RAM stick, especially for integrated graphics).

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And I know you said it must be a prebuilt, but what about a "half" pre-built that kind of more of a DIY kit? It would be even smaller sized with comparable or better performance while only costing €521 for the example baseline config that I provide.

DIY kit info-dump - not a spoiler:

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(11-13-2021, 06:12 AM)mbc07 Wrote: [ -> ]Well, forget Rogue Squadron, it is one of the hardest games to emulate in Dolphin and it requires a system that far exceeds Dolphin's minimum requirements to maintain constant speed.

...isn't anything with single-threaded CPU grunt faster than Haswell more than enough? (so therefore Broadwell, Skylake and its derivatives, Rocket Lake, Alder Lake, Zen2, Zen3, half-L3 Zen3, and maybe quarter-L3 Zen2)

Or has Rogue Squadron gotten even more demanding in Dolphin to the point that only Alder Lake-levels of single-threaded performance will cut it at this time?

Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

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