Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Quote:Are we taking GPUs into account? I see you didn't mention them. Personally I would say just leave them out, as it hardly ever is a bottleneck in Dolphin.

Third sentence of my original post

Quote: the benchmarking will revolve around the cpu specifically since it is almost always the bottleneck in dolphin

Quote:I'm running Windows 7 x64 on the first one, W7 x86 on the other one, but I'm willing to install a different OS beside the primary one if necessary.

Unnessecary since 32 bit dolphin runs in a 64 bit OS.

Quote:As for which game to use for the benchmark: why not use several? Zelda TP Wii demands ridiculous muscle for Hyrule field, Metroid Prime is a bitch in some areas, F Zero GX isn't all fun and games on some more mainstream systems... let's just pick a few and choose a specific point in the game for the benchmark.

We won't use several because whatever game/games we choose everyone will have to have. The more games we use the less people can participate. And remember that we want to choose a game that is basically impossible to run at fullspeed at some point near the beginning. Metroid prime seems like the best candidate in my opinion but I still want to put it to a vote.

I want everyone who is participating to have at least 2GB of ram as having less than that seems to dramatically impact performance.

I now want everyone from here on out to post not only their cpu models for all the systems they can use but a list of games they can use as well. People who have already posted should post their games as well. After a week or so we should have enough people to get started so I will put up a poll with the 10 most popular games and we will all vote on one.

Be sure to check my original post every once and awhile since I will constantly be adding new details to it.

Once we have enough people I'll set up an irc channel just for this group in order to help better organize things.

Literally any wii game, and about 20% of gc games. I got legal dumps on ftp which are also used by a few other people. (But it's just for people known IRL who buy games/imports). I started a project of listing them all on dolphin-emu.com as you can see in my profile but it got very tiresome uploading config and gameplay screens for every single topic, so taking a break.

Good idea about the top 10 vote.

I can help =)
I have no overclocking experience, so unfortunately I'll have to sit that part out however...

AMD Phenom II X2 550 BE @ 3.1ghz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ @ 2.1ghz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800 @ 2.5ghz

I can run whatever OS needed on 'em for you guys as well =)

I own most major Nintendo games:

• Metroid Prime 1 and 2 for the Gamecube (PAL), Triology for Wii
• Melee and Brawl (Pal)
• Both Zelda's for the Gamecube (NTSC) and Twighlight Princess for Wii (PAL)
• Mario Sunshine, Galaxy, Kart and NSMBWii (Pal)
• Tales of Symphonia for Gamecube (Pal) and Dawn of a new World for Wii (NTSC)
• Every Resident Evil game released on GameCube and Wii
  

I forgot all about my laptop, which has an AMD Turion X2 Tyler core at 1.8 Ghz with 2 gb of ram running Vista 32bit. Should be fun testing that against a t5500/t5600. Will put up a CPUZ vallidation shortly of it.

Here are my processor configs:

Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T5200 @ 1.60GHz 1.60GHz

Instructions:MMX,SSE(1,2,3S),EM64T

Supports 32 and 64 Bits.

Does I can help?I play Okami,Zelda Wind Waker,Zelda Twilight Princess(GC) and Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+, 3050 MHz, 2 core('s), 2 logische processor(s)

:p. Maybe I can help .

phenom 2 x4 965 3.4 oc 3.8
kinstong hyper x 1066 4 g ddr2
asus engtx 260 896 megs top
m4a78pro
sond blaster xfire not onboard i got but dont use
power supplies 700 watts

amd 965 ias the top amd right now if you have a test to do i think my pc is a good tester

I'll see if I have time to test. Specs and games in the pics, more specs in my sig.

Specs in the signature

we have to choose a game in common , I think

My specs are in my sig as well.