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I'm able to get 55% speed in NSMB on ONE of my Dual-core cores. I don't think he will be able to even get that much speed seeing how 1 of my 2.0GHz processors is better than his P4.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+II+Dual-Core+M300

Well it ranks about the same or slightly below P4 single core clocked at 3.4ghz, but above a pentium IV at 2.8ghz. There will probably not be much of a difference in performance. Maybe if he has a similar, adequate graphics card such as you, he could achieve playable framerates.

(03-25-2010, 11:50 PM)Ocean Wrote: [ -> ]Admin89 is right you can definitely run 2d games like Muramasa (which is a great game, btw) just fine even on a P4 given that you don't have some integrated graphics card.

Also on games like NSMB you'll be likely to get at least 70-80% speed with framelimit off. In general, avoid the full 3d games like twilight princess, mario galaxy, wii sports resort, because it will be unenjoyable at about 5-6fps. Lighter games and wiiware stuff will work fine most of the time though

Kinda wrong about that in TLP I get around 14 to 30 fps from what I played... as for SMG fps gets random 10 to 40 depending on areas with frame skip goes up to 17 and 40 I get less then 10 in GC games is kinda odd... But yea im making start short 30 sec videos now... on youtube *30 secs cuz I dont own fraps just the trial verson...*

(03-25-2010, 10:39 PM)TopGun1986 Wrote: [ -> ]I think it's quite common that you start off with a low end rig, at least that was the case for me until I decided at the end of the last year to finally buy a new one which took some time to save up for, before that I had an P4 3.0GHz machine from 2004, my first serious gaming rig.

But as time went on I wanted to play heavier stuff and was destined to upgrade sooner or later, PCSX2 and Dolphin is quite demanding and recently they are the top priorities on my machine, can't live without them.

And I can personally say that I got around 10-20 FPS on that P4 machine depending on certain aspects.

And buying a new computer isn't just anything you do in a minute, it takes some serious time for planning on what CPU, GPU, RAM etc. etc. to get depending on what games you want to play and what you will use it for.

So I don't think it's anything to laugh at, at all.

Well i don't think NaturalViolence meant to mock anyone, it could have just been a logistical "Wtf" running through his mind, as Pentium 4 is a painfully slow processor.
But I'm not here to speak for the guy, that was just my initial thought.

And dethykins dolphin is a Gc and wii emulator. With Pcsx2 running at 10 frames per second, you can expect to see the same performance in dolphin, if not a little better.

you can play dolphin with sound on a singlecore at nearly 50% speed? O_o

In a few games, not many.

(03-27-2010, 12:38 AM)FloW3184 Wrote: [ -> ]you can play dolphin with sound on a singlecore at nearly 50% speed? O_o

Depending on games... I tryed like 8 games... I get around 50% or more based off a game. Games like SMG for example fps goes quite random basicly around 10 to 40 fps... and Zelda TLP its like 15 to 30 from what I played and so on lol

Alright, so you guys claim its possible and adequate. Understood.
Where does this topic go from there? I don't' see whats left to discuss; maybe we should let this guy test and report back.
Assuming there are no more testimonies.

Quote:Well i don't think NaturalViolence meant to mock anyone, it could have just been a logistical "Wtf" running through his mind, as Pentium 4 is a painfully slow processor.

Yeah that about sums it up. What I was thinking when I saw the thread title was "oh jesus another thread from a noob who's going to ask I have a pentium 4 why is dolphin so slow?" so then I thought "this I gotta see!" because other people always have such hilarious responses to stuff like that. Turns out I was wrong though. Since the person who made this thread already knew that using a pentium 4 would make dolphin run slow, he just wanted to know HOW fast dolphin would run in certain games. To bad...I would have enjoyed another noob question thread.