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Does OS affect Performance? - deku_nut - 12-01-2009
Alright, so aside from the fact that i've struggled with getting Dolphin to run in OS X (which i'm still working on, if there is a sure-fire way to get it to let me know) I've dual booted my macbook pro to win7 and it runs dolphin quite well.
Having said that, it does get a little slow when there is a larger amount of activity onscreen (grass in wind waker).
My question is this: If i were to boot to winXP instead of win7 would this affect my performance? I noticed that the "fullscreen" mode isn't really a true change-the-resolution-and-encompass-the-whole-screen fullscreen mode, merely just a maximized window. I throttled down my "windows experience" to windows basic to avoid my gpu handling the transparency and such, i was just wondering if I benefited at all from going to XP, or win2000 even.
or is it worth it to try to get it to work natively in os x? (where i think OS-based graphic dependencies would be even more intense)
please advise,
specs:
Macbook Pro (late 2009) running snow leopard and win7
2.26GHZ intel C2D @ 1.07 Buss
2 GB ddr3
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256MB on 13" model
Latest build of Dolphin
RE: Does OS affect Performance? - krypking - 12-01-2009
i believe windows 7 has the best performance right now, since it takes full advantage of multicore processors, and ddr2 and ddr3 ram, whereas windows xp and below didnt, and vista was a resource hog. not sure about linux or macosx, but ubuntu may be the best performance among operating systems in general.
RE: Does OS affect Performance? - deku_nut - 12-01-2009
(12-01-2009, 04:58 AM)krypking Wrote: ...not sure about linux or macosx, but ubuntu may be the best performance among operating systems in general.
by this do you mean overall OS performance or performance with Dolphin? If that's the case i'll dual boot with ubuntu. Windows and i don't get along anymore.
RE: Does OS affect Performance? - krypking - 12-01-2009
overall performance, from my experience ubuntu wiped the mat with all other operating systems when it comes to speed and low resource use.