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fast enough? - jinx23 - 02-13-2010
I've been considering upgrading the video card but I'm not sure. There's a few other games I play that I come pretty close to being able to max out, but not quite, but I figured it wasn't better to wait a bit before upgrading the video card. I just downloaded Dolphin and was reconsidering whether I should wait. I've been playing Mario Kart Wii and I can run the game consistently at about 80-95%, and it seems that while turning off antialiasing and other things helps a bit, with everything maxed out I'm still at about 70-80%. It seems that things like turning off progressive scan, choosing "copy EFB to GL texture (hack)" are the things that matter most. So is this basically the best dolphin can do at the moment, or could bumping up the video card get it to 100%?
Here's what I have:
Windows 7 premium 32 bit
4gb ddr2 ram
Velociraptor hard drive
AMD Phenom x4 (quad core) 810 processor 2.6ghz
sapphire radeon HD4850 512mb
The emulator itself is on the velociraptor drive, but the iso is on another drive due to space considerations. Could that be affecting it as well? Or is my problem software limitations, not hardware limitations?
RE: fast enough? - FloW3184 - 02-13-2010
one of the software limitations you have is the windows 7 32bit.
you need the 64 bit for better speed. (should be enough for about fullspeed in mariokart i think)
your video card is more than enough to play dolphin at fullspeed.
you can have the isos even on a very slow usb 1.1 hdd...
it won't affect the emulation speed.
only the loading times.
RE: fast enough? - jinx23 - 02-13-2010
Would linux 64 bit work, or am I basically out of luck then without windows 64?