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| Felsir:
I'm working on the BYOAC Wiki (together with PL1), a lot of work went into compiling the FAQ. On of the questions that pops up a lot on the forum is "will my PC run emulator X or Game Y?" so I think that question warrants a topic in the FAQ. So I was thinking, how can we give that kind of information? So I came up with this idea: Emulation vs CPU chart. The idea is, if we collect some data points of CPUs people have and what they can run, one might be able to plot out their own system in the chart. For example, my cab has an Intel i3 3220 and it manages to run PS2 emulation quite well. I think it's the toughest I've thrown at my system so far. So I'm looking for data points: what system do you have and what is the "heaviest" game/emulator you can run? I've added a rating with 1 being trivial to run and 31 being the hardest emulated game (it might be an idea to have a separate scale for MAME games). Note that it is a relative scale, so my initial ranking of the PS2 emulation is not set in stone. If you have a suggestion of how to display this information differently, feel free to comment! |
| BadMouth:
I tried something similar once upon a time: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130988.msg1342049.html#msg1342049 Emulators other than MAME, especially Demul rely heavily on the GPU. |
| BadMouth:
All my current systems are running 3.4Ghz Athlon X3 with 9800GT video cards and 64-bit OS. They can run Gamecube on Dolphin and Dreamcast on NullDC. I've never tried Dreamcast on Demul, but the arcade games are hit or miss. The 3D shooters have slowdown and sound skips when there are a lot of enemies, so I'm running those in Makaron. Chankast is older and probably has lower required specs. I haven't tried a PS2 emulator, but I've read that the 2D games aren't that demanding and the 3D games are very demanding. For the sake of preventing things from getting muddy, I'd pick the most popular emulator for each system and only use that as a reference. |
| paigeoliver:
Different emulators and different versions of the same emulator can have vastly different hardware requirements without any noticeable difference to the end user. |
| Haze:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on January 14, 2014, 08:49:34 pm ---Different emulators and different versions of the same emulator can have vastly different hardware requirements without any noticeable difference to the end user. --- End quote --- Until the game blows up on the last boss or something, due to a bug that was fixed years ago... this is very true of the emulators that have developed rapidly and are for complex systems, or where protection is involved, the more mature but slower versions or newer emulators tend to be a lot more dependable in the long run. if of course all you want is to be able to boast a huge game list and wow people with the first couple of levels of a game, that's not sometihng you should need to consider, but if anybody dare tell me that the last levels of Fighters History are broken (for example) they will get a very evil stare. :-) |
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