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Title: Can Dolphin (wii emulator) run wii games with Haswell cpu ?
Post by: PTD on June 05, 2013, 02:14:44 pm

To cut down space in the bartop arcade build, I am planning to get the i5 Haswell cpu.  Will this cpu be able to handle wii games via Dolphin emulator without a dedicated graphic card ?

Title: Re: Can Dolphin (wii emulator) run wii games with Haswell cpu ?
Post by: Rigby on June 10, 2013, 12:44:34 pm

That isn't really an arcade question.  Not a lot of us are going to have the experience to answer your question fully.

Haswell is proving to be a bit of a disappointment, but it might suffice for Wii stuff.  To be honest, I don't know, but neither result would surprise me.  If you ask on a Wii emulation board somewhere you'd likely have better responses than mine.

Title: Re: Can Dolphin (wii emulator) run wii games with Haswell cpu ?
Post by: Howard_Casto on June 10, 2013, 01:57:54 pm

I don't think you are going to find any consumer level processor that'll run dolphin without a dedicated video card. 

All the processing power goes to emulation, and then you still need to render the 3d. 

The only reason you can get away with running mame without a video card is because mame does most stuff in software anyway... it's more accurate but it's also why it's so slow.