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Title: Do other (non-mame) Emulators take advantage of the Graphics Card?
Post by: Charles4400 on February 12, 2009, 04:59:06 pm

Do other non-mame Emulators take advantage of the Graphics Card?

Such as emulators for the Sega Model 2 or for Virtual Pinball etc?

I'm thinking of getting a new system to run mame + multiple other emulators and was wondering if getting a very good graphics card is worth it at all?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Do other (non-mame) Emulators take advantage of the Graphics Card?
Post by: TAG on February 12, 2009, 05:02:18 pm

I know the Model 2 emulator does.   For example, it has an option for meshed polygon translucency that requires a pixel shader 3 capable card.

Also, AAE (the vector game emulator) requires a pretty good card.

Title: Re: Do other (non-mame) Emulators take advantage of the Graphics Card?
Post by: Blanka on February 12, 2009, 05:43:35 pm

Many N64 emulators do. They scale the games to 1920x1200 or higher if requested. Only the textures look a bit rough then.
And of course, most emulators, including Mame use the GPU for upscaling, stretching, fake cushion distortions and tridot overlay-effects.