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Dolphin - Emulating Wii and Gamecube Games
- Thread starter Stallion Free
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I'll try that build later. For now, it still looks amazing. I took a shot that I think is spoiler less. Amazing. And the game runs at a solid 30FPS at 1080p for me in all 3 modes. Looks like I'll be playing this game on Dolphin. Perhaps I'll even hook up my iMac to my HDTV.
Anyone with the same specs as mine can confirm acceptable framerates? I get 15-25fps.
Intel Q9300, stock clock 2.5GHz, 4 Cores
GT460 1GB Ram Gigabyte Superclocked.
8GB Ram
I get some glitches though. I will try thoraxes settings when I get home.
Those HD pics you guys posted makes me wanna buy a new pc to play Skyward Sword and Mario Galaxy in HD
edit:someone with the same cpu family of mine (q9400 etc)
Intel Q9300, stock clock 2.5GHz, 4 Cores
GT460 1GB Ram Gigabyte Superclocked.
8GB Ram
I get some glitches though. I will try thoraxes settings when I get home.
Those HD pics you guys posted makes me wanna buy a new pc to play Skyward Sword and Mario Galaxy in HD
edit:someone with the same cpu family of mine (q9400 etc)
MisterAnderson
Member
Okay so I've been putting off setting up Dolphin on my rig for a long time. I think I need to makes this happen for Skyward sword. I intend to read through the entire OP and see everything I need to do before I start asking for help, but before I do that can someone give me a rundown on what I should expect as far as how difficult/how long it would take to get it all set up and working?
Edit: Probably a stupid question, but the OP specifies "a dual core." I'm assuming that's minimum? I have an i7, I just want to make sure that it doesn't actually require a dual core and is for some reason not compatible with anything other than that.
Edit: Probably a stupid question, but the OP specifies "a dual core." I'm assuming that's minimum? I have an i7, I just want to make sure that it doesn't actually require a dual core and is for some reason not compatible with anything other than that.
ss_lemonade
Member
I can't even run the title screen at 30 fps when enabling AA (2500k + 6970 here, so I should be good in the hardware department). Only tried dx9 thoughCrunched said:
Dolphin is one of the easiest, most user-friendly emulators I have ever used. Shouldn't take long to set it up at all. For Skyward Sword though, you will need to hook up your Wiimote (with Motion+) to your PC via bluetooth. A (wireless) sensor bar is useful, but not required.MisterAnderson said:
And an i7 would mean that you'll have no problems running the game at fullspeed either.
Not too long if you peruse my settings for the game. I'm going to do updates on which builds work best when the full game releases, with working config shots too. So far, as a starting point, I would check out my settings that have been posted a few times int these last couple pages.MisterAnderson said:
As for your processor question, yeah, it's basically the minimum. More is always better, and if a process is only made to run on two cores, your other ones will be free anyways. You are more than fine with your i7.
I have an i7 920 and a 5870, and am getting full speed (need to fps limit to keep it down) with 8x AA.georaldc said:
Use Thoraxes' config.
That's at 4x internal res. Seriously it runs beyond perfectly.
The watercolor effect might look better at 8xAA and leaving the internal res set to window size. Haven't done side by side comparisons, but that's how it seems to me.
Actually this only seems to be true for Skyloft. Other areas definitely look better at higher internal res.
JLateralus
Member
whitehawk said:
Just curious - I'm going to try to run Dolphin on my iMac (high end 2011 21.5"). What are your settings and which build are you running?
Even at default settings you should be fine. I have the low end 2011 21.5" model. And I'm running the stable release of 3.0. Other newer version seems to crash too much for me. Also some of the newer version don't recognize controllers properly. For example the newest build won't recognize my Wii Motion+. And when playing sonic colours, it will think I'm using the classic controller, even though I'm not...JLateralus said:
I haven't changed too many settings. Just use Theoraxes settings.
ss_lemonade
Member
Will do, thanks for the tip. I was using 7671 earlier (later/newer builds run even worse), lets see if things improve with 7719Crunched said:
EDIT:
I see, so disabling efb to ram seems to do the trick. It now runs pretty much perfectly at dx11 4x res, 8xAA quality16 ^^
FormallyFamicom
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TheCongressman1
Member
jediyoshi said:
You make it sound as if Zelda leaves a bad taste. I think Mario and Zelda are delicious together.
Edit: Great shots, by the way.
Barrow Roll
Member
Nintendo must be stroking their beards, holding onto a Mario Galaxy HD collection for the WiiU knowing that it will print money. Good god.
I'm really sorry if the problem has been addressed already but, what if my computer (Q9400, 2,66ghz - 4gb ram - geforce 9500 GT, 512 mb) runs dolphin slowly, but without being able to have auto frameskip ?
It's like even if i lower the resolution and AA and such, it's always half the speed of the original game.
It's like even if i lower the resolution and AA and such, it's always half the speed of the original game.
nincompoop
Banned
If it's always exactly half speed then you probably have vsync enabled, so you can improve your framerate a bit by turning it off -- but your rig isn't powerful enough to run most games at full speed anyways.orioto said:
nincompoop
Banned
Oh my... I think I'm in love. With pictures of a video game. (Especially those first two.)
Holy shit those screens of SMG2 are beautiful!
I wonder how good Rayman Origins will look on Dolphin! For some obscure reasons I want the Wii version more since I always played the Rayman games on Nintendo's consoles, Rayman on GBA, Rayman 2 on N64 and Rayman 3 on GC. I tried the demo and it is DELICIOUS!
I wonder how good Rayman Origins will look on Dolphin! For some obscure reasons I want the Wii version more since I always played the Rayman games on Nintendo's consoles, Rayman on GBA, Rayman 2 on N64 and Rayman 3 on GC. I tried the demo and it is DELICIOUS!
Probably won't look very good since all the assets are 2D.Seik said:Holy shit those screens of SMG2 are beautiful!
I wonder how good Rayman Origins will look on Dolphin! For some obscure reasons I want the Wii version more since I always played the Rayman games on Nintendo's consoles, Rayman on GBA, Rayman 2 on N64 and Rayman 3 on GC. I tried the demo and it is DELICIOUS!
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Now those are "perfect graphics" if I ever saw them.
guitarhero
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snesfreak said:
Well, remember that a 400$ PC can also play...well, PC games. And emulate almost every console that came before the Wii. And it's also a PC, so you can do work on it.
nincompoop
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Not if you have vsync enabled, if your computer can't run it at full speed then the speed/framerate will be cut in half to prevent screen tearing.orioto said:
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ThatObviousUser
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Medalion said:
It's literally a Wii game with higher resolution. There is no doubt Nintendo can do at least that right off the bat. That's like saying Naughty Dog could only pull off Jak & Daxter-quality graphics for the PS3 at first.