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[Louminater]

Sorry for the bump, but I was about to purchase an ati HD5770 to improve my performance on this emulator but wanted to know if my current card was holding it back or my CPU. I have a Core2Duo E7200 (2.53 GHz originally) overclocked to 3.2 Ghz. My current card is a Geforce 7900GS.

So will upgrading the graphics card give me a huge boost in FPS, or is the CPU the issue? Or both?

I currently get 30 FPS max on most games (average is lower), makes most of them unplayable.

 

[Why would you do that?]

Sorry for the bump, but I was about to purchase an ati HD5770 to improve my performance on this emulator but wanted to know if my current card was holding it back or my CPU. I have a Core2Duo E7200 (2.53 GHz originally) overclocked to 3.2 Ghz. My current card is a Geforce 7900GS.

So will upgrading the graphics card give me a huge boost in FPS, or is the CPU the issue? Or both?

Try playing some games while looking at your processor usage. For me, with a dual core Athlon 2.7 GHz and a Geforce 9800 GTX+ video card, it's mostly the CPU holding back the emulation.

I'm not sure, but I'd imagine that it also depends on what game you're playing.

 

[Firestorm]

Q9550 @ 3.4 GHz + GTX 275
Native Resolution: 1360x768

Should I be using 2xSS or some form of MSAA for the best image / framerate balance?

 

[Louminater]

Try playing some games while looking at your processor usage. For me, with a dual core Athlon 2.7 GHz and a Geforce 9800 GTX+ video card, it's mostly the CPU holding back the emulation.

I'm not sure, but I'd imagine that it also depends on what game you're playing.

Yeah the CPU is being used 100% ... I just thought that if I was using a 1gb graphics card, it would take some of the load off of the CPU... I guess not?

Edit: Also, I don't even turn on the damn HD mode and the FPS is already crappy. I've tried SMG, NSMB Wii, and a few Gamecube games... The only one thats playable at 30FPS is Twilight Princess (GCN version) for me

 

[EvilMario]

NSMB Wii runs fabulously for me at 1440x900. I unchecked Enable Audio Throttle as recommended, which had moderate improvements, and I forced it to run 60FPS as well. Menus indeed blow through at 60FPS, and gameplay goes between 28-34FPS. With 8xMSAA, 8x Anisotropic Filtering it dips down into the 24-28FPS range. It's definitely playable though, either way.

Animal Crossing, works, but on a later revision. There are some graphical blips, but the game seems to run flawlessly.

We own a ton of Wii games, so we're definitely going to try them all!

System here is:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.20GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
4GB RAM
Windows 7 (64-bit)

And screens:

 

[Durante]

So, after 3 years or so F-Zero GX is now finally playable in Dolphin. The only remaining problem I could find is that some shadows are corrupted sometimes.

 

[.:Wesker:.]

So, after 3 years or so F-Zero GX is now finally playable in Dolphin. The only remaining problem I could find is that some shadows are corrupted sometimes.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

BRB F-ZERO GX'ING

 

[darkwings]

holy shit, FZERO!

 

[confused]

WOOOOOOOOT

F Zero GX, finally

 

[bee]

very nice indeed, runs about 50fps average for me so not too far off full speed

 

[Nemo]

No way. Need HD screens stat!!

 

[Diablohead]

Yeah someone needs to grab some F-zero GX screens in at least 4xAA in a massive resolution.

Just from those smaller images alone the game still looks fucking amazing.

 

[kenji]

has anyone tried final fantasy crystal bearers in 720p or more?

 

[ector]

Shamelessly stealing shuffle2's pictures:

Have fun. All thanks to skidau's amazing coding work.

Btw, hint: F-Zero has a built-in widescreen mode. Use that and set Dolphin to force widescreen.

 

[Kenka]

So, after 3 years or so F-Zero GX is now finally playable in Dolphin. The only remaining problem I could find is that some shadows are corrupted sometimes.

Fu
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Ye
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Fuck Yeah.

 

[Kenka]

Shamelessly stealing shuffle2's pictures:

Double post and *_____*"

 

[ector]

Double post and

Yeah, pretty much.

 

[ector]

shuffle2's widescreen shots:

Damn. I need to speed this damn thing up, 20-40 fps, which I get on my machine, just doesn't cut it.

 

[Why would you do that?]

What luck. My friend's borrowing my F-Zero GX. I've been meaning to get it back from him for a while. I miss that game... :'(

I'm glad to see that it works now, though.

 

[darkpaladinmfc]

We'll never get F-Zero Wii :'(.

 

[fly high ~ayunite~]

Okay NOW I'm ready to jump in :lol: F-Zero time

Will my PC be able to emulate GC/Wii?
Intel Core2 Quad Q8300 2.50GHz
6gb ram
ATI Radeon HD 4350

 

[ector]

Okay NOW I'm ready to jump in :lol: F-Zero time

Will my PC be able to emulate GC/Wii?
Intel Core2 Quad Q8300 2.50GHz
6gb ram
ATI Radeon HD 4350

Sure, it'll be playable and beautiful. You're not gonna get full speed on all tracks though - I don't think anyone can.

 

[darkwings]

Okay NOW I'm ready to jump in :lol: F-Zero time

Will my PC be able to emulate GC/Wii?
Intel Core2 Quad Q8300 2.50GHz
6gb ram
ATI Radeon HD 4350

well you dont gain anything by running a quad core. CPU speed are what matters and 2.5ghz is on the slow side.

 

[MNC]

Shiieeet I just bought this game for the wii and it's awesome Good to see it finally works! This game would look BEAUTIFUL in motion! Any videos of it yet?

 

[zbarron]

What build of Dolphin are you using to run F-Zero and where can I download it?

 

[bee]

What build of Dolphin are you using to run F-Zero and where can I download it?

http://dolphin-emulator.com/

only jitil version works for me, normal crashes with an error

 

[Firestorm]

Double post and

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8430/shiiiit.gif

both that gif and hotlinking to imageshack (frog) are bannable.

 

[Piano]

Holy crap, F-Zero looks incredible

 

[abstract alien]

Good lord F-Zero is crisp

 

[Kenka]

both that gif and hotlinking to imageshack (frog) are bannable.

So sorry, thing removed.

But please, could you tell me why this .gif is banned ? Thank you.

 

[Nuclear Muffin]

Man, F-Zero GX just looks stunning!

 

[Durante]

Normally I'd be the first to post high-res crazy AA images, but for F-Zero stable 60 FPS are more important so I'm playing at only 720p 2xAA currently.

But please, could you tell me why this .gif is banned ? Thank you.

Probably the same reason anything is banned: It annoys some mod.

 

[Durante]

Some more screenshots at 720p 4xAA 16xAF: (Sadly only ~45 FPS average)

It's a thing of beauty.

 

[DeathbyVolcano]

golfham

 

[boiled goose]

I want Fzero online to be the launch title for nintendo's next system...

Please

 

[epmode]

Oh man I wish my system could run F-Zero at 60 FPS. That shit is stunning.

I miss The Real Sega.

 

[NotWii]

YES! FIANLLY!

 

[neo2046]

:O at F-Zero

 

[Medalion]

Pretty neat about F-Zero GX in HD
The polygons looks great...but the slightly lower-res faded textures of the text and graphical bars still need work.

 

[RavenFox]

http://dolphin-emulator.com/

only jitil version works for me, normal crashes with an error

Will run on win 7 64bit no problemo right?

 

[blame space]

I want to go to there.

 

[udivision]

I want to go to there.

:lol Me too.

 

[Sectus]

If the backgrounds were re-rendered in high resolution, REmake would be a perfect fit for current gen consoles.

 

[bee]

ok, game runs practically flawless @ 1680x1050, 4xaa, 16xaf with nvidia 3D vision!!!( aside from framerates of 30-45) there are no pop out effects but the increased depth is very nice indeed and it actually works a lot better in 3D than a lot of pc games. took some 3D screens but you need the glasses to view them

http://www.mediafire.com/?nzcnomujkmt

Will run on win 7 64bit no problemo right?

thats what i'm running it on

 

[Brashnir]

New version (r4850) seems to fix the lighting problem on some NSMBW models in D3D mode. Everything is perfect now, and runs at an almost-perfect 60fps for me in 1080p. Sweet.

Now I just need to finish off the stuff I'm already playing so I can actually dig into it.

 

[Fox the Sly]

Apparently only a JIT version of the emu works for F-Zero, but I don't see any recent JIT (x64) builds.

 

[slidewinder]

Wowwwwwwwwww @ F-Zero!

 

[Durante]

New version (r4850) seems to fix the lighting problem on some NSMBW models in D3D mode. Everything is perfect now, and runs at an almost-perfect 60fps for me in 1080p. Sweet.

More recently the problem where some of the post-processing effects (eg. the heat haze in World 2) were rendered to the wrong rendertarget was also fixed. Really, the only remaining thing seem to be the spinning coins.

Apparently only a JIT version of the emu works for F-Zero, but I don't see any recent JIT (x64) builds.

I think you mean IL instead of JIT? Anyway, they are available here for example.

 

[Fox the Sly]

More recently the problem where some of the post-processing effects (eg. the heat haze in World 2) were rendered to the wrong rendertarget was also fixed. Really, the only remaining thing seem to be the spinning coins.

I think you mean IL instead of JIT? Anyway, they are available here for example.

Thanks for the link. I read "JIT" somewhere lol. Finally got past the memory card screen now.

 

[selig]

im sure it has been asked before, but: would it be possible for some hypothetical "Wii HD" to upscale Wii and GameCube-games into what´s seen in this thead? Especially F-Zero GX looks perfectly fine and really wouldnt need a sequel, haha.