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Old September 23rd, 2005   #17 (permalink)
Leviathan
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Originally Posted by ChankastRules
Yes it's probably easier to emulate because like I said above it uses a modified version of DirectX 8.1 but fact remains that's it much more powerful than the PS2
So what? And the PC is much more powerful than both of them.
The interesting thing is the amount of overhead emulation creates, and that should be far less for xbox-emulation than for ps2-emulation (or every other emulator).

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Originally Posted by ChankastRules
1. Turok isn't exactly the most impressing game on the xbox and I doubt it uses the xbox resources to the fullest.
True, but still, xbox-games in an emulator would always run a lot faster than ps2-games for example.

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Originally Posted by ChankastRules
2. The author has probably focused to make this single game as fast as possible.
He focused on this game to make it run at all, because as far as I know, it was the first game caustik was able to test with. That doesn't mean the emulator does any special optimizations for it.
Actually, I had a quick look at the emulator sourcecode. Obviously, its to complicated to understand in only a few minutes, but as far as I can tell, the only game where special actions are taken is Halo.

@Master Chief: Screw Halo 2! Gimme DoA 3 or Ultimate and I'll be happy.
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