whats the requirements

[Kane]

It's 'ported', not 'ploted'
This is, as I said before, due to the PS2's architecture. Many developers are too lazy to make good use of the architecture.

[Player-X]

I guess the question you guys are gonna eventuaily ask is:how many % PC is an XboX compared to a PS2

Am I right?

[Kane]

To which the simple answer is that an X-Box is basicaly an x86 PC in a box, and hte PS2 is vastly different. Doing a percentage would be impossible tho.

[paulsy]

what dose x86 stand for

[Kane]

Originally Posted by paulsy

what dose x86 stand for

x86 is the architecture IBM PCs use. Comes from the days of 1-486 machines. The copyright to 586 was bought by someone or other, and thus we got hte first Pentium class machines. AMD, not wanting to pay license fees for such a name produced the K6 series chips.

[haaris_abbasi]

Yep.. but as for the PS2 not utilizing the full power of its system, it will never acheive the full use of the system's resources. This is because of the flawed design of the PS2. I actually talked to a person who designed part of the emotion engine, and he said that the Emotion Engine is very powerful, but the actual system cpu is not powerful enough to utilize the power of the EE. In essence, if they were to correct the flaws of the system(such as lack of vRAM[they could keep uploading to main system RAM, but they run out of resources for some of the other processes], and the lower clocked CPU to a faster clocked CPU) and keep the EE, they could have a PS3.

[TerrorShocked]

Here are some general tips about the requirements. The better video card you have, the better it will run. It is not so CPU based so you could probably get away with using a lower end CPU. The main thing though is having a decent video card and perhaps having a good ammount of RAM.

[Kane]

Originally Posted by haaris_abbasi

Yep.. but as for the PS2 not utilizing the full power of its system, it will never acheive the full use of the system's resources. This is because of the flawed design of the PS2. I actually talked to a person who designed part of the emotion engine, and he said that the Emotion Engine is very powerful, but the actual system cpu is not powerful enough to utilize the power of the EE. In essence, if they were to correct the flaws of the system(such as lack of vRAM[they could keep uploading to main system RAM, but they run out of resources for some of the other processes], and the lower clocked CPU to a faster clocked CPU) and keep the EE, they could have a PS3.

The weakness of the PS2 is the lack of a decent amount of vRam/Texture compression. However, this problem only really affects the ability to use 2048x2048 textures with FSAA. The CPU is not it's weakness. They designed the system as a parallel processing machine and as such, the CPU combined with the two vertex units is more than capable.
It's weak developers who can't be arsed to learn about hte system itself who would claim that its CPU is weak.

Correcting flaws won't create a PS3. That's like saying that adding more vRam and a CD drive to the N64 would give you a machine to compete against the PS2 and X-Box, as we all know that the major flaws of the N64 are in it's poor storage capacity and low resoloution textures, right?

[bitrider]

-- Posted by haaris_abbasi - June 30th, 2003 at 22:29 ----------------
Yep.. but as for the PS2 not utilizing the full power of its system, it will never acheive the full use of the system's resources. This is because of the flawed design of the PS2. I actually talked to a person who designed part of the emotion engine, and he said that the Emotion Engine is very powerful, but the actual system cpu is not powerful enough to utilize the power of the EE. In essence, if they were to correct the flaws of the system(such as lack of vRAM[they could keep uploading to main system RAM, but they run out of resources for some of the other processes], and the lower clocked CPU to a faster clocked CPU) and keep the EE, they could have a PS3.
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As long as I know CPU stand for Central Processing Unit, that's the main processor.

You wrote the main problem is that the main cpu is not powerful enough to use the EE (Emotion Engine). How the hell could it be, the main processor is not enough powerful to use itself.

Let's see, the main processor in PS2 is the Emotion Engine a modified MIPS 5900.

[PentiumPro]

Getting back to the actual topic guys, think about this.It's true that the Xbox has a 700mhz cpu, but, the xbox also isnt running anything else, like windows.your pc has to run other stuff at the same time, as the xbox pretty much does not.It has no os to run.at least, not at the same time as the game.So, I think you guys will have to compensate for the slowdown your os creates which shouldnt be too much.I think a 1.5ghz aughta do it.

[Razor Blade]

Maybe. We wont know true specs as I said in other threads until we start seeing some actual in game footage. Not menus but in game!

[Exophase]

Originally Posted by Computertrendy

Getting back to the actual topic guys, think about this.It's true that the Xbox has a 700mhz cpu, but, the xbox also isnt running anything else, like windows.your pc has to run other stuff at the same time, as the xbox pretty much does not.It has no os to run.at least, not at the same time as the game.So, I think you guys will have to compensate for the slowdown your os creates which shouldnt be too much.I think a 1.5ghz aughta do it.

Enh, XBox has an OS too and when running an emu we shouldn't have to be running other apps that take up any more than 1 or 2% of the CPU time, not 50%.

- Exo