Will the emulator run fast on my computer?

[dashboardy]

last 2 are the same processor, both merom core, just different socket

so you're saying that although the platform has changed generations (from Napa to santa rosa, the chips (Merom M to Merom P) are considered the same generation?? verrrry interesting...

hey looka that - got my first star!

[ian209]

Will a quad core make any difference to my current setup?
(Intel C2D Q6600)

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[Desaigy]

I am aware that this is a horrible first post:
I've been looking around and I haven't found anything mentioned about Nvida quadro fx 4000 mentioned. it seems like when I see Nvida spoken, it is with "geforce" attached to it. I just got a quadro-fx 4000 as a late christmas present and was wondering how that would fair on pcsx2.
again, I apologize for this first post.

[shafeen]

hi desaigy there would be some quadro users here u can go and search the threads for them
or you could test a game urself and post it here refraction would add it

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[hajime]

Hi friends.
I have been trying Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution.
I have a laptop (yes, I know laptops aren't recommended usually) which has Core Duo, and the graphic card is an Intel integrated one of 128 MB.
The good thing is that the video card seems to support many things, since I can see all polygons.
The bad thing is that it only runs at 5 fps, or 10fps at some moments.

Do you think that upgrading the video card to one of the last nVidia, for example, will improve the fps rate, or being a laptop it is probable that it doesn't get much better?

Thanks

[Clements]

Originally Posted by Desaigy

I am aware that this is a horrible first post:
I've been looking around and I haven't found anything mentioned about Nvida quadro fx 4000 mentioned. it seems like when I see Nvida spoken, it is with "geforce" attached to it. I just got a quadro-fx 4000 as a late christmas present and was wondering how that would fair on pcsx2.
again, I apologize for this first post.

The Quadro FX 4000 is roughly analogous to the 6800GT desktop card, so should work fine as long as you are using the right drivers etc.

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[dashboardy]

Do you think that upgrading the video card to one of the last nVidia, for example, will improve the fps rate, or being a laptop it is probable that it doesn't get much better?

What kind of laptop do you own? It is rarely possible to upgrade a laptop video card - it's not like swapping pci-e or agp boards in a desktop. There are laptops that you can do this on. One example is a Dell Inspiron 9400. It can be configured with GMA (intel integrated), Radeon mob x1400, or Geforce 7900GS. IF you have the inspiron 9400 with Radeon x1400 (a low - mid end card) you can purchase a GeForce 7900Gs and swap it for the Radeon X1400. However, if you own a 9400 with intel GMA, you can't swap it. So although it likely would improve speed (in pcsx2 and other games) it is also likely that it is not possible.

If it is possible, your options will be limited to one or possibly two cards.

[jusTiC3]

Originally Posted by refraction

can you confirm if it works with software mode on GSDX9?

post updated ^^

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[Barius]

All,

Please stop using this thread to ask questions about whether you need to upgrade or not. The point of this post is to show what hardware *does* work, it is not a place for you to ask questions about *if* it will work. Please ask your questions in your own thread. If everyone asks questions here then it will be much harder for others to find the information they are looking for.

You should only post here if you have some useful information to add to the list.
/rant

[Totenkopf]

Just got a brand new HP Compaq NC6400 (Intel® Core™ Duo processor T2600 2.16 GHz 2 MB L2 cache 667 MHz front side bus, 2 GB (667 MHz) DDR2 SDRAM, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with up to 224 MB shared system memory) from work and tried on Super Dragonball Z - plays only a bit slower (~10-15 fps) than my current desktop (Athlon64 3000 @ 2.3Ghz, 1Gb Geil Ultra DDR400 2-3-3-6-1T @ 2.5-6-10-11-1T, Geforce 6800 NU @ 390/815), which manages to churn out 17-25fps on that and 20-70fps in FFX. Will post back with the laptop's FFX results soon and hopefully in less than a month on the new desktop (watercooled, eVGA 8800GTX superclocked, corsair dominator's, stuff like that )

[refraction]

Originally Posted by jusTiC3

post updated ^^

cool updated mine too, to wont work ;p i think thats fair dont you?

Originally Posted by Barius

All,

Please stop using this thread to ask questions about whether you need to upgrade or not. The point of this post is to show what hardware *does* work, it is not a place for you to ask questions about *if* it will work. Please ask your questions in your own thread. If everyone asks questions here then it will be much harder for others to find the information they are looking for.

You should only post here if you have some useful information to add to the list.
/rant

yes Quatro users should do one of the following

A. try it for themselves then report the results
or
B. Look at the Geforce equivilant.

9/10 cases (if not all 10) the Geforce card is basically a Crippled Quatro.

for example the Geforce 1 was a Quatro, Geforce 2 was a Quatro 2. with a bit of knowhow and a soldering iron, you can turn your Geforce into a fully working Quatro card.

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Last edited by refraction; January 27th, 2007 at 13:41.. Reason: whoops, its not a Quatro into Quatro, thats just silly ;p

[StriderVM]

Would it be better to seperate the old Celeron to Celeron D? I mean the old Celeron have a chance to have problem since the older models don't have SSE2, while even the earliest Celeron D does have support for SSE2....

And yeah, I tested the Celeron D, much slower, but works without a hitch.....

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[KyuubiWarrior]

Put single core AMD FXs and the high end opterons under the highest catagory because those are definitely faster than the slower X2s. Also, the slower laptop Core Duos will not run it reasonably.

Just look at the bechmark YOU linked to. A single core AMD at 2.8 is even faster than a dual core at 2.2 in most games.

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[GodOfThunder]

I can confirm that Athlon XP 2400+ combined with an IGP 320M (Radeon 7000/Radeon VE) works with Gsdx9 and fixed pipeline in most games. When I tested with Dynasty Warriors 5 XL I had to use software mode.

[Luptatorul]

i think it should be added that 2 gb of ram really help a lot the stability of the pcsx2 vm version. I had crushes with 1 gb ram out of nowhere on virtua fighter 4, right now i got only get them on one arena, and summer heat beach volleyball when reached ingame always crushed , now i can play a few rounds even if the controls are totally messed up.

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[refraction]

Originally Posted by KyuubiWarrior

Put single core AMD FXs and the high end opterons under the highest catagory because those are definitely faster than the slower X2s. Also, the slower laptop Core Duos will not run it reasonably.

Just look at the bechmark YOU linked to. A single core AMD at 2.8 is even faster than a dual core at 2.2 in most games.

that is an overclocked Opteron, im going of STANDARD clocks, whcih the Opteron would perform nicely but not quicker than X2's or FX dual cores

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[KyuubiWarrior]

Originally Posted by refraction

that is an overclocked Opteron, im going of STANDARD clocks, whcih the Opteron would perform nicely but not quicker than X2's or FX dual cores

It's overclocked to the standard of the high end opterons and FXs, hence my point.

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[refraction]

Originally Posted by KyuubiWarrior

It's overclocked to the standard of the high end opterons and FXs, hence my point.

yes and my point is a majority of people wont be overclocking, so im using standard clocks as a base for my table, overclocking does not count.

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[StriderVM]

I have another suggestion.....

Since noobs probably don't know about onboard video cards, would it be best to just list them by name.... Like the (dreaded? ) Intel GMA series?

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[refraction]

thats the problem you see, some of them dreaded cards actually do work! where most dont, so ive made it simple, unless its mentioned, it probably wont work

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