|
|
|
|||||||
| About Us | Register | FAQ | Members List | Calendar | Mark Forums Read |
 |
|
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
May 11th, 2008
|
#1 (permalink) |
|
Computer Guardian Angel
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: In a secret four fold universe.
Posts: 25
|
Processor Questions
So right now my computer has a low end dual core and I was wondering if games would run faster with a high end dual or a low end quad? Also I'm planning on making a Beowulf cluster this summer with the computers I have in my basement. Has anyone tried to run PCSX2 on a cluster computer? If so does it work?
I guess my real question is how many processors can PCSX2 use?
__________________
ASUS M2N32 SLI Deluxe Wi-Fi Edition AMD Athlon X2 4200+ --> Soon to be AMD Phenom X4 9700 --> Lol. AMD is the fail. May have to jump ship. 2GB OCZ DDR2 800 5-5-5 nVidia GeForce 8800GTX Last edited by Kranchan; May 11th, 2008 at 04:47. |
|
|
|
May 11th, 2008
|
#2 (permalink) |
|
AI
 Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: System Server
Posts: 332
|
PCSX2 uses two cores maximum at the moment, and the synchronization issues would probably be made worse with a cluster setup.
A high-end dual would get the best out of the emulator in the mean time.
__________________
Ensure complete compliance to the NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct before posting in the forums. Contribute to and review game troubleshooting Knowledge Base articles at the PCSX2 Game Troubleshooting Guide and PCSX2 Game Statistics Index. |
|
|
|
|
May 11th, 2008
|
#3 (permalink) |
|
Computer Guardian Angel
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: In a secret four fold universe.
Posts: 25
|
Lol, I figured it wouldn't work well on a cluster. I'm still going to try it on the cluster. Are there plans to allow PCSX2 to use more than two processors in the near future? Are there ways to force it to use more than two processors?
__________________
ASUS M2N32 SLI Deluxe Wi-Fi Edition AMD Athlon X2 4200+ --> Soon to be AMD Phenom X4 9700 --> Lol. AMD is the fail. May have to jump ship. 2GB OCZ DDR2 800 5-5-5 nVidia GeForce 8800GTX |
|
|
|
|
May 11th, 2008
|
#4 (permalink) | |
|
Numbers Guy
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Somewhere in America with no free time. :(
Posts: 69
|
Quote:
i.e. Wait at least a few years before significant multi-core support (more than two cores) is possible, in my opinion.
__________________
Mobo: Toshiba IALAA 1.0 <_< CPU: AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology Gold Edition TL-64 (2.2 GHz) Memory: 3 GB DDR2 SDRAM (and a USB drive providing another ~3.2 GB) Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 Hard Drive: 250 GB (5400 RPM) OS: Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit) Protip: You want a PCSX2 SVN build without compiling? Stop asking for them and GOOGLE IT! |
|
|
|
|
|
May 11th, 2008
|
#5 (permalink) |
|
Mod Master
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: United States of Money
Posts: 3,646
|
just get a cheap (sub $200) e8400 and be done with it.
__________________
Antec P182 Special Edition (Chrome Finish) : Intel e8400 (C0 Stepping  @ 4.2Ghz : Thermaltake ToughPower 650 watt PSU : 4 GB Corsair Dominater DHX 1066 DDR2 Ram : Asus P5Q-E : 500 Gb Seagate : 74 GB Raptor : Samsung 20x DVD optical Drive : Samsung Syncmaster T220 22" LCD : Windows 95 : XFX 8800gt Cooling: Swiftech Apogee GTX Special Edition (Copper Finish) : Feser X-Changer Dual 120mm Radiator : XSPC Bay Resevoir : Danger den Chrome Barbs : Masterkleer 7/16 5/8 tubing : Danger Den D5 : D-Tek Fuzion VGA Block |
|
|
|
May 11th, 2008
|
#6 (permalink) |
|
I'm a gopher
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Chicago
Posts: 311
|
Clusters are nice for a lot of things, but real-time emulation isn't one of them.
Head has to decide how to delegate the job, encode this information, transmit, each node has to decode, execute, encode return information, transmit, head has to decode and interpret. For a program that is designed specifically to accomplish tasks in a very short amount of time, this overhead is usually unacceptable. |
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Linear Mode
