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DJ Stenny
June 2nd, 2005, 00:25
2 questions:

1. Does Dolphin have support for SLi?

2. What are the requirements for a beta tester. I ask because i'll be building a new PC soon and here are the specs:

AMD Athlon64 3500+ Socket 939
1 GB Corsair XMS series running at PC3200
2x GeForce 6800GT
and the rest seems irrelevant here...
Pky
June 2nd, 2005, 00:41
Lol, first, you can't be a betatester if you don't know to program( i don't know personally if you do) and the computer has something to it.... but even if you have the best you won't be a betatester for that...You can't come just and say hi i want to be a betatester, i don't know anything but i can learn... Look here (http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=27067&highlight=betatester)
DJ Stenny
June 2nd, 2005, 00:45
So i have to know how to program? :plain:

*sigh

Does a 5 on the Computer Science AP exam count towards anything? :P
Clements
June 2nd, 2005, 01:04
2 questions:

1. Does Dolphin have support for SLi?

Nope, not until NVIDIA add support for Dolphin within their drivers or someone hacks support in (Extrememly unlikely). Would do zero to increase FPS anyway, Dolphin will always be CPU limited. A better question is whether Dolphin will be threaded to support multi-processors and dual/multi-core. Again, probably not, Azimer made an informative post regarding the feasibility of this a while ago.
DJ Stenny
June 2nd, 2005, 01:36
Hmm...

Why is Dolphin CPU limited? Wouldn't it make more sense to make more use of the OpenGL API? Heck, look at Pete's GPU plugins for EPSXE. They're very GPU dependant results are great.
ShizZy
June 2nd, 2005, 02:01
Lol, first, you can't be a betatester if you don't know to program( i don't know personally if you do) and the computer has something to it.... but even if you have the best you won't be a betatester for that...You can't come just and say hi i want to be a betatester, i don't know anything but i can learn... Look here (http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=27067&highlight=betatester)Nahh... you don't have to know how to program to be a beta tester. You just need to have a considerable knowledge of hardware, have access to a ton of games to test, and have a ton of free time. While I'm sure a lot of the dolphin testers know a thing or two about programming, I'm pretty sure that there are some who don't. Otherwise, they'd probably be coding the emulator as well :p
General Plot
June 2nd, 2005, 02:57
So i have to know how to program? :plain:

*sigh

Does a 5 on the Computer Science AP exam count towards anything? :P

Actually, I have a BS in Computer Science, and the highest possible grade is a 4, not a 5. So I call your bluff. :P
DJ Stenny
June 2nd, 2005, 03:17
I'm refering to the high school AP exam. It's on a 5-point scale.

HA!
Shibb
June 2nd, 2005, 03:27
Actually, I have a BS in Computer Science, and the highest possible grade is a 4, not a 5. So I call your bluff. :P

this highest grade on an ap exam, any is 5 www.collegeboard.com, secondly lets not be stupid and closed minded here, is it possible for dolhpin to support sli, no, does azimer or anyone working on dolphin have any idea as how sli support could be incorporated into the dolphin no, frankly sli is pretty useless at the moment, it probably wont be very useful in anything, pc gaming, and 3d rendering for about a year, you can find more about sli at www.anandtech.com ... clements is right a dual core processor would be more feasible, but i doubt that anyone working on dolphin at the moment would be able to incorporate multi threading into the actual program... honestly though, you should just buy a gamecube they are 100 dollars....
Pky
June 2nd, 2005, 03:33
Actually, i didn't mean to program things... i wrote it wrong, i mean to know about the soft and hard, the states of those ones and some others things... but not everyone can become one...
General Plot
June 2nd, 2005, 07:07
[QUOTE=Shibb]this highest grade on an ap exam, any is 5 www.collegeboard.com, secondly lets not be stupid and closed minded hereQUOTE]

Well, FYI, I went to North Seattle Community College, and my tests for the Bachelor's was on a 4 point scale, on which I scored a 3.6. And most other campuses use the same system as well. The only tests I took that didn't follow that scale was my certs for A+, MCSE and CCNE.
Miretank
June 2nd, 2005, 07:17
will dolphin "take some advantage" in some 64 bit cpu? it can run faster in 64-bit?
Doomulation
June 2nd, 2005, 08:06
Hmm...

Why is Dolphin CPU limited? Wouldn't it make more sense to make more use of the OpenGL API? Heck, look at Pete's GPU plugins for EPSXE. They're very GPU dependant results are great.
It's cpu depedant because it's up to the processor to translate all the things so that the pc may read it. And besides that, the hardware just isn't the same, so the cpu has to convert it so the current hardware understands it or do all the work itself. That's a little why as to why it's so cpu dependant. All emulation is.


will dolphin "take some advantage" in some 64 bit cpu? it can run faster in 64-bit?
Afaik, no. Dolphin is compiled for 32-bit and to take advantage of 64-bit, it needs to be compiled for that platform. But it might run a teensy little faster on a 64-bit processor, but by no means a big jump I guess.
raksmey1309
June 2nd, 2005, 08:09
no,at the moment.