Anyone get a Core 2 Duo yet? Tried Dolphin?
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TerraPhantm
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If kentsfield wasn't coming out in January, I might've gotten conroe. Core 2 should show how CPU limited Dolphin was, because it is a good bit faster then K8.
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Yes and no. This laptop has a core duo but I haven't tried dolphin. I doubt it would run much faster anyway.
Falcon4ever
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Dolphin won't run fast on a dualcore (it's not designed to use multiple cores), however there were plans to run the core and gfxplugin on different cores/threads...
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Doom: Actually that would be just a "no", as the Core Duo is a less advanced chip compared to the recently released Core 2 Due.
Falcon: Even so, the individual cores in the Core 2 are significantly faster than any single core chip currently released. There should be a speed increase anywhere from 20% to 50% from the top Athlon 64 to the top Core 2.
Falcon: Even so, the individual cores in the Core 2 are significantly faster than any single core chip currently released. There should be a speed increase anywhere from 20% to 50% from the top Athlon 64 to the top Core 2.
bouncerboy15
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Core 2 Duo chips are very impressive. It beats the fillings out of the top AMD chips.Knuckles said:You won't see a damn different whatever what is the power of your PC.... maybe lik 1 or 2 FPS, wait for the emu to get better.. and the PCs to get 500% faster
cooliscool
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That they are.. I wouldn't doubt a nice increase in speed in any emulator.
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cooliscool said:
Yep. I think that even Dolphin might see a noticeable difference.
By-the-by, it's odd how PS2 emulation seems to be faster than GC emulation right now, even with the more complex architecture.
I'm not sure what ector and F|RES are doing these days, but I think that Dolphin could still use quite a bit of optimisation. Afaik the all the T&L is being done on the CPU, which could potentially be moved to the vertex shaders, or at least to another core. Ditto for the audio.
And I'd guess the the recompiler is not nearly optimal right now either. IMHO we could see near playable framerates with Dolphin on the Core 2 range of processor (which can clock up to 4GH on air alone, meaning insane performance when considering the efficiency per clock of the architecture) with some major optimisations.
BlueFalcon7
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Are you implying HLE hacks? Because pretty much everyone whos in on GC emulation, and emulation support is right here on emutalk. Im sure we could find other people willing to help. One reason the GC emulation isnt doing as well is because its so private. We need to find more people intrested in programming, and helping us out, like the PS2 emulation.