Hello,
I am new to this forum but think I am writing this in the correct part. My PC is as follows.
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (1.83Ghz)
ATI Radeon 9550 256mb
Creative SB Live!
896mb Single Channel DDR266 (or 512mb Single Channel DDR400)
My question is about emulation performance. It runs a lot of games very well. But some games the sound gets a bit muddled up and the graphics get a bit jumpy. When I run it at 896mb of slow ram it actually works a bit better than 512mb of faster ram. Also if I go in to my graphics drivers and turn the quality all the way down and set it to speed that helps quite a lot. So my real question is what could be a cost effective way of making my PC a bit more suitable to running N64 emulators.
I could look out for a cheap used Athlon XP 3200+ though I don’t really like using used parts. Though I assume this would help quite a bit. Would it really help that much though?
My mother bored can run duel channel RAM and I can get 2 x 1gb of DDR400 quite cheaply. More RAM looks to be more important than RAM speed but this would give me both. Would this help or just be OTT?
I can not imagine that the graphics cars would be limiting as the N64 graphics are relatively very simple. Though there is a significant improvement in how smooth and flowing the graphics are if I set the drivers to drop quality in favour of speed. I don’t really know what to make of it. Any thoughts?
Or should I just get a new PC? If so what would be a good spec for a very low cost solution?
Many Thanks
I am new to this forum but think I am writing this in the correct part. My PC is as follows.
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (1.83Ghz)
ATI Radeon 9550 256mb
Creative SB Live!
896mb Single Channel DDR266 (or 512mb Single Channel DDR400)
My question is about emulation performance. It runs a lot of games very well. But some games the sound gets a bit muddled up and the graphics get a bit jumpy. When I run it at 896mb of slow ram it actually works a bit better than 512mb of faster ram. Also if I go in to my graphics drivers and turn the quality all the way down and set it to speed that helps quite a lot. So my real question is what could be a cost effective way of making my PC a bit more suitable to running N64 emulators.
I could look out for a cheap used Athlon XP 3200+ though I don’t really like using used parts. Though I assume this would help quite a bit. Would it really help that much though?
My mother bored can run duel channel RAM and I can get 2 x 1gb of DDR400 quite cheaply. More RAM looks to be more important than RAM speed but this would give me both. Would this help or just be OTT?
I can not imagine that the graphics cars would be limiting as the N64 graphics are relatively very simple. Though there is a significant improvement in how smooth and flowing the graphics are if I set the drivers to drop quality in favour of speed. I don’t really know what to make of it. Any thoughts?
Or should I just get a new PC? If so what would be a good spec for a very low cost solution?
Many Thanks
