about sound and display card.

[KEN]

My current sound and display card seems unable to run with the emulator. I would like to buy another one. Please recommend me a sound card and display card. Thanks.

 

[Evrain]

Sound Card: Creative SB Audigy 2
GFX Card: ATI Radeon 9800tx
Evrain

 

[Strange]

Sound Card: Creative SB Audigy 2
GFX Card: ATI Radeon X800Pro

 

[posty_2k3]

If you wanna save some money, go for the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, it works fine. But what they suggested above are the best

 

[ScorpionZero]

Go for a cheap nVidia, they work well with chankast.
Sound card, any should work well. Maybe a sound blaster pro?

 

[Jabaturbo]

You guys must be kidding. Chankast won't run a lot better with top of the line sound/vidcards. Even a dirty-cheap Geforce4-MX and a 6 year old SBlaster Live! will do.

For Chanka, money is better spent on a faster CPU than on hi-end sound and videocards.

 

[Nightmare]

You guys must be kidding. Chankast won't run a lot better with top of the line sound/vidcards. Even a dirty-cheap Geforce4-MX and a 6 year old SBlaster Live! will do.

For Chanka, money is better spent on a faster CPU than on hi-end sound and videocards.

it's true for the 0.2A release, but the next releases will probably implement plugins... so don't be so sure...

 

[Clements]

The video requirements are not high enough to warrant 9800 Pros or better. My CPU ensures that I'll get the fast frame rates I want, regardless of video card. The video hardware of the Dreamcast is not good enough to require a high end card, but that 200MHz CPU is powerful and will take a decent CPU to get good speeds - this is emulation and not PC gaming which is basically the opposite requirement-wise. I agree with Jabaturbo.

On-Board sound is fine for emulation, as well as cheap audio cards. Audigy 2s are not necessary at all. The money is best spent on the CPU.

 

[Nightmare]

The video hardware of the Dreamcast is not good enough to require a high end card.

perfectly true for the cpu and the sound card, but for the video card you estimate the speed with the actual dreamcast screen mode, and i think it will not the only one in the futur releases... maybe i'am wrong... who knows...

 

[KEN]

really.... Thanks all of you guys