who plays it?
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Yeah some are slow and some are broken and some are bad graphic errors..want to play it ? Buy NGC and give Nintendo a support for now. Do not bother the author about it. It will improving in time but not for a few years..be patient. Go and play your own NGC console if you have one. An Nintendo Game Cube console is not dead yet.
Since both these guys sort of avoided your question I'll answer it for you.
As far playing goes, unless it's a 2d game like bust a move you don't have much of a chance of playing it without errors and at a good speed. Most people who use dolphin use it to see how it's coming along. It's not yet a viable gaming emulator for 99% of things.
As far playing goes, unless it's a 2d game like bust a move you don't have much of a chance of playing it without errors and at a good speed. Most people who use dolphin use it to see how it's coming along. It's not yet a viable gaming emulator for 99% of things.
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NotMyRealAccoun
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Can someone confirm that the slowness is caused by the processor, not by the video card?
Trotterwatch
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Indeed it is the CPU that causes slowness. You can have 4 of the faster cards SLI'd and the performance gain would be minimal if any.
Alex The Great
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Finally, NotMyRealAccount doesn't act as a fool! Actually, the emulator needs to be improved. The Dolphin coders can improve speed, but they want to improve compatibility first.
NotMyRealAccoun
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Alex The Great said:
LOL! Whats wrong with a little joke?
I think they should solve the speed problem cuz who can play a game, play. Who cant, wait xD!
Alex The Great
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Bust a Move has full speed, Donkey Konga also has decent speed. Actually, that was the reason I asked for improved speed: no more tedious testing. And I've even heard that improving compatibility is harder than improving speed. But the Dolphin coders do what they want (cuz they have no boss...) so we have to wait.
Improving the speed is most likely harder then compatibilty. It's the way programming works with everything, not just emulation.
You write the code as best you can, but you're always aiming for functionailty first. Once it works you go through and adjust the code to try and speed it up (if needed). In order to really optimize code well you sort of need to know every piece of it, and untill it's entirely written it's basicly impossible to do that. Of course they could go through and speed up what they have now, but it may end up getting undone when more features/compatability is added in.
Optimizating programs is one of the hardest things when programming today. To make matters worse most programmers are much worse at optimizing then they were 10 years ago. Mainly because for your average application it just doesn't matter, computers have gotten so much faster that it allows people to be sloppy and still have programs running at full speed. Of course in the case of dolphin they don't really have that play room with extra speed. That isn't to say dolphin is sloppy, it's just saying that it's hard to find people who are actually any good at it.
You write the code as best you can, but you're always aiming for functionailty first. Once it works you go through and adjust the code to try and speed it up (if needed). In order to really optimize code well you sort of need to know every piece of it, and untill it's entirely written it's basicly impossible to do that. Of course they could go through and speed up what they have now, but it may end up getting undone when more features/compatability is added in.
Optimizating programs is one of the hardest things when programming today. To make matters worse most programmers are much worse at optimizing then they were 10 years ago. Mainly because for your average application it just doesn't matter, computers have gotten so much faster that it allows people to be sloppy and still have programs running at full speed. Of course in the case of dolphin they don't really have that play room with extra speed. That isn't to say dolphin is sloppy, it's just saying that it's hard to find people who are actually any good at it.
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And it sure makes life a heck much easier for us.Coco said:
Blacklord: Almost all games run at 1-5 fps regardless of hardware.