ok so i have a windows 7 64g and 4g ram laptop. I downloaded dolphin and melee fine but when i start it up it only run between 27-30 fps. Is there anything i can do to get it running full speed ? a new graphics card maybe? Or do i need to get a better desktop all together? Im not very cpu savey so im pretty clueless on how to fix this problem any help is appreciated. thanks in advance
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Melee netplay requirement questions
- Thread starter ep1c_marf
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First of all you seem to be on a laptop and it will struggle to run any GC/Wii game on dolphin due to it having a mobile CPU. Before investing in a desktop I'd suggest messing with the graphical settings. like use OpenGL instead of Direct3D make sure your not using any AA or anisotropic filtering.
However if you do get a desktop go for something with a i5-4670k or i5-3570k either of these should be enough CPU power. Since emulators are more CPU than GPU intensive a GPU wont really help too much but it isn't a bad idea either to get a good one shoot for a GTX 970 if you can find/afford it and at least 8GB of RAM, and with that you will have yourself a pretty nice gaming PC useful for many things other than Melee netplay. if you want more in depth help there is a reddit called /r/buildapcforme which is what it sounds like you post what you want a PC for and hopefully some nice person will lay out a build for you.
However if you do get a desktop go for something with a i5-4670k or i5-3570k either of these should be enough CPU power. Since emulators are more CPU than GPU intensive a GPU wont really help too much but it isn't a bad idea either to get a good one shoot for a GTX 970 if you can find/afford it and at least 8GB of RAM, and with that you will have yourself a pretty nice gaming PC useful for many things other than Melee netplay. if you want more in depth help there is a reddit called /r/buildapcforme which is what it sounds like you post what you want a PC for and hopefully some nice person will lay out a build for you.
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Better to have more resources than be lacking them lol, I agree the GTX970 is overkill but I'm sure he can get by with an AMD-6300, but Intel is just a better performance CPU.
ok im willing to pay for what ever is necessary to run melee as smooth as possible both on and off line
quite a few, there's this whole site for online play for Melee called Anther's Ladder, friendlies and ranked matches
ok hows $400 sound?
will it be able to run melee smotthly?
hmmm mabey i will
Y-L
Smash Champion
do not go with an amd build, they don't fare well with Dolphin. Go with a pentium g3258 + z97 motherboard. Dolphin doesn't really care about the GPU and RAM but the CPU is vital. I recommend at least 4gb ram and a gtx 750 ti is a great budget / high performance gpu. I generally recommend this set: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/jefflongo/saved/8hFYcf
If you do have to make sacrifices you could opt for a cheaper graphics card or switch to an h97 motherboard (which lacks overclocking feature and thus the true power of the g3258 CPU, but even without this you should easily run melee fullspeed).
If you do have to make sacrifices you could opt for a cheaper graphics card or switch to an h97 motherboard (which lacks overclocking feature and thus the true power of the g3258 CPU, but even without this you should easily run melee fullspeed).
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Y-L
Smash Champion
Sure you have no problem running melee, but take a look at the Dolphin CPU benchmark and you'll see that AMD chips undoubtedly perform worse in Dolphin, it's not because I have a preference for Intel, but it is how Dolphin works. It can only use two CPU cores and AMD CPU's falter in singlethreaded performance. Look at any CPU benchmark elsewhere and you can confirm this. Just because you don't have any problems doesn't mean that's what you should get.
To run melee online as smooth as possible you'd be fine with the G3258 and any decent graphics card.. I just don't think it's a good idea to buy budget parts that will be outdated and obsolete in a year just because it will run what you want to play at this point in time. That's why I recommend those parts a little over budget. They will last much longer in terms of relevancy in the long run.
Y-L
Smash Champion
The G3258, a Z97, and the GTX 750 ti will last you quite some time. When you feel the the G3258 is comparatively slow you can just overclock it if you haven't already (since you 'd get a Z97 board) and the 750 ti is a solid GPU.