Requirements
Minimum and recommended systems for running Project64.
Recommended System Specification
This specification should allow you to play any compatible game with good speed, graphics, sound and control, subject to the limitations of the emulator. Note that this specification is still not sufficient for every option available, but with proper configuration you shouldn't have significant limitations.
Intel Pentium 3 1.5Ghz or higher or AMD Athlon 1.5 GHz or higher
512MB RAM or more
nVidia GeForce FX or later or ATI Radeon 9500 or later
1GB or more free hard drive space
Creative Soundblaster Live! or higher
Adaptoid and original Nintendo N64 controller for each player
Microsoft Windows XP with latest updates.
Optional extras:
video card with TV out and a high quality widescreen television set
high quality stereo speakers supporting dolby virtual surround
USB hub and/or controller extension cables
genuine Nintendo Rumble Pak for each player
Minimum / Basic System Requirements
This specification will be sufficient for you to enjoy some of the compatible games with good graphics, sound and control, subject to correct configuration and some limitations of the emulator. You are likely to suffer some performance problems (leading to audio problems), and you will not be able to use all the options in the emulator. Look into using 3rd party plugins.
Intel Pentium 3 700Mhz or AMD Athlon 800Mhz CPU*
256MB system RAM
200MB free hard drive space + additional 20MB-100MB free hard drive space per game, depending on game and number of saves you make
100% Microsoft DirectX 7 compatible video, sound and input devices**. See below for realistic minimum video hardware!
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft DirectX 8
*the plugins contain SSE optimisations, early Athlons did not have SSE.
**The video device must be a primary device, have at least 16MB local memory and two texture units. Depending on the features supported by your video card some content may not be displayed correctly and thus some games marked as compatible may suffer glitches or not be playable on your system. The exact features required vary from game to game.
Realistic minimum video hardware for the v1.5x video plugin:
nVidia GeForce256 (GF1) and ATI Radeon (early models) are suggested as realistic minimum video hardware. With good drivers they have the required features (blend modes etc.) for the D3D6 plugin.
Realistic minimum video hardware for the v1.6 or later video plugin
nVidia GeForce3 or ATI Radeon 8500 or later. With good drivers they have the required features (pixel shaders v1.1 etc.) for the D3D8 plugin.
Better cards mainly allow higher resolutions, filtering, anti-aliasing and so on without substantially increasing emulation accuracy.
The following graphics chipsets (thus all graphics cards based on them) can be considered below minimum specification:
3dfx Voodoo 1,2,3 (1,2 - not at all, 3 - poor image quality)
ATI Rage128, Rage Pro (poor image quality)
Intel i740, i810 (poor image quality)
Matrox G200, G400, G450 (poor image quality)
nVidia Riva128 (poor image quality)
S3 Savage 4, Savage 2000 (particularly bad, these cards hang)
You may find that Project64 usable on a lower-specification system than described here, particularly with some games and careful configurationm, and/or 3rd party plugins. If so then enjoy, but please don't expect too much, and we do not support below min. spec. systems sorry.
