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Post by tales52 on Jul 16, 2006 19:12:56 GMT -5
i want to ask if the emulator can
enhaced the grafics with a video card of 128 MB
or that doesn't matter at the time to emulate any game
it because i am gonna buy a video card and i just want to know
(if i write somthing wrong sorry, i'm mexican)
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Post by Melanogaster on Jul 16, 2006 19:44:46 GMT -5
No, it won't enhance the graphics like most of the emulators laying around. So better video cards won't make much difference on this emulator.
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Jul 16, 2006 20:10:24 GMT -5
The main thing a better graphics card would do is allow the emulator to run at better/full speed if your computer isn't that good. A Pentium 4-equivilent processor of any speed should run the emulator with default options regardless of your video card (that statement being made within reason of course... a computer with a Pentium 4 processor wouldn't have a 10-year-old graphics card in it). So if you have a decent computer, a better video card will do near-nothing for you with this emulator.
What are your system specs?
(On a side note, I'd recommend getting a video card with at least 128 MB of memory if you can... since you'll probably end up playing other things besides pSX, and a video card at that level can handle pretty much any game. Just don't get a PCI video card (not to be confused with PCI-Express, which is the newest type of video card)
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Post by psicomaniaco on Jul 16, 2006 20:18:36 GMT -5
And be carefull when choosing cards, as some of them seems better than they really are.
Here's a nice example: "Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 128 bits". This card is 128 bits and has 256 MB of memory. It even 'supports' 2.0 DX9 shadders.
BUT... the card itself sucks. It seems great, but in reality, its just a slow card. It does supports 2.0 shadders, but you can't use them, since they will make the games REALLY slow, it supports 8x anti-alisaing, but if you use more than 4x the framerate will decrease... Really shitty card!
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Jul 16, 2006 20:47:46 GMT -5
I agree completely. I further recommend going with an ATI Radeon card. I've never had trouble with those cards.
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Post by Truth Unknown on Jul 16, 2006 21:27:39 GMT -5
If you are going to get a video card, make sure its DirectX 7 compatable or higher. DirectX 6 and below have MAJOR issues with the emulator.
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Jul 16, 2006 22:20:00 GMT -5
Do they still *make* cards that aren't DirectX7 compatible? I thought all of them now had at least DirectX8 compatibility...
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Post by Truth Unknown on Jul 16, 2006 23:02:20 GMT -5
Only a very few are sold with DirectX6, then a few are DX7, alot are DX8. But all others are DX9, and the best choice for this emulator, because the emu requires DX9 atleast.
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Post by tales52 on Jul 17, 2006 1:37:42 GMT -5
my system is this
pentium 4 2.76 GHz
DDRam 512 MB
64MB video card
is it much better a Nvidia geforce 5500 or a ATIradeon
thanks for answering me
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Jul 17, 2006 3:34:05 GMT -5
Not knowing the model of your video card, I can say that it's roughly about the same as a low-end ATI or NVIDIA card. You can get a better card (as recommended above), but the emulator most likely won't run any better. A newer video card would, at least, provide you with better compatibility.
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Post by patrickp on Jul 17, 2006 13:30:59 GMT -5
Only a very few are sold with DirectX6, then a few are DX7, alot are DX8. But all others are DX9, and the best choice for this emulator, because the emu requires DX9 atleast. Yes, but it really only requires DX9 compatibility, not capability. I'm running a machine with a Rage Fury Pro in it (because that's about the best card I could find that still supports old DOS modes), which was a DX6 card, but it is still DX9 capable and, in fact, runs pSX emulator quite happily. |
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Post by MotM on Jul 30, 2006 11:07:23 GMT -5
Hmm since pSX doesn't use any 3D processing unit for games, I think the more ram you have, the smoother the game runs. I got a on-board GeForce6100, which is a very slow graphics accelerator. However, with 960 mb ram there isn't any slowdown, besides compatibility slowdowns.
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Post by patrickp on Jul 30, 2006 11:49:18 GMT -5
If you're referring to system memory then yes, that's right MotM. I'm guessing yours is a 64MB onboard graphics chip, since that would explain the reported 960MB RAM. Onboard graphics often uses system memory rather than having its own, and 1024MB (a standard 1GB stick) less 64MB = 960MB.
The graphics for pSX emulator are done entirely in software, so your CPU and RAM (the speed of your RAM, as well as amount) are really what matters.
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Post by MotM on Jul 30, 2006 12:42:17 GMT -5
Actually my onboard has 128 mb ram, but the clockspeed is not quite on the high end and cannot be tweaked either. I can't play newer pc games, not even some older ones from early 2000's, or I would have to deal with some serious lag times. My RAM consists of 2x 512 MB ram, resulting in 960 MB. It's different than using one stick of 1GB. Both my on-board and rams are seperate from each other. For example; hard drives that report 80 GB of space, but the actual size is a few Gigs less, so about 75-78 I'd say.
Though, what you said could be true, interesting...
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Post by Ultima on Jul 30, 2006 15:45:45 GMT -5
The size of memory is measured in different units than the size of hard drives when they are advertised. While memory capacity is sold in terms of MiB or GiB (1MiB = 1024KiB), hard drives are measured in terms of MB or GB (1MB = 1000KiB), and that's the discrepancy you see. Technically, the hard drives are 80GB, but that's equal to 78.125GiB. Since Windows (and most other softwares for that matter) don't use the SI units, GiB is actually (and inaccurately) referred to as GB. If you don't know what these units are, you can always Wikipedia them  |
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