Linux Video Hardware Minimum?

[morghanphoenix]

I've noticed that some things segfault on Linux if you're using a GMA950 rather than one of the more expensive nVidia or ATI cards with closed source binary drivers. I'm wondering if pSX is one of those things. I'm looking at a new portable system, and the only application I will be using on it that has a chance to run into this problem is pSX. Aside from the possibility that the Intel card will make it useless for my playstation games it is practically perfect in every way, but as that is the only emulator my GP2X won't run at playable speeds I really want my portable computer to be able to run my favorite playstation emulator.

I had worried about the specs aside from that but 1.6GHz and 1GB RAM is much better than the 1.3 GHz and 256 MB RAM in the recommended system specs from the wiki. I think that since everything says that it is more processor dependent it should be okay, but I was hoping for someone who is running it on a laptop or a netbook to confirm that it will run with a GMA950.

[Ultima]

Honestly, I'm not sure a netbook will run PSX games all that well. I recently tried testing pSX on my Eee PC 1000HE with Windows, and it couldn't run at full speed (usually around 30-45fps). I wouldn't expect the Linux build to fare all that much better.

At any rate, if the card can draw images to screen using OpenGL, then there's little reason pSX wouldn't work on it. pSX doesn't use OpenGL extensively -- it simply uses it as the drawing pad.

[morghanphoenix]

Heh, 30-45 is plenty for RPGs, I've played snes games on my old laptop that only managed to give me 10-15 FPS on anything that used transparencies.

Thanks

[psicomaniaco]

Jul 8, 2009 19:53:32 GMT -5 Ultima said:

Honestly, I'm not sure a netbook will run PSX games all that well. I recently tried testing pSX on my Eee PC 1000HE with Windows, and it couldn't run at full speed (usually around 30-45fps). I wouldn't expect the Linux build to fare all that much better

I was able to use pSX at full speed in my Eee pc by using EEECTL, and setting both the CPU and the cooler to 100%. pSX ran well, and the Eee didn't overheat. I'm using Windows tho, haven't tried Linux.