Minimum requirements

marcio · Post by **marcio** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:01 pm

Hi,

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The system requirements mentioned in the "ReadMe" file are the absolute minimum or can they be lowered even more? (E.g. with multi-core)

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Also, does the emulator uses any kind of techniques to improve speed? (E.g. threaded code)

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Thanks,

Squall Leonhart · Post by **Squall Leonhart** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:02 pm

the core is single threaded only, the filters are multithreaded only in direct3d

Exophase · Post by **Exophase** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:14 am

Are you trying to save on power consumption? My gut feeling tells me that you'd be better off not using a core at all than using both at full CPU with a lower clock speed. I could of course be dead wrong, I have seen platforms that consume much less power at lower clock speeds than while halting, but x86 platforms these days should be saving a lot while CPU isn't use.

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If this isn't your goal then I have a hard time imagining a multicore x86 CPU that can't already run VBA well enough. Are you thinking about embedded non-x86 platforms or something?

Squall Leonhart · Post by **Squall Leonhart** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:51 pm

Ion system?

Exophase · Post by **Exophase** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 12:58 pm

Dual core Atoms are plenty powerful enough to run VBA...