ZSNES board

Good luck with that. I have the ATi 5770 and although in theory it *should* be able to handle borderlands flawlessly, it runs with very low framerate and just doesn't look as nice as the same game running on my roommate's GeForce 260. Been running drivers 10.1 thru 10.6, seems to be the problem as ...

Now we need some benchmarks:

- Everest Ultimate memory speed & latency scores
- Cinebench R11.5 single-threaded and multi-threaded CPU score
- 3DMark '06 CPU score
- bsnes v0.68 "CPU stress test edition" : http://byuu.org/bsnes/

Nice unlock+overclock. Now you have a full-featured Phenom II X4 955 for dirt-cheap. Solid case and monstrous cooler. I really like that ASUS mobo - it's the only motherboard still equipped with *TWO* PS/2 ports. 4GB RAM is more than enough, even with a 64-bit OS. You don't need more than that, unle...

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Okay, is ATI OpenGL under Linux usable now? 8) * They finally added support for the newest (stable) versions of the kernel & X.Org in Catalyst 10.7 (no need for manual driver patching) * The slow 2D performance is history - Starting from Catalyst 10.6, 2D runs like butter, even with compositing...

* Even the GTX460 is unimpressive: The VRM section of these cards heats up to 105 degrees C . That's more than toasty. http://www.ozone3d.net/public/jegx/201007/gtx460_infrared_under_load.jpg * AMD has finally fixed their OpenGL drivers with Catalyst 10.7 Old games (and emulators using OpenGL like D...

Now with OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenGL 4.1 support (!) * ATI Catalyst 10.7 OGL Beta brings full OpenGL ES 2.0 support to the Radeon HD series of cards (Windows-only ATM, Linux driver coming soon). This driver finally adds the much needed GL_ARB_direct_state_access extension. An OpenGL 4.1 driver for Wind...

The latest version of Catalyst (10.4) brings tons of great features and improvements for all ATI Radeon HD cards: - Greatly improved / fixed 2D performance with Aero ON under Windows 7 - Hardware acceleration of L 5.1 H.264 video (finally!) - HW acceleration of Quad HD (3840x2160) videos - Video tra...

ATI OpenGL 4.0 driver released ahead of NVIDIA - brings full OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3 support --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMD has just released a special version of Catalyst 10.3 for Windows and Linux with OpenGL 4.0 support. For the first time ever, ...

No new version since...........a long time ago :( What happened to the project? Is it still on ice? I'd really love to see a new version with improved (accurate) *DMG* emulation. The CGB part is nice,but all I need is DMG. bgb is still a better emulator when it comes to DMG emulation, but I prefer t...

Lovely emulator. I just LOVE the innovative real-time menu :) Just for kicks, I tried nemulator on an 8-yr old single core junker and the menu runs (slowly, but it doesn't crash :D) I have a few suggestions and complaints though: - Could you add an option to disable VSYNC when browsing through the m...

I have just installed the public RC build of Win7 to do some emulator testing / benchmarking and see if Win7 performs good enough on old hardware. The RC build (7100) was supposed to bring back R/W support for FAT32 partitions that was removed in the beta, but to my surprise, Windows 7 still thinks ...

gl textures still broken. Is that with the 9.12 OpenCL hotfix or with the regular Catalyst 9.12? (You don't need to reinstall the Catalyst 9.12 hotfix - just get the hotfix driver, extract the atioglxx.dll and replace the old one in the system folder with the new one. No reboot is necessary) The ho...

ATI cards finally got full OpenGL 3.2 support with the latest Catalyst (9.12) drivers. 9 new OpenGL extensions in this version (176 total) UPDATE: Get the 9.12 OpenCL hotfix , not the regular 9.12 driver. It includes additional OpenGL fixes and performance improvements. NOTE: The latest version of G...

@Squall: Try the 9.12 BETA for XP / XP64:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EOL1XBKJ

ATI Catalyst 9.12 Beta brings more OpenGL improvements:

- 6 new OpenGL extensions (167 total)
- OpenGL 3.2 context creation works
- GLSL 1.50
- 67% of OpenGL 3.2 supported

The OpenCL Beta drivers bring more OpenGL improvements:

* 2 new OpenGL extensions (for a total of 161)
* 44% of OpenGL 3.2 supported

a dual core would be great for emulation because one core could run just the emu, and windows would consume whatever else it wants for spyware and things of that nature. 2 cores are not enough if you use PCSX2 or any other multi-core optimized emulator. 3 cores (and a midrange low-power ATI GPU) is...

Athlon II X2 240 vs. Pentium Dual Core E5300 - Similar price and performance - 65W TDP - both are good overclockers This might've been useful nine months ago. Yeah, the best bang for the buck at the moment is the Athlon II X4 620. Dirt cheap quad for the masses. Undervolt this baby and you have a w...

Is there a Linux build of Turbo Engine for older (SSE1 only) CPUs?

Athlon II X2 240 vs. Pentium Dual Core E5300

- Similar price (dirt cheap) and performance
- 65W TDP (perfect for a HTPC/torrent box)
- both are good overclockers

Added another video to the "CPU stress test suite"

Even CoreAVC isn't fast enough to play back newer anime MKVs on my PC Is your machine fast enough to play these videos at full framerate: VIDEO #1 <-- H.264 720p 24fps (doesn't stress the CPU too much) VIDEO #2 <-- H.264 1080p 24fps L4.1 (needs more juice) VIDEO #3 <-- VC-1 720p 60fps (CPU muncher)...

I can vouch for this, especially when it comes to the most recent version of CoreAVC. v1.9.5 - that's the one I'm using. Even CoreAVC isn't fast enough to play back newer anime MKVs on my PC. It handles them just fine, even those MKV videos with CABAC :) HINT: For best performance,use the Overlay M...

You can't make miracles out of crap. CoreAVC is almost like a miracle for single-core clunkers. With the highly optimized ffdshow decoder (ICL10 + SSE, all post-processing turned off ) it's still not possible to play 720p/24fps videos without frame drops. CoreAVC plays those 720p/24 videos using le...