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#3 ·
bring desmume on a flash drive to the store and pop it in when nobody is looking
 
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Neither is all that great when it comes to emulation. I'd say the second is probably the better choice though (the more expensive one) but the first may fare better in PC gaming due to the onboard Radeon HD4250.
 
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SCHUMI_4EVER said:
Neither is all that great when it comes to emulation. I'd say the second is probably the better choice though (the more expensive one) but the first may fare better in PC gaming due to the onboard Radeon HD4250.
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If neither are that great for emulation, can you find any laptops on that site (preferably under $700) that would be?
 
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No...laptops just overall lack power, unless you buy the farm (and then battery life goes to hell)...and even the more powerful and expensive components are usually a fair bit weaker than their desktop counterparts.

Seeing as you're looking at laptops you obviously need one so pick based on those requirements and take any emulation and gaming capabilities you get as a bonus.
 
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Yeah, I just got a laptop with an i7 processor. So that's top-of-the-line. And it STILL can't run games on DeSmuME at full speed. At least New Super Mario Bros. works fine during the stages themselves, although not on the world map (although sadly my save data made after the first fortress mysteriously vanished).

Are there any ways to make this go faster? I've seen videos of people running games at full speed on DeSmuME where I am not. I get the feeling there are certain options I can configure for this.
 
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Actually you've made a rather unfortunate mistake. Mobile i7 processors can't hold a candle to their desktop counterparts. As far as I remember the only mobile i7 processor runs at 1.7Ghz stock Turbo-ing up to 2.4Ghz...the desktop variants run stock at 2.6Ghz and up and overclock and/or Turbo all the way up to 4Ghz. The mobile i3s and i5s have better stock clocks and can turbo a little more. Any desktop would have been a better choice though, even just some $500 system.
 
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Man, it's actually 1.6 GHz. And even overclocking it won't help?

OK, what about this? I have a desktop that's a 3 GHz Pentium 4. It can't play DeSmuME games at full speed either, but what if I overclock it? It's only got 504 MB of RAM, though, so I may need to upgrade that.

EDIT: I just read about overclocking on Wikipedia, and I think I'm too scared to do it.
 
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speyeker said:
I did try this game on a friend's i3 beforehand and noticed that it seemed to run at full speed....

Are you really saying this computer STILL isn't powerful enough to run games on DeSmuME at full speed?
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Yes because it barely has half the power of a regular desktop i7.
 
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Well, are there any plans for future releases of DeSmuME to support hyperthreading? Or at least for the program to be more accessible to "lower-end" machines?

At the very least, New Super Mario Bros. DOES run at full speed in the stages themselves (NOT on the world map), which is something that my desktop could not do. I think there are options in DeSmuME I can configure to speed it up, such as disabling OpenGL, something to do with frameskipping, etc. I don't know if it'll be enough, but I guess it's worth a try, right? And I guess we always have to wait and see what 0.9.7 will bring us....
 
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No...and all hyperthreading is is fake cores, if DeSmuME already doesn't use the 6 normal ones there's no way it'll make use of hyperthreading. And no I don't see DeSmuME using more than 2 cores or requiring less power anytime soon...if ever.
 
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you should be using the Soft Rasterizer...and for the rest check the FAQ (on the official site)
 
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