PS2 Emulation Megagamer Superior Race

[manuel]

sc94597 said:

walsufnir said:

manuel said:
I really wonder if I could run that emulator on my laptop...

And I can use original discs, right? Or do I need ISOs?

What are your specs? Emulation speed (in general) relies a lot in CPU speed (not clockspeed).

I know you probably already know this, but I wanted to clarify a part of your post for others. Clockspeed is still important. There isn't much multi-threading in emulation, at most two cores/threads are used so that makes it a very clock-speed dependent application when talking about intel vs. intel or amd vs. amd (Instructions per cycle on each core are also important so Intel vs. AMD doesn't work.) People always say go for IPC and clock-speed over anything else if you want to emualate games at the best settings. An i3 or Pentium at 3.2 GHZ + is going to be better than an i7 at 2.4ghz, for example, despite having a fourth to half of the threads, because these applications just don't use multi-threading or more than two cores (there are some instances where they can, but it shows minimal difference.)

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Pentium-G3258-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4700MQ (before overclock)

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-4700MQ-vs-Intel-Core-i3-4130

Having said that, his CPU should run most games at full speed (don't know which resolution with his GPU, guessing 720p.) 

Thanks for clarifying.

I don't know much about PC gaming and emulation requirements and such, so it's very helpful.

If I could run PS2 games at 720p, that'd be awesome and I'd be content with it.

(I bought this laptop not for games, but for multitasking with office software (e.g. really huge Excel files) and PDFs. So far it's doing a great job.)