So what is the best GPU/GPU if I want to emulate stuff?
Can I get away with an AMD CPU?
Usually intel cpus perform better on emulation, that's because they have some instructions that help with emulation or something idk. As for graphic cards I really don't know
Just buy a PS2. PS2 emulation has a lot of graphical errors, so the graphical enhancement is pointless.
>>51921890
>playing PS2 games at 1080p 60 fps is pointless
you wat mate.
>>51921550
No
PCSX2 is extremely CPU-dependent
>>51921903
>he seriously thinks he is going to get 1080p at 60fps out of a fucking ps2 emulator
>>51921909
What's more import, threads or ghz?
For example: would a 4 ghz 8 thread 4790 or a 3.5 ghz 12 thread 5930 be better?
>>51921550
The Pentium G3258 is unironically the best option for a cheap emulation setup, and one of the only good uses for that chip period. Two strong cores is exactly what you want for emulators like PCSX2 and Dolphin.
>>51921954
>hurr durr I'm so retarded holy fuck
Fuck off, retard.
>>51921903
PCSX2 doesn't emulate better frame rates and yes, when your games have graphical glitches everywhere it's annoying as fuck and I'd rather just be playing it in SD without glitches instead.
>>51921987
A) that's not how you compare cpus
B) single thread performance is best
>>51921993
>>hurr durr I'm so retarded holy fuck
>Fuck off, retard.
>LE JOHN CENA MAYMAY XDDD
>DUDE YOU KNOW NOTHING LMAO
I see 12 year old redditors have arrived. I'll be waiting to see proof of pcsx2 running at 1080p 60fps
>>51921987
see >>51922022
It mainly uses 1 core and 2-3 at best
I was thinking of getting a Braswell NUC for HTPC purposes, but doing a little emulation on the side might be nice.
How far could a N3700 be pushed?
>>51922053
are you literally retarded?
>>51921987
Single core performance. Dolphin only supports two cores. PCSX2 only supports three, and one of those is completely unnecessary unless you set it up a certain way to use the extra one.
>>51921998
That picture is from 2009, fuckboi. PCSX2 has moved on a huge amount since then.
>>51922053
Fuck off, retard.
>>51922075
>>51922076
Nice, so where is the 1080 AND 60fps?
>>51922076
That was an example picture. When I tried Katamari in 2013 it had lines and shit everywhere. You're also a know nothing if you think PCSX2 doesn't have graphical errors in this day and age. Sound errors too. Those are annoying.
>>51922076
>Playing a 4:3 game in 16:9
Please go the fuck back to /v/ and never come back. Jesus christ.
>>51922090
Games run at their original framerate, retard. If a game was 60fps on PS2, it'll be 60fps on PCSX2. Apparently you have zero clue about how emulation works, or are just pretending to be retarded because you're lonely and desperate.
>>51922101
Nobody said it has zero issues, you stubborn moron. But there are ways to work around almost all of them, and most games work just fine. There's also a wiki.
http://wiki.pcsx2.net/index.php/Katamari_Damacy
>>51922107
>I don't know what a widescreen patch is
>I'm too retarded to see that the image isn't stretched
And this is the technology board. Jesus fucking christ, you retards are hopeless.
>>51922123
Yeah there's totally nothing stretched out of aspect ratio there. You got me, /v/irign. You're so right.
>>51922156
t. macfag
I wouldn't get too excited over PS2 emulation. Of the 5 games I've tried, one didn't work at all and the rest had black jail bars over the entire screen whenever I touched the texture resolution. I had to leave everything as native resolution and I could only upscale the total picture. So I'm playing games basically exactly how they look on the original PS2, but with occasional slowdown and crashes. I'm just on an i5-4690k, so if you get something newer than you might get better performance but you'll still have the bugs.
Dolphin, on the other hand, is a miracle of programming. Everything runs perfectly with all the nice graphical enhancements. After playing with it for a few days, it only crashed once. So you can use my CPU as a reference, if you get anything equal or faster then it'll perform just fine.
The Model 2 emulator also works great with my i5-4690.
I also have an FX-8350 sitting in a spare PC, and it's garbage for emulating the PS2 or Wii. Actually I didn't do extensive testing with Dolphin, but with PCSX2 everything is completely unplayable. It does a nice job with everything else though, which is good since I enjoy CPS2 and CPS3 arcade games and some shmups from the early 2000's.
tl;dr - emulation is NOT very multithreaded. Expect to use 2 or 3 cores at the most.
>>51922162
Are you going to defend his retardation?
>>51921550
6600k. 6700k if you're planning on using software mode in PCSX2 a lot.
GPU doesn't matter a ton, usually best to go with NVidia though as AMD tend to drop the ball with OGL support. A 750ti will be enough for 1080p + AA.
Why couldnt you just use a raspberry pi?
>>51922176
I don't even know what you were arguing about, I just saw the filename on the front page and butted in lol
>>51922195
0/10
>>51922156
>muh hud elements
Fuck off, retarded animeposter.
>>51922164
The comments about "upscaling" are bullshit. Clearly you were doing something wrong and only changing the window resolution rather than the render resolution or something. I play everything at 8x native and haven't had any "black jail bars".
>>51921550
i use an x6 1045t and a gtx 670 and i upscale games in pcsx2 4-5x and run them at 100% speed the vast majority of the time. enable multithreaded vu and it helps. dunno what half of the insanely retarded shitposting in this thread is about. there are games that don't emulate very well of course, but most JRPGs i've played emulate just fine, compatibility is pretty well documented by the community.
>>51922290
My eyes...
It's hurt...
>>51922164
>I also have an FX-8350 sitting in a spare PC, and it's garbage for emulating the PS2 or Wii. Actually I didn't do extensive testing with Dolphin, but with PCSX2 everything is completely unplayable.
Depends on what you're trying to play. I've fully played through a bunch of games on both Dolphin and PCSX2 with an FX-8350, but there are definitely games that a bottlenecked with it. For example, Shadow of the Colossus runs too slowly to be playable. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Dynasty Warriors 3 will run perfectly well on the other hand. So it's really a tossup. If you're planning on emulating often, an AMD processor might not be the best choice for you.
>>51921954
Unless you're running on a toaster, it's not a big deal. Increasing the internal resolution is GPU-bound, and that's usually not the bottleneck for emulators. If you've got a modern video card you'll have no problems doing 1080p with AA and all the bells and whistles. The slow part in emulating is translating instruction sets, which is CPU-bound, and it's going to be the same performance regardless of what you set the resolution to.
>>51922076
Go into gsdx, make sure your vertical rendering resolution is 2160 and your interlacing is set to Bob tff. It'll make the smt games on ps2 look a lot better.
>>51921550
Literally the only games that don't run at full speed on my g3258 at 4.3GHz are R&C 1-3, J&D 1-3 sometimes, Shadow of the colossus, and mgs3 very rarely. If you just want to emulate shit, get a g3258. As for gpu, a 7870 will probably be great. I've yet to find a game that is bottlenecked by my 7870, and I run it at either 2560x1440, or 1920x2160.
>>51921831
Intel CPUs tend to perform better in emulation because emulating a tightly coupled machine with multiple parts doing stuff is actually very hard to split into threads; the emulated parts usually need to communicate frequently with tight timing requirements and thread synchronization costs just become too high. A perfectly accurate emulator practically has to do much of its things in a single thread.
AMD's current designs just don't have the single-thread performance for this, at least without insane overclocking.
I have a Phenom ii x4 960T and 6870, had no problem with FF X, not even on higher speeds
