PC COnfiguration for play Wii and PS2-Games

PhantomLord80

Hello, a question: What PC Configuration do I need to play Wii and PS2-Games smoothly?

I have an Intel Core i5 3450, 4 GB RAM and a Geforce 740 with 2 GB, Batocera and Games are stored on a SSD. I did not activate the nVidia-Drivers because the emulators get a lot slower.

Should I use a better graphic card? More RAM? A Core i7?

poke

PhantomLord80 emulators, specially PS2 and Wii, will not get slower with the proprietary nvidia-drivers. Games should be playable with your PC specs.

Which emulators are slower with nvidia? Even legacy drivers are faster than nouveau. See the feedback in https://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/forum/d/1851-batocera-linux-5-20-with-nvidia-legacy-drivers-390-xx.

You card is supported be the newest drivers. Could you test 5.20 and provide feedback? You are the first person I know to have worst results with nvidia.

Minux87

I do not know the config it takes, but I have an I5 7500 with 8GB Ram without graphics card with Batocera on SSD and the WII, 3DS, Gamecube and PS2 works impecable
I think your graphics card is very light..

lux

Minux87
May I ask you wich PS2 games have you tested or settings you use?
I have i7 8550U with 8GB Ram without graphics card and a see little slowdowns e.g. in Tekken 5.
Thx

Minux87

lux I tested with Dragon ball Z budokai 3, Soul Calibur 3. I just tested Tekken 5 and I'm not slowing down.
For the settings, I am in default

lux

Minux87 Thx. I checked and your CPU is faster than mine, that's the reason.
The only other difference between us is I run Batocera from USB card with roms on SSD, but I don't know if it may be relevant

Minux87

lux according to me whether it is with a HDD or SSD ca should be the same

Minux87

It works or not

Retroboy

Good morning Minux87 ,
After a few months of use, are you still happy with your "i5-7500 and 8GB ram without a graphics card"?

Everything is going well, you don’t have problems with fps on ps2 or wii?
Can you make a comeback?
Thank you in advance.

GameCast

just need open GL over 4.0 .

chamilonster

may be the 4gb ram? i have the same problem...
PS2 NOT WORKING =(
Batocera OS on HDD - i3-6100T - OpenGL 4.5 - 4GB ram
https://imgur.com/s9HD2VE

GameCast

i am using gtx 1050 4 gb and 16 gb ram 8 cores cpu , and works greate, off coarse we need respekt the compatibility list . cause not all games are running propertly .

DarkDeveloper

Apologies for jumping on this thread after 2 years, but thought I would add my own experiences for future reference purposes.

So, I am currently building a retro gaming machine for family members, and I managed to buy a motherboard/CPU/Ram combo off eBay - the combo features a Intel I5-7500T (35 watts) processor and 8gb of DDR4 ram (2130mhz I think)

I’ve done some initial testing with Batocera v31, Wii, Gamecube, XBox and PS2 games, using the integrated graphics (Intel 630)

PS2 - Games managed to run, but either ran too slowly (Outrun 2006 C2C) or suffered graphical/display corruption (COD2:Big Red One). PSP games run fine however.

Wii - Tested with Mayflash Dolphin, WiiMotes and HOD 2 + HOD:Overkill - Games work well. Whilst playing Overkill (with 2 players playing) there is the occasional glitch on some of the more graphically intensive scenes (multiple zombies coming at ya), but this is only noticeable if you are looking for jitter as I was.

Gamecube - I was’nt expecting much here, but to my surprise, the one game I tested (Star Wars: Clone Wars) worked well, with seemingly no glitches

XBox - Only tested for a few seconds each (need to do more testing), but Halo:Combat Evolved and Crimson Skies both load and seemed to play OK. The main issue at the moment is that the xemu emulator does not support USB pass through, which means you need to use XBox 360 (or compatible) gamepads, rather than generic USB gamepads.

Hope this helps others