game cube help

hdsarcade

hi
i want to make batocera just for gamecube.
what is the lowest hardware i can use ?
and should i chose 64x or 32x

hdsarcade

i use the x64version
e8400
4gbram
610gt 1gb
its running very slow
i saw a vid that "eta prime" use the same specs (with lower graphic card) and he had better performence
any help?

pceslayer

hdsarcade
Did you ever get this squared away? The Nvidia GT 610 is a pretty craptasticly low end card, but it should still work. Your CPU supports 64bit instructions so the x64 build should be the better choice(it also emulates more systems).

Did you try enabling the Nvidia graphics driver by editing the batocera-boot.conf in the boot partition? Your GT 610 looks to be too old and is not listed as supported in the latest Nvidia driver so you may be out of luck with 5.26. There is an unofficial build of batocera 5.25 using old Nvidia drivers for older graphics cards.

Looks like it has been discontinued, but this should still work for you:
https://forum.batocera.org/d/1851-batoceralinux-525-with-nvidia-legacy-drivers-390xx-discontinued

beastieboy

For me, the integrated Intel graphics card proven to work way better than any Nvidia GPU I tried. Looks that there are really good drivers included in Batocera. I use Asus H110I-PLUS with i3 CPU.

pceslayer

beastieboy
A Nvidia GPU (unless really really realy old) should almost always outperform an integrated GPU. That is unless you are pairing a really really old Nvidia GPU with a modern CPU.

I could see this also being true if your Nvidia GPU was dropped from support in the latest drivers and you need to run a build of batocera that has the old drivers that support your card.

What Nvidia GPU were you using?

LordNikon

One way to reduce the slowness is to disable the Shaders, the perfect pixels and the Bezels, I don’t know why, but they generate quite slow, especially in Intel integrated videos.

chrisz2012

I run GameCube games at their native resolution of 640×480 in 4:3. I get around 60 FPS at this standard GC on i3-6100U Intel NUC with 4GB of RAM. A fully loaded NUC that I have used runs about $200-$250 online.

I’d go with a NUC 6th Gen Intel or higher. And go with an i3 or higher because GameCube seems to be totally doable on my $200 box.