screwball69 Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 A friend of mine wants me to set up a system with Launchbox for him, he doesn't have piles of cash so I was wondering what my best option is for something I can stick under a TV and run up to about PS2 era stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 PS2 era is tricky since it can be such a CPU hungry emulator. While it doesn't have the level of power needed for something like Cemu to run smoothly it does require something fairly good. You will probably want something that is at least 3 GHz plus a dedicated graphics card if you want to do any of the graphical enhancement stuff like resolution scaling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screwball69 Posted June 21, 2017 Author Share Posted June 21, 2017 If I were to limit it to say N64/Ps1 era? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 You can definitely come down quite a bit in the hardware requirements. I guess the next question is what sort of budget does your friend have in mind and how small does it have to be ? My HTPC setup while it isn't compact since its on old PC and it handles PS1 using ePSXe without problems. Its an old eMachine that's got got an AMD cpu running at 2.4 GHz, 2 Gigs of Ram and I threw my old Radeon 7800 series graphics card in it with 1 gig of ddr5 vram for shaders. I have't tried any N64 stuff on it but I would imagine Project64 would be fine with it. The Retroarch PS1 core is too much for it and probably the N64 core might be a bit too much for it as well, I haven't tried. This machine also handles BigBox fine with some tweaks made to it like turning off animations and stuff. Check out this performance post I made here, I go over the tweaks I made and you will probably want a relatively curated games list. My collection on it is just over 2500 games so no 10,000 plus games and complete libraries on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screwball69 Posted June 21, 2017 Author Share Posted June 21, 2017 Size isnt a issue, his budget is about 2-500, Yeah I could see Mendafen being a hog since its much more accurate. I'll defintley check out that post since BigBox has a tendency to chug on one of my laptops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 BigBox can chug but like I state in that performance thread it can run just fine with some tweaking like turning off animations and dialing down the image quality to medium. And you have to tune your system by disabling the unnecessary garbage on the system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screwball69 Posted June 21, 2017 Author Share Posted June 21, 2017 Totally, Probably doesnt help I have my setup loaded with Hyperspin videos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Yeah, things like that could slow it down. I know there has been talks of either a more performance friendly version of Launchbox or maybe some presets to quick adjust to "performance mode" but I haven't heard anything on it lately so don't take it as a for sure thing. Though with the latest beta using .NET 4.7 it made some performance gains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screwball69 Posted June 21, 2017 Author Share Posted June 21, 2017 Yeah I remember Jason talking about that, once I have all my LaunchBox setups where I like them I might toy with the beta branch but for now I'm sticking with the main updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Most likely the next official release will be using .NET 4.7 so wait for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mothergoose729 Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 (edited) There was a similar thread posted elsewhere on the forums. Might give you some ideas. If you buy used hardware locally you can get starter PC for somewhere in the 2-500 range. if you buy new, the barrier to entry is about 400$. A starter PC like the on in the link will play at least some games from the psx2/dolphin and others at full speed, and will chug through ps1 and n64 games no problem. Edited June 21, 2017 by mothergoose729 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 There have been no shortage of these threads to be quite honest. A few searches will give you a ton of information. At a certain point, Myself and the other mods are just repeating ourselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screwball69 Posted June 23, 2017 Author Share Posted June 23, 2017 Such is life on any forum. If it's asked that often you could make a sticky, just sayin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Even when we do, people still ignore it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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