Is Dolphin's new OpenAL worth it?

[ndsplayer19576]

So now the latest dolphin versions now require OpenAL32.dll (renamed from soft_al32.dll or something like that) and, according to the developers, it has the better sound over the other backends.

I placed this in the Everything Emulation as I was wondering if the backend itself would cause more issues trying to develop it (like Direct3D9 and 11 with Sonic Heroes) or if it would be a great success. I tried it out myself, but I wasnt very happy, and if you use the Dolby Pro Logic II decoder, no sound comes out at all even if set in-game.

I don't have a fast enough PC to test it to the limit, so I am looking out for people with faster PCs than mine which isn't good at all(system specs in signature below).

[Zorlon]

To outline things..... it depends on your hardware.....

Those with the equipment to emulate at full speed will get more use out of it

If things don't work out I'm sure they will just revise what they do for later releases

[ndsplayer19576]

To outline things..... it depends on your hardware.....

Those with the equipment to emulate at full speed will get more use out of it

If things don't work out I'm sure they will just revise what they do for later releases

Hope someone actually responds...

I won't get a new PC until my current one dies

One reason I'm asking this is because of Sonic Riders - Zero Gravity's terrible sound on DSP HLE. They're planning to make the HLE close to LLE for lots of games, making it closer towrds making people have second thoughts on piracy (since everyone wants speed and if there's no good speed at all, they quit playing often).

In the meantime, I was taking a look to see if anything worked when I used the latency effect on OpenAL, when all it did was make the sound go after the game does something (e.g. menu selection)

[Zorlon]

Buy a Wii instead and soft mod it no emulation flaws (as it's not emulation) specially if you run from a USB HDD the games will run perfect

I used my GameCube in the past via a soft mod, but that's not perfect for some games (it was due to +R/-R disc speed issues compared with retail disc speed)

Your machine is not cut out for GameCube emulation in general there may be the odd game that does not require so high specs that you can get full speed but not many, would strongly recommend a good desktop next time that you can at least upgrade rather than buying a whole new computer

[ndsplayer19576]

Buy a Wii instead and soft mod it no emulation flaws (as it's not emulation) specially if you run from a USB HDD the games will run perfect

I used my GameCube in the past via a soft mod, but that's not perfect for some games (it was due to +R/-R disc speed issues compared with retail disc speed)

Your machine is not cut out for GameCube emulation in general there may be the odd game that does not require so high specs that you can get full speed but not many, would strongly recommend a good desktop next time that you can at least upgrade rather than buying a whole new computer

I have a softmodded wii myself, and I do have a small 8GB usb I use for it, since I use cfg-loader and WBFS usb format. I'm just wondering if youre saying that I should compare the sound between the original and dolphin.

So if I was going to get a new desktop, which one would you recommend yourself? I don't want to buy a fast but expensive i5-xxxxx with an Intel graphics card, so it's all going to add up in cash for an nvidia or ATI Radeon HD as well... since my PC is a laptop.

[Zorlon]

I know your PC is a Laptop you can tell just by the stats

Build a machine yourself is the best option

But even buying a pre built machine is fine as well as long as it can have graphics/sound, cpu & memory upgradable getting a new motherboard is also an option if you take it as far as it goes but still want more as you can still use graphics cards sound cards memory ect in a new motherboard

the 3 main things are Memory Graphics and CPU

Intel is the cheap mans graphics and is not the best to be honest, N-vidia or ATI Radeon are the bester ones but you don't need to jump to those off the bat

You can start off small and make your way up, though I would still go for CPU to start with as those can epic fail when you install them

I wouldn't know what is the best budget machine for both price and performance I also could do with a desktop machine


If you are wondering though I have a 2TB drive hooked up to my Wii, currently not setup to run GC from the drive though my Wii is old enough to run direct from disc, anyway the HDD has 3 Partitions on it 2 WBFS formatted partitions for 1000 Wii games and a FAT partition used for emulators on the Wii with full SNES NES Mastersystem & Megadrive rom sets.

At some point I will re-format the 1st WBFS partition to FAT for GC games (or split it into 2 again so I have 4 partitions), just not got round to it, too busy playing on my PS3 360 and 3DS, I do tend to go back to older consoles as well though

[ndsplayer19576]

I know your PC is a Laptop you can tell just by the stats

Build a machine yourself is the best option

But even buying a pre built machine is fine as well as long as it can have graphics/sound, cpu & memory upgradable getting a new motherboard is also an option if you take it as far as it goes but still want more as you can still use graphics cards sound cards memory ect in a new motherboard

the 3 main things are Memory Graphics and CPU

Intel is the cheap mans graphics and is not the best to be honest, N-vidia or ATI Radeon are the bester ones but you don't need to jump to those off the bat

You can start off small and make your way up, though I would still go for CPU to start with as those can epic fail when you install them

I wouldn't know what is the best budget machine for both price and performance I also could do with a desktop machine


If you are wondering though I have a 2TB drive hooked up to my Wii, currently not setup to run GC from the drive though my Wii is old enough to run direct from disc, anyway the HDD has 3 Partitions on it 2 WBFS formatted partitions for 1000 Wii games and a FAT partition used for emulators on the Wii with full SNES NES Mastersystem & Megadrive rom sets.

At some point I will re-format the 1st WBFS partition to FAT for GC games (or split it into 2 again so I have 4 partitions), just not got round to it, too busy playing on my PS3 360 and 3DS, I do tend to go back to older consoles as well though

Thanks for the advice; I'll see what I can do. Although I guess my PC would die this year, since I "overuse" my PC way too much.

Also, I wonder - how did you get that my PC is a laptop? Is it because of the CPU or something? Otherwise, you just know a lot of the PCs I hardly know any

[Zorlon]

Both your CPU and GPU gave it away, specially the CPU

[47iscool]

Can Anyone Actually Tell Me The Difference Between All These
Branches Of Dolphin,Is Dolphin GIT The Original? I Just Want The Normal SVN Builds.

[ndsplayer19576]

Can Anyone Actually Tell Me The Difference Between All These
Branches Of Dolphin,Is Dolphin GIT The Original? I Just Want The Normal SVN Builds.

Each branch is a separate development section for one thing. However, the master branch is the place where every development build is released, each having similar coding with a few changes.

The original dolphin versions are the stable ones I think.

For SVN builds, you might want to google that.

[ndsplayer19576]

I'll take a look at the PC section then and see what comes out, hopefully something good.