The 24" 2006 iMacs had slotted GPUs and they could be easily replaced (but not upgraded) but the 17" and 20" (I have a 20") has a soldered GPU and you have to be really talented to replace the GPU yourself.Īs for there being another GPU inside these iMacs, I highly doubt it. Every post I find on the Internet about these iMacs with failing GPUs show that Apple wouldn't replace them for free even though they were defective and still under warranty, and when the logic boards were replaced (for like $500 or so, maybe more) the issues would surface again a few months to a year later. Well, Apple would have been responsible for offering warrantied replacements, but I don't think they ever acknowledged the problem with these iMacs. They probably included a crappy iGPU on the motherboard so people couldn't come and ask for a replacement. Especially since they don't make dedicated graphics cards. It's more a case of AMD actually trying to shove decent gpus in the package ^^ intel iGPUs have been around for a while, but they prefer to dedicate most of the effort to the cpu. But, hers would render video much faster than mine, and her GPU has CUDA cores (as it's NVIDIA) which are also useful for rendering.Īlso, I edited my previous post, and because you replied while I was editing it, I'm not sure if you saw it. Her computer averaged 29 FPS and I average 35. I tried a comparison with my laptop versus hers with Skyrim, on my 1080p display. Despite her having a superior processor than me I do have better graphics performance because my laptop supports CrossFire. My mother has a laptop with a Haswell i7 (Not sure of the exact model) and this CPU also features a similar idea to the APU, but she also has a separate dedicated GPU like me, also with 2GB of video memory, but I'm unsure of the model. I think it was AMD that pioneered the GPU on CPU design, and Intel tried to do something similar. It's just a fun little thing.īare in mind the GPUs used in APUs are superior to intel's so it may not have been the worse choice for the money. Yes, I do have an actual PS2 that works perfectly fine, but I want to try running games in emulation because more than often I'm interested in getting them to run on my computer. All the other games I try however, are unplayable.ĭoes anyone have any suggestions? As I said, I've tried a lot of emulation settings and nothing really seems to improve for the bulk of my PS2 games. The only game I've been able to really get playable was Scooby Doo! Night of 100 Frights, and as you might expect the performance was still a bit iffy, being slow or fast in some areas, but for the most part rather playable. I've tried messing around with all of the emulation settings and the DirectX settings but I only see very small differences in performance and compatibility with the vast majority of my games. One is dedicated, that's for sure, but I don't know if the APU graphics processor would be considered to be dedicated, even if it does have an additional 512MB of dedicated video memory. I tried PCSX2 on my HP Compaq dc7600 which has a 3.0GHz Pentium 4, but as expected there was no improvement in PCSX2's performance, especially since the Pentium 4 is a single core and that computer lacks a dedicated GPU, whereas my laptop, technically speaking, has two GPUs. This might be a problem related to my processor's base clock of 2.3GHz, whereas PCSX2 wants a clock of at least 2.6GHz. It's not laggy, it's just slow, like slow motion. ↓Īnyhow, the general performance in most PS2 games I try is all the same in that they have extremely fast menus (way too fast) and extremely slow gameplay. If you're interested in knowing my laptop's specs, those that are important to PCSX2's performance are in the attachment below. Unfortunately, the difference in PCSX2's playability between the two systems is not much different.įor example, the comparison between the two is in the attachments below. I figured that once I moved to my laptop, which is much more powerful than my previous computer, it'd probably play better. I've been messing around with the PCSX2 PlayStation 2 emulator for a long time now, since about 2009, but I have never been able to get it to run games acceptably.
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