Will Project 64 run well on... ?

[Jay.Strand]

A wonderfully cheap, yet emulator dedicated machine with:

a 2.0 GHz AMD processor
512 MB of ram (with open slots for more)
And most importantly an ATI Xpress 200 integrated graphics card.

Yes. I do with the graphics card was better, but that means spending another hundred or so bucks. This is an integrated card:confused:, I heard ATI works well with Project64 though. And if the video card simply borrows from the ram, what's to sop it from borrowing 128MB for video?

I need some advice before I buy. Thanks for any feedback or opinion.

[Alunalun]

I use a similar graphics card to the one you mention. My machine runs project 64 fine, but doesn't cope well with very high resolutions or antialiasing, although I can use them on some games. Resolutions of about 800x600 (windowed) almost always work fine. It runs the main graphics plugins fine, but not glide64.
My laptop's specs are:
32bit Vista home premium
1.73 Ghz dual-core pentium thing
1918 MB RAM
And an integrated ATI radeon xpress 200M graphics card which is similar to yours, although actually a slightly different model. I think the M stands for mobile.

[dsx!]

Project64 works fine on my netbook (1.6GHz, Intel Graphics) so a system like that would do it.

The RAM stealing shouldn't be a problem, Project64 won't use up all the remaining RAM.

[Jay.Strand]

Cool. Glad to hear that could work.

I haven't bought the computer yet. But I want it to work VERY well. So that I can use it as a multiplatform emulator/DVD player always hooked to a TV. I want it to be like actually playing N64, as authentic as possible. Its an oldish computer. Wondering if I should spend an extra 50 bucks or not.


Thanks.