Dolphin was a pretty mixed bag at the time. I got through Xenoblade Chronicles on that system, but I remember one of the regions on the mechonis(?) would only do like 7fps at best, but other areas would do 20-30. But monkeyball worked pretty well, as did some of the other GameCube games.

But I was using that system when Sandy Bridge was already out, and still using it when Haswell came out, because I was a broke student. So the software may have been a little more developed than when you were messing around with it.

Also I don’t think the e8400, or any of the core 2 duo/quad cpu’s had hyperthreading. I know the Pentium 4 had it, not sure about the Pentium D

I’m pretty sure I got through persona 3 on that core 2 system. Either an e8400 or q6600. I swapped back and forth a couple times because turns out quad core wasn’t a straight upgrade at the time.

Some great improvements!

Also, thats the first time I’ve looked at the recommended specs in a long time. They’re reasonable, but man I remember running pcsx2 on a Core 2 Duo back in the day lol

I still get flashbanged every time I see “gulf of America” on Google Maps. The list of stuff to unfuck once he’s out of office is so long, I wonder how long that’ll take to fix.

Even setting my vpn to Canada doesn’t entirely free me of that

I just hope this one isn’t ray tracing only.

I still remember the disappointment of accidentally downloading the raytraced version of exodus and having to download the normal version overnight. I still don’t have a raytracing capable GPU, but it’s been absolutely fine for anything where raytracing isn’t a hard requirement.

I’ve heard Riot Rhythm by Sleigh Bells on fucking Fox News