iceman1981 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 built a hyperspin upright a while back and was looking to make something a bit smaller like a bartop. i have an old acer laptop that i planned on using. Specs: processor : intel core 2 duo T5250 @ 1.5 , 1.5 ram 2 GB gpu: mobile intel 965 express chipset has vista on it now with a small hdd. i have a spare hdd and might be able to get 32bit windows 7 or even downgrade to XP, did a test run of just hyperspin, no media emulators or roms and things are stuttering, played around in the optimizer and i can't seem to get it to run any smoother. should i waste my time trying to use hyperspin or try another more lightweight FE? I do have a sub for emumovies and hyperspin platinum so changing would be a waste.... btw- only looking to do : NES , SNES, Sega , maybe GBA and GBC one other option is i have a rasberry pi2 on its way so i can use just the lcd but AFAIK you can't get HS on pi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMPLYAUSTIN Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Im not very good with the lower end stuff. I have never really ggone that way. However in theory I think you "should" be ok. You may have to take a hit on some of the bells and whistles. By you saying played in Optimizer, I am guessing the one in HyperHQ? Turn off all the crap and just keep it as basic. As for OS... well, double edge sword. Im guessing your on a 64bit based OS at the mo with Win7. With XP I guess you would (Unless hacked) be working off a 32Bit system this may then have a knock on effect with a few things, although very do'able Although specs are low... the real issue I see if the GPU. Very weak Although HS hardly needs anything, it may actually be struggling to display, never mind render. Again, Im no good with lower end PC stuff and HS. But maybe you could knock the reolution of your Desktop right down to free some resources?? Aslo make sure the drivers are up to date. Also see if you can puch some more power either throught he GPU settings or the CPU... but I guess this will be hard with a PC like this Other than all that mate... I cant help ya Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceman1981 Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 so vista is 32 bit on here, graphics def the bottleneck and have the res set to 800x600 16bit, optimizer in hyperHQ- i didn't turn everything off, but when i did things do load okay, i did read a section on hardware acceleration but can't find any setting to turn it off. in display properties it says "your current display driver does not allow changes to be made to hardware acceleration settings". although i do have an extra settings manager but no acceleration settings. direct x is version 10, not sure if that needs to be upgraded or acceleration needs to be tweeked within there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerurver Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Iceman, Its possible! make sure you get a hand on a XP light version(about 95 mb) and stay stick to the old HL, not RL this is a performance eater. i think you can do al the systems you request with that hardware. a 32 bit is good enough! Greets, Ger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
32assassin Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 built a hyperspin upright a while back and was looking to make something a bit smaller like a bartop. i have an old acer laptop that i planned on using. Specs: processor : intel core 2 duo T5250 @ 1.5 , 1.5 ram 2 GB gpu: mobile intel 965 express chipset btw- only looking to do : NES , SNES, Sega , maybe GBA and GBC if you are only planing to run this systems the processor is sufficient, what is not sufficient is the ram, you should upgrade to at least 4G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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