exiledemulator: I Have tried running metal gear for ps1 through an emulator it runs it as smoothly as the actual console if not a little better I know it can run PS1 games. I Have yet to try ps2 emulation from what I've read on different forums it depends on the game the emulator is running.
Yeah it would heavily depend on the game. PS2 requires a LOT more umph than you think to make it run smooth, and i doubt any laptop is strong enough to do it. Curiously the PSP which is nearly the same graphical quality as the PS2 is far easier to emulate from what i've seen.
Also depends on what you can do to speed it up. Some hacks work on certain games and some don't. Though when you increase the resolution go high enough and the video playback gets odd and broken. And getting odd lines in the text is a little offputting too.
exiledemulator: Several people have said they always have problems with metal gear 3 even on newer AMD machines that have i7 processors.
Snake eater, i tried that and couldn't get into it. Preferred something a little more interesting like Peacekeeper.
exiledemulator: I do wish I could emulate ps3 games but that would probably make my laptop freak out.
Unlikely. Sony made their own chips for the PS3 which were a pain to program for apparently. In order to do emulation typically it's 200x the power needed to run, although recompiling can get it a lot easier, but until we have the sheer horsepower in processing it's unlikely we'll get 360/PS3 games to emulate. Curiously Gamecube/Wii is within the range but it was an issue last i tried.
exiledemulator: I've found my laptop has slow downs and some glitches with 4K type videos, it still plays but not for an extended amount of time.
Typically you have hardware or software decoding. Software would be WAAAY too slow probably. If it's glitching and slowing down it could also be memory limitations, depending on the settings used for the encoding. From what i've seen for hardware encoding (
video recorders, phones etc) they use the fastest cheapest method to make mp4 files, while if you encode it and do other settings you can actually get much better compression but takes more power to do the videos. When i was using VirtualDub the x264 codec had a '
fast decode' option when encoding, as the codec also has a frame lookaround of something like 30 frames, meaning sudden 1-2 frames of flash that would eat a lot of bandwidth for the changes, instead it can look at previous frames and find better matches. Or so i understand it. Half of video encoding is moving blocks and then adjusting them, not replacing all the pixels.
exiledemulator: I Doubt steam games could run on my laptop I wanted to test it just for the fun of it but that comes with its own problems... According to the Intel site intel 3000 is suppose to be able to run Batman Arkham for PC that is as close to PS3 emulation as this type of graphics card can get to.
Steam is merely a platform/source for games. They have really old games as well as new ones. You could easily run say the Sims. You should probably figure how powerful the machine is and then estimate what equivalent those games can be that you'd run. If it's a newer laptop, probably anything 2012 and earlier would be a good measurement, which includes a lot of games. With emulation anything 8/16bit will work just fine. (
Nes, SNES, Genesis/Mastersystem, NeoGeo, etc). I wouldn't be surprised if you in theory could play more games on that machine than you have time in your lifetime. Though that doesn't say much, there's enough music/TV/movies to run straight and never watch the same thing twice.
