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<blockquote data-quote="EldarOfSuburbia" data-source="post: 265934" data-attributes="member: 4106"><p>TPA is more tied to CPU than it is to GPU, though with more recent, busier, tables, a decent GPU will help some. However it's been shown that a 750ti is probably a decent enough GPU for TPA. If you really want to be sure, get a 760 or more likely a 1060 (fair warning: 1060s are, apparently, very popular for crypto-currency mining and that has pushed the prices up).</p><p></p><p>CPU is another matter entirely, you might have a multi-core hyperthreaded CPU, but the emulation really doesn't make use of multiple cores (and why would it? for anything other than Stern's SPIKE system that's in Ghostbusters, the emulation is emulating a single-core 8 or 16-bit MPU). Ghostbusters isn't emulation, though: it's running the actual game code, compiled to run natively on your operating system. This should be better - no emulation layer! - but essentially it shows up all the bad optimization in the game code that the emulation layer would otherwise hide. In particular, the code isn't optimized to utilize more than 2 cores, again understandable because the SPIKE system has a dual-core processor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EldarOfSuburbia, post: 265934, member: 4106"] TPA is more tied to CPU than it is to GPU, though with more recent, busier, tables, a decent GPU will help some. However it's been shown that a 750ti is probably a decent enough GPU for TPA. If you really want to be sure, get a 760 or more likely a 1060 (fair warning: 1060s are, apparently, very popular for crypto-currency mining and that has pushed the prices up). CPU is another matter entirely, you might have a multi-core hyperthreaded CPU, but the emulation really doesn't make use of multiple cores (and why would it? for anything other than Stern's SPIKE system that's in Ghostbusters, the emulation is emulating a single-core 8 or 16-bit MPU). Ghostbusters isn't emulation, though: it's running the actual game code, compiled to run natively on your operating system. This should be better - no emulation layer! - but essentially it shows up all the bad optimization in the game code that the emulation layer would otherwise hide. In particular, the code isn't optimized to utilize more than 2 cores, again understandable because the SPIKE system has a dual-core processor. [/QUOTE]
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