This specification will be sufficient for you to enjoy most compatible
games with good graphics, sound and control, subject to correct configuration
and some limitations of the emulator. You are likely to suffer some performance
problems, and you will not be able to use all the options in the emulator.
- Operating system (No support for Windows 2000 and below)
- Microsoft Windows 7 and up / Microsoft Windows XP for XP Build
- CPU
- Intel or AMD processor
with at least SSE2 support
- Graphics card
- DirectX 8 capable
(Jabo's Direct3D8)
- OpenGL 3.3 capable
(Icepir8sLegacyLLE/GLideN64)
the plugins contain SSE optimisations, early Athlons did not
have SSE.
The video device must be a primary device, have at least
16MB local memory and two texture units. Depending on the features supported
by your video card some content may not be displayed correctly and thus some
games marked as compatible may suffer glitches or not be playable on your system.
The exact features required vary from game to game.
nVidia GeForce256 and ATI Radeon (early models)
are suggested as realistic minimum video hardware. In conjunction with good
quality drivers they have the required features. Newer cards mainly allow better
resolutions, filtering, anti-aliasing and so on.
The following chipsets (thus any and all graphics cards based
on them) can be considered below minimum specification:
- 3dfx Voodoo 1,2,3 (1,2 - not at all, 3 - poor image quality)
- ATI Rage128, Rage Pro (poor image quality)
- Intel i740, i810 (poor image quality)
- Matrox G200, G400, G450 (poor image quality)
- nVidia Riva128 (poor image quality)
- S3 Savage 4, Savage 2000 (particularly bad, these cards hang)
An explanation of why these cards are
not capable of producing good quality images in Project64.
You may find that Project64 usable on a lower-specification system than described
here, particularly with some games and careful configuration. If so then enjoy,
but please don't expect too much.