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Generally, emulation mostly runs off the CPU. With While the GPU assists by allowing for higher resolutions, anti-aliasing, and so onetc. If your CPU isn't fast enough, you will most likely be not able to emulate a system at full speed. At the very least, a Core i5-2500K or a Ryzen 3 1300X or better is recommended for high-end emulation (e.g. [[PlayStation 2|PS2]], [[Wii]]). This page will explain and state other possible choices to take, provided that the above choices are not feasible.

Emulators generally only utilize 2 cores, or with hacks, sometimes 3 or 4 cores. Thus, owning a 6 or an 8-core CPU, or one equipped with Hyper-Threading/Simultaneous-Multithreading, won't give you an advantage over a similar quad-core CPU. Although, certain exceptions such as newer system emulators (e.g: RPCS3) can utilize more cores and threads by emulating the system's thread scheduler, which allows it to use as many cores and threads as much as the game makes threads.

*Windows: XP with Service Pack 3 (32-bit) or later*macOS: Snow Leopard (10.6.3) (32-bit) or later*Linux: Distributions using kernel 3.2 (32-bit) or later

*macOS: Snow Leopard (10.6.8) (32-bit) or later*Linux: Distributions using kernel 3.13 18.124 (32-bit) or later

*macOS: Yosemite (10.10) (64-bit) or later*Linux: Distributions using kernel 4.4.6 (64-bit) or later

*Windows: XP with Service Pack 3 (32-bit) <small>(needs msvcp100.dll and msvcr100.dll in the program's directory to run, [https://imgur.com/a/fgWhs proof] also applies for XP Pro x64/64-bit)</small> or later*macOS: Leopard (10.5.8) (32-bit) or later*Linux: Distributions using kernel 2.6 (32-bit) or later

*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX200 MX100 or ATI Radeon 7000 or Intel Extreme Graphics 2 or 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 or PowerVR Kyro II or S3 DeltaChrome S4 or Trident XP4 or XGI Volari V3 or Matrox Millennium G200 or better

*macOS: Snow Leopard (10.6.8) (32-bit) or later*Linux: Distributions using kernel 2.6.39 (32 -bit) or later

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*Windows: XP with Service Pack 3 or later*macOS: Mountain Lion 98 (10.716-bit/32-bit hybrid) or later*Linux: Distributions using kernel 2.6.32 or later*CPU: Intel Pentium 4 HT MMX (P55C) @ 3.4 GHz 200 MHz or AMD K6 (NorthwoodLittle Foot) @ 233 MHz or AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Cyrix 6x86MX PR366 @ 250 MHz or IDT WinChip 240 (ClawhammerC6) @ 2 GHz 240 MHz or Rise mP6 PR366 @ 250 MHz or better*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100 GeForce2 MX100 or ATI Radeon X1050 7000 or 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 or Intel GMA 3000 Extreme Graphics or S3 Chrome S25 Matrox Millennium G400 or better*RAM: 1 GB 256 MB or more

*Windows: 2000 with Service Pack 4 (32-bit) or later*CPU: Intel Pentium D 960 2 450 (Deschutes) @ 450 MHz or AMD K6-2 550 (Chomper Extended) @ 550 MHz or Transmeta Crusoe TM5400 @ 700 MHz or VIA C3-800 (Samuel) @ 800 MHz or better*RAM: 512 MB or more ===[[Higan]]===;Minimum:*Windows: 7 with Service Pack 1 (32-bit) or later*macOS: Lion (10.7) (32-bit) or later*Linux: Distributions using kernel 3.2 (32-bit) or later*CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 @ 3.6 33 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 Phenom II X2 5600+ 560 Black Edition @ 23.9 3 GHz or better*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 FX 5100 or ATI Radeon HD 2350 PRO 9550 or Intel GMA 4500 900 or S3 Chrome 430 GT GammaChrome S14 or better

Enable the dynarec option for speedups;Recommended:*Linux: Distributions using kernel 3.18.124 (32-bit) or later*CPU: Intel Core i3-3250T @ 3 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 3.1 GHz or better