I was wondering what were Lakkas min requirments. I would like to install it on a dell inspiron 2600 with 128mb ram and a 1.13ghz processor or on a dell xps d333 with 96 or 112mb ram(can be either). 333mhz processor. Have any of you installed on similar hardware or recommend an alternative?
You might be able to install it on something that old, but your biggest impediment will probably be video drivers, and you’ll be RAM-starved, too. You would have a better experience with a raspberry pi2 or any number of other mini-devboards that have Lakka images available.
[QUOTE=hunterk;24916]You might be able to install it on something that old, but your biggest impediment will probably be video drivers, and you’ll be RAM-starved, too. You would have a better experience with a raspberry pi2 or any number of other mini-devboards that have Lakka images available.[/QUOTE] Yeah I want a rasberry pi but would really rather a personal pc. I figured they weren’t the best options to use. I though since there the most powerful of what we have laying around it may be worth a shot. Ill try it though if I have time. This is also my first time using the forums so excuse me if I do something wrong.
No worries 
Good luck, and let us know if it turns out alright.
The drivers might be the only issues. The specs are similar to a ps2 so no biggie for snes,gen, psx, etc. Video ram might be an issue though, 16-32 meg would be the lowest I would use. TBH that set up would be ideal for nes.snes generations. I am overkilling it with an A-6 with 8 gigs of ram but I do repairs on pcs for people and people thinking I am a graveyard for old stuff
Even if Lakka is happy and the kernel has drivers for your hardware, those systems are not going to run most emulators very well, if at all. You really want to get at least something with a dual-core in order to run at full speed. Emulators around the time frame when CPSs like that were popular had all sorts of hacks implemented to run games at full speed. Obviously that not necessary these days… You should give it a shot, and report back if you can, but I have a feeling you’re not going to be too satisfied.
My eee pc 4g surf can handle emulators up to and including snes9x but not psx and other more demanding systems.
Hmm… That eee PC is most likely the one with the 900MHz Dothan based Celeron-M ULV 353.What version of SNES9x were you running though? It might be okay, even though you have a single core, it is based on the Core2Duo Yonah architecture… Even still though, I’m strongly certain you’re going to have a lot of dropped frames (with frameskip) and/or slowdowns (without it) trying to run the “optimized” SNES9x-Next core, never mind the full SNES9x with that CPU. Especially with special chip games (Yoshi’s Island, Star Fox, etc.)
The only option really, is If you use emulators with the speed hacks based on SNES9x 1.39 or 1.43; like CATSFC. In the OP’s case, they have a 1.13GHz PENTIUM 3 … It’s not going to run any modern emu’s very well at all!
OP, I suppose you could try (try being the operative word here) “slim” or “speed optimized” emu’s like:
QuickNES, or maybe FCEUmm (NES) PicoDrive (GEN/SMS) CATSFC (SNES)
Basically anything that is designed for a LOW POWER CPU, but is compatible with x86 - like the ones listed above - are what you should be trying.
Good Luck!
Sorry by bringing back to life old posts, but I have that problem too, I’m wondering how to run this on my pc. When I try it it says that could not initialize video drivers and that I have to check if my GPU is supported or something like that.
Mainboard: ASRock P4VM8 CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz RAM: 1280MB GPU: nVidia GeForce FX-5200 128MB
[QUOTE=customcarvin;25396]Hmm… That eee PC is most likely the one with the 900MHz Dothan based Celeron-M ULV 353.What version of SNES9x were you running though? It might be okay, even though you have a single core, it is based on the Core2Duo Yonah architecture… Even still though, I’m strongly certain you’re going to have a lot of dropped frames (with frameskip) and/or slowdowns (without it) trying to run the “optimized” SNES9x-Next core, never mind the full SNES9x with that CPU. Especially with special chip games (Yoshi’s Island, Star Fox, etc.)
The only option really, is If you use emulators with the speed hacks based on SNES9x 1.39 or 1.43; like CATSFC. In the OP’s case, they have a 1.13GHz PENTIUM 3 … It’s not going to run any modern emu’s very well at all!
OP, I suppose you could try (try being the operative word here) “slim” or “speed optimized” emu’s like:
QuickNES, or maybe FCEUmm (NES) PicoDrive (GEN/SMS) CATSFC (SNES)
Basically anything that is designed for a LOW POWER CPU, but is compatible with x86 - like the ones listed above - are what you should be trying.
Good Luck! :-)[/QUOTE]
I run snes9x-next as you suggest and the processor is factory-underclocked to 630MHz. Star Fox and runs just fine if I overclock my processor to real 900MHz. All other snes titles are fullspeed with 630MHz. Threaded video driver is used of course.
[QUOTE=Dr. Schnellinger;25479]Sorry by bringing back to life old posts, but I have that problem too, I’m wondering how to run this on my pc. When I try it it says that could not initialize video drivers and that I have to check if my GPU is supported or something like that.
Mainboard: ASRock P4VM8 CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz RAM: 1280MB GPU: nVidia GeForce FX-5200 128MB[/QUOTE]
Ehhh… what’s up doc?
What old posts are you talking about? …Is that a personal insult? ;p
Anyway, read this
That video card you are trying to use is a 5 (fx) series that started coming out in 2003… Basically, it’s way too old! You would have to switch it out in order to get proper driver support; it would have to be replaced with AT LEAST an “8 series” (8xxx) GPU - as this was Nvidia’s first card series to implement unified shaders.
The 2nd problem you have is that the mainboard you’re using does not have a PCI-EXPRESS slot for GPU. It uses a legacy AGP… Which Nvidia STOPPED making cards for with the 7 (7xxx) Series. 
The only other option would be to get a “regular” or legacy PCI slot (not express) video card if you want to use that board. Unfortunately, good old supply and demand takes hold here and you’re going to pay a decent amount for a card like that. This is the only thing I could dig up that is somewhat affordable, and still being manufactured:
ZOTAC ZT-60604-10L GeForce GT 610 512MB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI Video Card
You might have better luck on fleaBay with a used card?? …Feel like testing your luck?
I don’t know what else to tell you… start saving for a new system? I mean, for the price they’re asking for that card alone, you are more than half-way to a Celeron Chromebox. Which despite being low power and less than half of that P4’s clock speed, would murderlize that P4! …even with one core tied behind it’s back 
The Celeron Chromebox would actually do okay against that Fermi GT 610 too, believe it or not. Especially since that 610 would be installed in a legacy PCI slot; on an old board which still uses the mainboard’s southbridge for most data communications; meaning, that GT 610 would NEVER, I mean NEVER hit 100% of the chips potential because of the PCI bus bandwidth limitations.
Let us know what you decide to do doc. And good luck!
[QUOTE=customcarvin;25540]Ehhh… what’s up doc?
What old posts are you talking about? …Is that a personal insult? ;p
Anyway, read this
That video card you are trying to use is a 5 (fx) series that started coming out in 2003… Basically, it’s way too old! You would have to switch it out in order to get proper driver support; it would have to be replaced with AT LEAST an “8 series” (8xxx) GPU - as this was Nvidia’s first card series to implement unified shaders.
The 2nd problem you have is that the mainboard you’re using does not have a PCI-EXPRESS slot for GPU. It uses a legacy AGP… Which Nvidia STOPPED making cards for with the 7 (7xxx) Series.
The only other option would be to get a “regular” or legacy PCI slot (not express) video card if you want to use that board. Unfortunately, good old supply and demand takes hold here and you’re going to pay a decent amount for a card like that. This is the only thing I could dig up that is somewhat affordable, and still being manufactured:
ZOTAC ZT-60604-10L GeForce GT 610 512MB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI Video Card
You might have better luck on fleaBay with a used card?? …Feel like testing your luck?
I don’t know what else to tell you… start saving for a new system? I mean, for the price they’re asking for that card alone, you are more than half-way to a Celeron Chromebox. Which despite being low power and less than half of that P4’s clock speed, would murderlize that P4! …even with one core tied behind it’s back
The Celeron Chromebox would actually do okay against that Fermi GT 610 too, believe it or not. Especially since that 610 would be installed in a legacy PCI slot; on an old board which still uses the mainboard’s southbridge for most data communications; meaning, that GT 610 would NEVER, I mean NEVER hit 100% of the chips potential because of the PCI bus bandwidth limitations.
Let us know what you decide to do doc. And good luck![/QUOTE]
I have a similar set up with 4gb of ram and a radeon 9550 256mb agp card. shall we have another round of CAN. IT. RUN!?!?!?!?
When we will uprade Lakka to OpenELEC 6.0, there will be a special build called Nvidia Legacy. For this kind of cards. But don’t expect us to upgrade so soon, because they dropped 32bit and BIOS support in 6.0.