sirkingchase Wrote:I just installed an old Geforce 250 GTS 1GB that I had laying around. Its considerably better than the 430 and rivals 650.
Axxer Wrote:The 650 should be much faster.
Axxer Wrote:I'm not too familiar with GPUs, so I wouldn't know anything about your 250 vs 430, but the 650 would destroy them both.
Axxer is right, the GTX 650 is a significantly faster card on average.
sirkingchase Wrote:And there was absolutely no difference in frame rate.
Axxer Wrote:The only reason they have similar performance in your case was because the CPU was bottle necking your GPU.
Right again (obviously).
sirkingchase Wrote:My CPU is Phenom 960t unlocked to x6, I had it conservatively overlocked it to 3.2
After reading up on Dolphin-emu, I learned that its more CPU intensive rather GPU. I overlocked my CPU to 3.8 and now Im getting steady 60 FPS.
Granted this is only Mario Kart, I will test Metroid Other M in a few days and post back with results.
This confirms the CPU bottleneck.
sirkingchase Wrote:Should I keep the 250 in it? It runs hotter and uses alot more power.
Yes, it's a much better card.
sirkingchase Wrote:I have not figured out how to use internal resolution,
It's pretty straightforward. Just change the internal resolution setting in the video backend settings.
sirkingchase Wrote:it makes everything too big, its like only seeing a corner of a screen.
Then something is very wrong. Dolphin should scale the rendered image to your selected output resolution before output no matter what you set the IR to.
What type of display are you using?
How is it hooked up to your PC?
What is your fullscreen/windowed resolution set to in dolphin?
Axxer Wrote:Dolphin is CPU intensive because of the JIT recompiler and changed one Wii CPU instruction into multiple x86 CPU instructions.
It's a bit more complicated than that but I'm sure you know that so I guess the details are unnecessary here.
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