(03-02-2012, 04:52 AM)nicodemus Wrote: so, which version of dolphin should i be using here? abe's 3.0-370 or the older 3.0_71? what's the difference between the two?
I have tried those 2 and 3.0-424 HLE hack, and for me 3.0-72 is the winner. It has the best visual fidelity and performance out of the 3. It runs at 25 fps most of the time while sometimes dropping to 23 in battles, so nothing major. Your hardware should run it at max fps all the time. I have no hacks enabled from the default except "texture cache" at rightmost value. Running it at 4x native resolution. 3x native and 4x SSA gives better quality but I lose too much fps by doing this. You should experiment with this as it's easy to do as you can see the changes immediately when running the game.
I cannot comment about crashes of 370 or 424 as I haven't played with them enough. 72 has crashed twice on my 25 hours save, and both of them were on Bionis' Leg, though this could be pure coincidence, so you should save more often when on that area.