(01-16-2014, 05:36 PM)Shonumi Wrote:Nuji Wrote:Anyway, would upgrading my GPU help at all? I have been looking at possibly a AMD R7 260X, but from past experience I know that AMD's Linux drivers are utterly crap.
Not really. Like I said before, it's not the bottleneck in this case. The two chief ways to bottleneck Dolphin on the GPU are 1) raise the IR too high and/or 2) raise the amount of AA too high. If you're not doing this, then you don't have to worry about the GPU. You have a CPU bottleneck, so only a better CPU will help. Personally, I would wait a while before upgrading to an AMD GPU if you're primarily a Linux user. They have gotten a great deal better than ATI ever was, and they're more or less stable nowadays, but I'm hoping SteamOS urges them to get things up to Nvidia and Intel's level. Again, just opinion, and for the record, I have never used AMD GPUs on Linux, so there's your grain of salt :p
Nuji Wrote:Also, my FPS for Dolphin is much worse on Windows 7 Home x64 for some reason..
That's because Linux rocks. Digressing, remember that you're still using two separate drivers on Linux vs. Windows, even though you have the same piece of hardware (GTX 550 Ti). I've heard (there's that grain of salt again) that Nvidia's OpenGL performance on Linux generally tops Windows' performance. If you're using the latest revisions, OpenGL is generally getting faster than D3D as well, so that may account for the difference. Plus, Linux rocks.
Linux/Ubuntu is ok. I've used it on and off since 2008 when Vista screwed everyone lol. AMD's drivers as of about 3 months ago were still crap for Ubuntu 12.04.