Ok, after a lot of testing, I'm more confused than ever. First here are my specs.
Win 7 64x
Athlon II x2 215 2.7Ghz
3 GB of RAM
8800GS
SSE3
Now I'm not expecting miracles because I know the CPU is the lowest end of the Athlon II family, but from my research, it's also on-par if not a bit faster than the fastest Athlon 1 chips. I recall people saying they ran dolphin nicely with a Athlon 6000+.
The problem is I can run very few games at max speed. I've tried a few relatively slow (as in slow paced) games like Baten Kaitos. The game uses pre-rendered backgrounds, but whenever I exit the first house, my frame rate drops to 25fps. Even more ridiculous is that I can't run Blaster Master WiiWare at max speed, but I can run Muramasa at perfect 60fps. I can run Rune Factory Frontier nicely, but I can't run Melee at a steady 60fps. Hell, I'd be happy if I can get 80% speed when 4 characters are on screen.
I've tested the SSE3 supported builds and the regular builds. I see 0 difference in speed. I can't overclock my CPU since it's a pre-built by HP.
Now am I doing something wrong that I can't even run a 2D sprite based WiiWare game well, or is my only option a CPU upgrade?
Win 7 64x
Athlon II x2 215 2.7Ghz
3 GB of RAM
8800GS
SSE3
Now I'm not expecting miracles because I know the CPU is the lowest end of the Athlon II family, but from my research, it's also on-par if not a bit faster than the fastest Athlon 1 chips. I recall people saying they ran dolphin nicely with a Athlon 6000+.
The problem is I can run very few games at max speed. I've tried a few relatively slow (as in slow paced) games like Baten Kaitos. The game uses pre-rendered backgrounds, but whenever I exit the first house, my frame rate drops to 25fps. Even more ridiculous is that I can't run Blaster Master WiiWare at max speed, but I can run Muramasa at perfect 60fps. I can run Rune Factory Frontier nicely, but I can't run Melee at a steady 60fps. Hell, I'd be happy if I can get 80% speed when 4 characters are on screen.
I've tested the SSE3 supported builds and the regular builds. I see 0 difference in speed. I can't overclock my CPU since it's a pre-built by HP.
Now am I doing something wrong that I can't even run a 2D sprite based WiiWare game well, or is my only option a CPU upgrade?