Dolphin questions

rpglord · (This post was last modified: 12-09-2012, 08:54 PM by rpglord.)

Yeah put memory enchance to standard, it can only cause instability, you wont see pefromance increase.
You can put pci-e to auto, mainboard wont overclock it, it will try to keep at 100 mhz, maybe 101 or 99

robertul · (This post was last modified: 12-09-2012, 09:05 PM by robertul.)

Update: I have tried to overclock it and set it up to 400 MHz(CPU Host Clock Control), set SPD Memory Multiplier to 2.00, which is 800 MHz, because if I leave it on auto, it sets it to over 900 MHz, set performance enhance to standard, locked up PCI-E freq on 100 MHz and auto for voltage optimize, and then it shut down automatically after saving the settings, and then turned back on, and when I went to BIOS, it reverted itself automatically back >> PCI-E frequency to auto, disabled host clock control and so on, it's obvious that it doesn't support 400 MHz overclock, so I guess I might leave it the way it is as stability is a lot more important to me than getting a few fps. Because, as you said, you need to heavily overclock an Core i5 2500K CPU in order to get playable speeds, so overclocking it a little might give me some fps, but it isn't that important to me if stability is not guaranteed and besides, who cares about a few fps if it is that plain slow? So, might as well leave it the way it is. If I can't get better hardware, there is nothing I could do. Perhaps I will play it without audio, because without audio it gives me an extra 4-5 fps, so it is fine for me, I got used to it(of course, multi player is sucking bad and I have to be really, really patient, but I hope it won't have many multi player matches on attitude era mode so I can play it well, because that is what matters to me, plus I got used to it with frame skipping, without frame skipping I cannot play it, it's simply not playable, it sucks).
So, if anyone can guide me to overclock it to be stable and get a decent fps increase, I might try it, if you don't know then I will leave it the way it is and try to play with audio turned off or give up on it........
One more thing that I would like to tell you, is that I discovered that the game works best with OpenGL backend, Direct3D 11 it the slowest and Direct3D 9 is the same as OpenGL in speed but it is lagging sometimes, plus, it has many glitches, as it says, on the performance guide, Direct3D 9 may be the fastest, but it is less accurate but can have major glitches with some games and speed can drop much sometimes and it sucks. So, I have found out that OpenGL backend to be as fast or even better than Direct3D 9. Direct3D 11 is good also, no glitches, but it is slower than OpenGL, so, I don't use it.

rpglord · 12-09-2012, 09:01 PM **#13**

Its your motherboard, its crappy, it cant support overclocking because it cant keep pci-e at 100mhz...have a look here :
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-251641_11_0.html

robertul · 12-10-2012, 05:17 AM **#14**

(12-09-2012, 09:01 PM)rpglord Wrote: Its your motherboard, its crappy, it cant support overclocking because it cant keep pci-e at 100mhz...have a look here :
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-251641_11_0.html

Yes, that's actually where I learnt to lock my PCI-E so that it won't get higher when set to auto. I have done my research. As you saw there, someone there from gigabyte said 100-110 MHz is a safe range for P31 motherboards. Anyway, I will try with that calculation FSB/3.33 so I will know what PCI-E frequency I will need to set in order to overclock. Thank you guys for all, and if you have any advice to give me then feel free to tell me, if not, then someone can close this thread. Either way, I wish thank you all for your time helping me and I wish you all the best.

Best regards,
Robert Andrei Botezat

lamedude · 12-10-2012, 04:23 PM **#15**

The 440BX doesn't have a 1/2 divider for the AGP bus so when using a 133MHZ FSB so you need to get a GeForce wait this isn't 1999. Why isn't that PCIe bus locked down?

robertul · 12-10-2012, 04:58 PM **#16**

(12-10-2012, 04:23 PM)lamedude Wrote: The 440BX doesn't have a 1/2 divider for the AGP bus so when using a 133MHZ FSB so you need to get a GeForce wait this isn't 1999. Why isn't that PCIe bus locked down?

I don't understand what you are saying. May you please rephrase?

robertul · (This post was last modified: 12-11-2012, 05:53 AM by robertul.)

(12-10-2012, 04:58 PM)robertul Wrote:
(12-10-2012, 04:23 PM)lamedude Wrote: The 440BX doesn't have a 1/2 divider for the AGP bus so when using a 133MHZ FSB so you need to get a GeForce wait this isn't 1999. Why isn't that PCIe bus locked down?

I don't understand what you are saying. May you please rephrase? My GPU is PCI-E, not AGP, AGP is discontinued, replaced by PCI-E. What are you talking about?

**AnyOldName3** · 12-11-2012, 03:27 AM **#18**

Dat ain't how you're supposed to do quotes.

robertul · (This post was last modified: 12-13-2012, 09:26 PM by robertul.)

(12-11-2012, 03:27 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: Dat ain't how you're supposed to do quotes.

Yeah, well, I got caught up trying to edit my post many times and it didn't got to my attention that I made a mistake and put my comment into quote. Well, thank you for opening my eyes. I corrected it know. I will have to pay more attention next time. Have a nice day! :-)

So, may you close this thread, because there is no point in keeping it open, as I cannot do anything besides upgrading my hardware or overclock, but I don't want to mess with that, besides no one can really help me here. Thank you for your time and have a nice day! :-)

Best regards,
Robert Andrei Botezat

robertul · 12-17-2012, 08:37 PM **#20**

So, has anybody read what I written above? Please, do so and tell me what should I do or close this thread. Thank you!