Enough to run Xenoblade Chronicles?

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(11-11-2013, 04:05 AM)Shonumi Wrote:

' Wrote:I'm on 4.0.1 using HLE and Audio Framelimit, works better than Auto for me. I managed to OC to 3.7ghz, I was still getting about 21-23 frames. Then I enabled OpenCL texture decoder and I'm getting a steady 25 frames now. However, it drops to about 23 when I use arts or when there are big explosions.

You sure you switched to HLE audio? The screenshots you posted show LLE audio; that you could switch to HLE audio and not get a speed-up (even with additional oveclocking) doesn't make sense. You're not bottlenecked by your GPU since your settings show you're at the minimum basically (1x IR, no AA).

If you can run this game fullspeed, having your Framelimit set to Audio causes drops like you mentioned when using Arts. Auto gets rid of any drops, but I'm basing my experiences on running this game fullspeed at 30 FPS :p It's probably different when you're below that.

Last resort: right-click this game in Dolphin, go to Properties and check the VBeam Speed Hack. Sometimes this setting can perform magic, it's worth a shot. If nothing else works, your CPU really is too slow to run this game.

I did and you're right, I get about 10 more frames when using HLE.


And it looks like the Vbeam hack improved it a little bit as well because I'm able to reach 30 fps now. I played past the first battle and during the battle with the crab thing the fps doesn't drop at all even if I use arts.

That means it only gets ugly when there are many enemies.

(11-11-2013, 05:56 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:

xRyudo Wrote:Generally you don't need higher than 3.00 GHz for Xenoblade with 4.0. Mine runs it fine at 2.66 GHz atm (Had to go back to stock speed for my i7 920 because higher OCs would make it unstable, even the slightest OC. I guess my PSU is dying out and can't handle the higher voltages anymore).

1. Your i7 920 at 2.66 GHz is roughly equivalent to a phenom II at 3.6 GHz in dolphin. Your cpu performance should be roughly equivalent even without overclocking.
2. You're using the PAL version which is about 15% less demanding than the NTSC version.

I'll try to find a PAL copy and see if it's more playable since I'm getting around 25 fps during the Mechon battle at the start.