Ok so I've been playing my Wii games on Dolphin for a few months now, excellent emulator. In the general configuration I've always had the framelimit set to 'auto,' and never messed with it before. It was frustrating to only be able to play the Mario Galaxy's, etc... at only 1.5x-2x IR w/ LLE, limited AF, and no AA and still have slowdown, because I feel I have a pretty powerful system.
Last night I messed around w/ the framelimit setting in hopes of "unleashing" my system, and boy did it ever. I was really blown away by the difference. By changing the framelimit to off, and then 60 for NTSC, I was able to run Super Mario Galaxy 2 w/ DSP-LLE @ 4x IR w/ 16x AF and 4x, and even gave 8x AA a shot, and the game basically ran flawlessly. Occassionally there would be a brief audio 'click' or a 2-3 fps drop, but nothing very noticeable. It was leaps and bounds better than playing on 'auto,' which I had been playing up to this point @ 1.5x IR w/ low AF enabled to make the FPS good. I played a couple of levels w/ the new settings w/ no problems whatsoever. Surely improving performance can't be this easy, and I must be sacrificing some stability or something?
P.S. - I am using the latest dev build as of last night.
Last night I messed around w/ the framelimit setting in hopes of "unleashing" my system, and boy did it ever. I was really blown away by the difference. By changing the framelimit to off, and then 60 for NTSC, I was able to run Super Mario Galaxy 2 w/ DSP-LLE @ 4x IR w/ 16x AF and 4x, and even gave 8x AA a shot, and the game basically ran flawlessly. Occassionally there would be a brief audio 'click' or a 2-3 fps drop, but nothing very noticeable. It was leaps and bounds better than playing on 'auto,' which I had been playing up to this point @ 1.5x IR w/ low AF enabled to make the FPS good. I played a couple of levels w/ the new settings w/ no problems whatsoever. Surely improving performance can't be this easy, and I must be sacrificing some stability or something?
P.S. - I am using the latest dev build as of last night.
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