Jovianpat: His CPU is inferior to yours and his GPU is superior. Why are you telling him what works for you? It's like the apple telling an orange how to become red. Also, you completely ignored his system issue. Oye.
This definitely sounds like a system issue. Let's check the obvious things.
1. Why did you have to do a full system restore? It could be that whatever caused that issue is still going on.
2. Make sure your CPU is running at the clockspeed it should have. If your system went unstable it may have underclocked and just left it until you reset the speed back to stock. Some motherboards are like that.
3. Use a program like RealTemp to find the temperature of your CPU under load. You can use prime95 to really stress it and see how high it goes and if there are any stability problems. Be sure to record how high it goes during the tests and post them here.
4. Yes check for viruses. Especially bizzare CPU and GPU usage. If your computer is slaved to a bitmining botnet your performance is going to tank.
5. You may have a graphics driver issue. Uninstalling and reinstalling your graphics drivers wouldn't be a bad idea. An update shouldn't hurt either.
6. Try other programs and games, see if anything else is adversely affected.
Now, as for general speed advance - Your CPU sucks. So with that in mind, you are getting nearly fullspeed, so let's try this. First of all, upgrade from 4.0.2 to the latest dev version. Your CPU is crap but your GPU is pretty good, and the current dev builds are lighter on the CPU end and heavier on the GPU end, so they will be better for your system than 4.0.2. Just remember that the GPU thread limitations though so make sure you start at 1x native and go up.
Considering how slow your CPU is, I'll give you the dumb things that improve performance at the expense of graphics quality. Skip EFB Access to CPU will cut out the sand ocean effect and various other intensive effects, and should give you more of a boost. If you are desperate, turn off everything secondary that might possibly affect a performance hit, AA, AF, Per-Pixel Lighting, etc. You could try OpenMP but that probably will do nothing.
There are random reset problems with this game. Just don't use syncGPU. Ever. It's slower than single core in most circumstances, and monumentally slower than Dual Core. Your system desperately needs that speed. While resets are rare in dual core, they can happen. The resets are generally predictable and not bad, especially since Dolphin is more reliable now, so you should be able to play the game fine in Dual Core. Just keep the problem in mind.
And finally, upgrade your CPU man. You really need it. Get a good Haswell chip or something.
Bonniebear Wrote:I'm having a strange issue. *snip*
This definitely sounds like a system issue. Let's check the obvious things.
1. Why did you have to do a full system restore? It could be that whatever caused that issue is still going on.
2. Make sure your CPU is running at the clockspeed it should have. If your system went unstable it may have underclocked and just left it until you reset the speed back to stock. Some motherboards are like that.
3. Use a program like RealTemp to find the temperature of your CPU under load. You can use prime95 to really stress it and see how high it goes and if there are any stability problems. Be sure to record how high it goes during the tests and post them here.
4. Yes check for viruses. Especially bizzare CPU and GPU usage. If your computer is slaved to a bitmining botnet your performance is going to tank.
5. You may have a graphics driver issue. Uninstalling and reinstalling your graphics drivers wouldn't be a bad idea. An update shouldn't hurt either.
6. Try other programs and games, see if anything else is adversely affected.
Bonniebear Wrote:CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz
Now, as for general speed advance - Your CPU sucks. So with that in mind, you are getting nearly fullspeed, so let's try this. First of all, upgrade from 4.0.2 to the latest dev version. Your CPU is crap but your GPU is pretty good, and the current dev builds are lighter on the CPU end and heavier on the GPU end, so they will be better for your system than 4.0.2. Just remember that the GPU thread limitations though so make sure you start at 1x native and go up.
Considering how slow your CPU is, I'll give you the dumb things that improve performance at the expense of graphics quality. Skip EFB Access to CPU will cut out the sand ocean effect and various other intensive effects, and should give you more of a boost. If you are desperate, turn off everything secondary that might possibly affect a performance hit, AA, AF, Per-Pixel Lighting, etc. You could try OpenMP but that probably will do nothing.
There are random reset problems with this game. Just don't use syncGPU. Ever. It's slower than single core in most circumstances, and monumentally slower than Dual Core. Your system desperately needs that speed. While resets are rare in dual core, they can happen. The resets are generally predictable and not bad, especially since Dolphin is more reliable now, so you should be able to play the game fine in Dual Core. Just keep the problem in mind.
And finally, upgrade your CPU man. You really need it. Get a good Haswell chip or something.
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