(11-23-2013, 01:20 PM)Sonicadvance1 Wrote: Those years of Macbooks are actually pretty terrible when it comes to bandwidth limitations. The GPU is connected via either a PCI or a PCI-E 1x bus depending. This has severe bandwidth limitations just due to that interface.
Hey Sonicadvance1, good point about the graphics card bandwidth, I never thought about it from that perspective. But I checked my macbook pro, based on system information, it says that it uses a PCI-e 16x connection.
Any other thoughts or tests, to figure out what is limiting the performance?
(11-23-2013, 11:57 AM)admin89 Wrote: You do know Core 2 duo technology is so old (2009) , right ? Compare to latest gen CPU , Core 2 duo is just like Pentium 4Hey Admin89, actually my laptop is a early 2008 model
Latest Dolphin is whole lot more demanding than older version like Dolphin 3.5 ( accuracy = loss performance )
Your GPU - GT 8600M is fine for 2x Internal Resolution (720p) . Maximum Anisotropic Filtering : 16x should be do-able even on a weaker GPU like intel GMA4500
Your CPU is too weak for most game . Get a better system (recommend : 4th gen Core i5/i7 like i5 4670k desktop or i7 4700MQ mobile ) if you want to use latest Dolphin !
.I get where you are coming from, I am by no means trying to say that my laptop setup is even up-to-date. But here is my thought process, and why I am confused.
I have a desktop running Core i3-3225 with only the integrated Intel HD 4000 as graphics. Even with my desktop setup, the CPU would need to run as 100% capacity with all 2 (4 virtual) cores.
Now we look at a less powerful Core 2 Duo T9300 with a nVidia GT 8600M. According to what you said and what the graphics card guide showed, it should be more than enough to run Dolphin at 1xIR with no filters and post-processing.
If the graphics card is not limiting Dolphin, then what is preventing dolphin from utilizing the full CPU potential.
Unless the CPU is more than capable of processing all the needs of Dolphin with capacity to spare. Which I really doubt a 5 year old duo core processor is more powerful than and 1 year old "quad" core.
Yah,
