GPU Bottleneck?

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(11-23-2013, 07:39 PM)Anti-Ultimate Wrote: You can't measure how good Dolphin will perform with CPU usage.

Dolphin needs a good IPC (Instructions per cycle). Your CPU has a pretty low IPC compared to newer i3, i5 and i7 Processors.
That's why it is so slow, and not because "Dolphin isn't making it run at 100% load".

Hi Anti-Ultimate , I don't know about actual comparison in terms of IPC, but from a MIPS (million instructions per second) perspective, new generation Core i7s (~14k MIPS) are not THAT big of a leap from the Core 2 Duo (~11k MIPS), from my numbers its approximately 30% more.

Though I don't know the exact process flow of Dolphin. But a slow processor should not limit how well Dolphin utilize the CPU. And as I pointed out in the original post release 3.5 does fully utilize my SLOW processor. Why would that be the case?

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(11-24-2013, 04:22 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: Older versions are not as precise as the latest versions, thus they aren't as demanding.
However, you may be able eek out a couple more fps by changing some things up in your settings. Please post pictures of your graphics config pages?

Yah, would it be the case that newer versions of Dolphin is more demanding on the GPU such that my nVidia GT 8600M would bottlenecks the whole process?

Because the release 3.5 can fully utilize my CPU while newer versions (4.0-rXXX) give a lower FPS and at the same time can not fully utilize my CPU.

Here are my setup for dolphin 4.0 r414: