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Help running Wind Waker
06-29-2014, 03:34 AM
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I was trying to run Wind Waker on default settings, and ended up with frequent drops to about 20fps (~66%). My CPU (Intel Core i5 3330) was running at 2.97 gHz with Intel HD Graphics. I know I can mess around with the settings, but from what I've tried, all setting modifications have resulted in identical performances.

I don't plan on overclocking and I don't plan on upgrading my CPU right now, though, from what I understand, my PC should be able to run it at playable speeds/full speed. Is there anything I can do to improve my performance with the PC I have?
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06-29-2014, 05:28 AM
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What build are you using? I think you should update to the latest development builds if you haven't, you won't regret it.
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06-29-2014, 10:46 AM
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CPU: Intel Core i5 3330 @ 3.0 gHz
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 2500
RAM: Generic 8GB DDR3

I actually tried using Dolphin 3.0 (I've heard it's less demanding), and that seemed to help, I'm getting full speed for around the beginning of the game versus the speeds I was getting mentioned in the OP, so that's good I guess.
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06-29-2014, 11:51 AM
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It´s less demanding because it´s more buggy. Actual builds are a lot faster than that one.
Rig 1: Windows 10 Home | AMD A6-1450 @ 600/1000/1400 MHz | AMD Radeon HD Graphics 8250 | 4GB RAM | HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11.

Rig 2: Windows 10 Pro | Intel Core i7-2640M @ 780/2800/3500 MHz | Intel HD 3000 Mobile | 8GB RAM | Dell Latitude 6320.
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06-29-2014, 11:56 AM
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No, it's not less demanding.

Newest builds are fastest now.
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06-29-2014, 05:26 PM
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That actually depends on the instructions your PC uses.

e.g. a Core 2 Duo won't see any speedups but a Haswell surely will. I think this applies to Ivy Bridge too.

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06-29-2014, 05:28 PM
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What? I'm using Athlon II and I see speedups. That's the same age as Core 2 Duo.
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06-29-2014, 05:33 PM
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No idea why this happens, but I'm pretty sure Core 2 X's do not see any speedups. Might be that the Athlon 2 supports instructions the Core 2's don't.

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06-29-2014, 05:37 PM
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That probably isn't so. Well, actually, they do support some historical instruction sets from AMD that I don't think would be very helpful to dolphin, but that's it.
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06-29-2014, 05:52 PM
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The new builds are more optimized even for older CPUs. It's just better code. Sure, Haswell PCs have a few paths they can take that older PCs can't, but, the code the older computers take are also optimized better.
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