(11-11-2017, 12:55 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: Turning off hyperthreading is very unlikely to help. The only time Hyperthreading is a disadvantage is when the OS puts two threads that compete for the same parts of a CPU core on the same CPU core, and modern OSes are good at not doing that when there are spare cores. I'd leave it on.
As no-one's mentioned it yet, I'm going to recommend switching from 5.0 to a more recent development build as there are gazillions of fixes and you're going to end up having a nicer time.
In conclusion, you're almost certainly seeing a CPU bottleneck. If you want to make this obvious, use task manager to set the affinity of Dolphin subprocesses to specific cores, and you'll see one of them is maxed out.
Already have mine set to Max Performance in NVCP.
Here, I locked Dolphin to two cores, seeing 80% on both cores in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance.
(11-14-2017, 08:12 AM)Peter Njeim Wrote: It seems as though your CPU is comparable to a low-end current gen CPU. I don't know why you're claiming your PC is high-end, sure the GTX 1070 is nice, but my GT 640M can handle 2x IR on Wii games. Dolphin's GPU requirements are so low, that your emulation performance almost only depends on the CPU, and as these benchmarks suggest, your CPU is very old.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Int...4602vs3930
I'm playing at 5x internal.
Userbenchmark is notoriously unreliable.
My PC is high end, the CPU alone is $400 and the mobo is $250. Plus 16GB of RAM (took 4 out because it was causing parity issues), and 5TB of storage, certainly high end. Actually seeing a GPU bottleneck in most games that can use all my cores like F4 and GTA5, GPU is always at 100%, in fallout 4 my CPU maxes at 35% and in GTA 5 it uses it a lil more at 70%.
Saying my PC is not high end is like saying a 2004 Corvette isn't fast. Sure, some of the hardware is old, but it still plays every game I own at my native resolution without problems. My library has increased so much because I can actually run these games now.
So what you're saying is that Dolphin is the problem, not my PC, because Dolphin doesn't care about high core counts. I feel bad for people with the Xeon Phi 7210. Dolphin must suck.
Well, I'm off to try Dolphin 3.5, probably works better than 5.0 with less slowdowns.