Try with all the games you can, and then post your results and the settings you used for each one. We can easily help you decide wich one fits best for all your games (or at least a mayor proportion of them).
How do you guys figure out optimal settings for each game?
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09-03-2013, 08:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-03-2013, 08:48 AM by smoothrunes.)
F-Zero was a bit wonky. The frame rate would randomly drop from 60 to the high 30's during races. Metroid Prime seemed unstable to say the least. The frame rate fluctuated between 60-50 and the audio went mad during the Parasite Queen fight. TimeSplitters 2 had the best run, with pretty much a constant 60 throughout gameplay.
EDIT: This was with the same settings that I was using for Twin Snakes earlier with the changes you suggested. 09-03-2013, 09:00 AM
Time Splitters 2 is an incredibly light game, so you shouldn't have any trouble with it. It's a great game that runs on just about any hardware
F-Zero is a demanding game, and certain points in Metroid Prime are as well. I would advise you OC your CPU. Read up online how to do it if you're unsure, watch your temps, voltages, and system stabity, and then you'll be fine. I've never OCed any desktop CPU until my i5-2500K; couldn't have been easier either. You can set your graphical settings higher though. If you're using DX11 or OGL, try increasing the IR to 3x and adding some MSAA. For D3D9 I'd just go with 4x IR. Your GPU should be more than enough for most games, but if you ever feel any slowdowns, turn these down and make sure you haven created a GPU bottleneck (some games are more demanding in the GPU than others). It's just an enhancement, so if you feel you don't need it, you can ignore it. 09-03-2013, 09:06 AM
I'm more of a fan of performance over graphical details when it comes to games. I don't mind textures looking muddy or whatevs as long as the framerate is high and solid. With that in mind, any advice on what I could do to tip the odds in performance favour. I've already got AF and AA as low as possible, but that didn't really help with F-Zero and Metroid Prime. Of course, that could be because I was running them in OpenGL. What would you say the best backend is in the performance over visuals department?
09-03-2013, 09:13 AM
(09-03-2013, 09:06 AM)smoothrunes Wrote: I'm more of a fan of performance over graphical details when it comes to games. I don't mind textures looking muddy or whatevs as long as the framerate is high and solid. With that in mind, any advice on what I could do to tip the odds in performance favour. I've already got AF and AA as low as possible, but that didn't really help with F-Zero and Metroid Prime. Of course, that could be because I was running them in OpenGL. What would you say the best backend is in the performance over visuals department?OpenGL is a very slow backend. DX9 is the fastest backend (unluckily for those who like DX9, that backend is deprecated and it will be removed in the future). 09-03-2013, 09:14 AM
AF has absolutely no measurable performance hit. Whack it back to 16 samples.
OS: Windows 10 64 bit Professional
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X RAM: 48GB GPU: Radeon 7800 XT 09-03-2013, 09:17 AM
OK, I'll bump the AF up to x16. Think I'm gonna give the Direct3D11 backend a whirl.
09-03-2013, 09:18 AM
You can raise AF to the max. modern GPU (even Intel's IGPs) do not slow down at all at 16x AF. Like I said, if you still get slowdowns with low IR and AA, you have a CPU bottleneck; overclocking is what you should be looking at to get your performance up.
Backend performance depends on drivers, your hardware, and the game you're playing. Generally, OGL performance on Windows is lower than D3D9 and sometimes D3D11. Linux OGL performance can match D3D9/11 on Windows though. OS X OGL performance, from what I hear, is slower than either OS :/ Anyway, as long as your performance bottlenecks are on the CPU side, you can raise the IR and AA as much as you like, until it bottlenecks your GPU. Unlike modern PC games, Dolphin is not heavily reliant on the GPU for a majority of its performance, so if the bottleneck is on the CPU, lowering your IR and AA will do nothing to give you a speedup. Off-topic - 3000th post \o/ yay! 09-04-2013, 11:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-04-2013, 11:37 AM by NaturalViolence.)
smoothrunes Wrote:where do you go to get advice on what settings to use (perhaps this forum) for a particular game etc. The wiki. Which is where people are supposed to share any specific issues, fixes, or recommended settings (although they rarely do). shonumi Wrote:Off-topic - 3000th post \o/ yay! Pfft. Get on my level.
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