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How does using custom textures affect performance? GPU or CPU?
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How does using custom textures affect performance? GPU or CPU?
07-11-2012, 03:01 PM
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I am *this close* to taking the plunge and redoing the textures for a game, but I am wondering: how does utilizing custom textures affect the emulator's performance? Does it tax the GPU more? Or does the CPU get tapped more as well? I ask because I'm tempted to go pretty high res with my textures, but I don't want to do that if it'll make the game unplayable on current CPUs.

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07-11-2012, 03:23 PM
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more video memory is consumed
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07-11-2012, 03:30 PM
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(07-11-2012, 03:23 PM)Squall Leonhart Wrote: more video memory is consumed
Would that mean no impact to the CPU?
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07-11-2012, 05:38 PM
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It's also likely that using custom textures increases stuttering when loading textures because Dolphin's custom texture loading algorithm is kinda crap. That shouldn't be an issue once all textures for a scene have been loaded.
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07-12-2012, 02:01 PM
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(07-11-2012, 05:38 PM)neobrain Wrote: It's also likely that using custom textures increases stuttering when loading textures because Dolphin's custom texture loading algorithm is kinda crap. That shouldn't be an issue once all textures for a scene have been loaded.
Interesting... could that be mitigated by using a faster hard drive or flash memory?
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07-12-2012, 03:26 PM
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