How does using custom textures affect performance? GPU or CPU?

crisdecuba · 07-11-2012, 03:01 PM #1

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.

Anyone know?

**Squall Leonhart** · 07-11-2012, 03:23 PM #2

more video memory is consumed

crisdecuba · 07-11-2012, 03:30 PM #3

(07-11-2012, 03:23 PM)Squall Leonhart Wrote: more video memory is consumed

Would that mean no impact to the CPU?

**neobrain** · 07-11-2012, 05:38 PM #4

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.

crisdecuba · 07-12-2012, 02:01 PM #5

(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?

**DefenderX** · 07-12-2012, 03:26 PM #6

Err... actually not.

You won't see much difference.