(12-05-2015, 09:09 AM)drhycodan Wrote: I [...] was curious what kind of hardware you need to run the game w/o the speedhack.
The original GC/Wii hardware manages to run it at full speed without the speedhack. Seriously though, I don't think there's hardware that manages to run the game in Dolphin at full speed without the speed hack… An overclocked i7 6700K is about as good as you can get.
(Hyrule Field runs at 10-15fps for me without the hack on my desktop PC.)
I haven't used Dolphin long enough to be able to tell the difference (first time in 2010, but only really using Dolphin since March 2015), but recent builds have been improving performance for me while fixing issues at the same time (new-zelda-hle for example, emulated CPU perf as the official raytrace benchmark is faster on latest builds).