Alright, the results are in!
With no AA of any sort, Per-Pixel Lighting OFF and 4x IR, Skyward Sword was too slow in Skyloft with DX9. I changed to 3x IR and I was able to get full speed in all areas. The only problem is that DX9 still had banding issues, which became very obvious to me when I looked at Link's cap and the Kikwi's green leaf portions. Switching to DX11 but keeping all other settings the same unfortunately resulted in 3x IR being too slow.
2.5x IR works fine in Skyward Sword though AFAICT.
I'm using DefenderX's 3.0-758 btw.
EDIT: SN3S, were you able to get the scrapers for Advanced Launcher to download thumbnails for all of your GC and Wii games? I was able to get some horribly pixelated fan art to appear in the background of XBMC but it just said there was no thumbnail available, when I know there is. I used GameFAQs btw. Is there a better scraper for box art thumbnails?
EDIT AGAIN: I just tried out SMG, 2.5 and 3x IR were too slow on the Starship. I used the 758 build for 2.5x and Dolphin 3.0 for 3x. 2x IR works great for this game though.
With no AA of any sort, Per-Pixel Lighting OFF and 4x IR, Skyward Sword was too slow in Skyloft with DX9. I changed to 3x IR and I was able to get full speed in all areas. The only problem is that DX9 still had banding issues, which became very obvious to me when I looked at Link's cap and the Kikwi's green leaf portions. Switching to DX11 but keeping all other settings the same unfortunately resulted in 3x IR being too slow.
2.5x IR works fine in Skyward Sword though AFAICT.
I'm using DefenderX's 3.0-758 btw.
EDIT: SN3S, were you able to get the scrapers for Advanced Launcher to download thumbnails for all of your GC and Wii games? I was able to get some horribly pixelated fan art to appear in the background of XBMC but it just said there was no thumbnail available, when I know there is. I used GameFAQs btw. Is there a better scraper for box art thumbnails?
EDIT AGAIN: I just tried out SMG, 2.5 and 3x IR were too slow on the Starship. I used the 758 build for 2.5x and Dolphin 3.0 for 3x. 2x IR works great for this game though.
Desktop:
OS: Windows 7 64 bit
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K @ 4.4 GHz
GPU: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Factory OC'ed)
RAM: 16 GB @ 1600 MHz
Dolphin Revision:3.0, 3.0-784, 3.5, latest 3.5
OS: Windows 7 64 bit
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K @ 4.4 GHz
GPU: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Factory OC'ed)
RAM: 16 GB @ 1600 MHz
Dolphin Revision:3.0, 3.0-784, 3.5, latest 3.5