Hyrule Field Slowdown Observation

[shortzi]

SonicAdvance1 said he may know a hack to get around the corrupted text issue

http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=2499

Just have to wait and see

[sNk]

r5030 @ E8400 @ 4ghz



with 5413 i get lower FPS if i am fighting with enemy's....

with 5030 that problem is solved....

[Xtreme2damax]

I have a Core2Duo E8500 with 4 GB of DDR2 Dual Channel Ram and a Nvidia 9800 GT and still get drastic slowdowns in Hyrule Field.

Without the patch I get 12 - 13 FPS in the slowest part of Hyrule Field, with the patch I get 18 - 20 FPS in the slowest part of Hyrule Field but it messes up textures.

I did try fixing the issues with the textures, but it proved useless as I was just flushing the same data as without the patch.

[sNk]

3,8 GHZ is necessary to reach the 30 FPS...

with 4 GHZ I am getting around 33-35 FPS in hyrule field


up to here the results are very nice!

[Xtreme2damax]

How far are you through the game though?

My CPU is running at 3.2 or 3.3 GHZ, that's the max I can overclock with my current motherboard. I wouldn't of thought 600 Mhz would make that much of a difference seeing as I only get 12 FPS on the slowest part of Hyrule Field with my current system configuration.

[sNk]

i must go the ground of lake hylia with iron boots...

if you have the GC version you can give me your memory card... then i will try it...

[naroth]

o wow!! Thank you very much shortzi!! i just tried your build and indeed I can see the difference!

[shuffle2]

(04-28-2010, 05:53 AM)Jack Frost Wrote: My guess it that skid's FIFO changes might be just what we need. Stuff blocks and hangs in there where it shouldnt have to.

Yup, that's what I think too

[Xtreme2damax]

Well SonicAdvance1 said he would try to add a hack for now which should fix the texture issues and give a small speed increase in this area. Even though I would indeed prefer a proper fix, a lot of people have been extremely anxious to get any extra speed in this area.

I normally consider 18 - 20 FPS bearable for a game where 30 FPS is full speed, if full speed is achievable that would be even better.

I should mention this issue seems specific to certain people, those with overclocked i7 and Core2duo processors are reporting little to no slowdowns in this area. I have a Core2Duo E8500 that is overclocked to 3.2 or 3.3 Ghz and still am getting drastic slowdowns, someone who posted above has a Core2Duo E8400 overclocked to 3.8 Ghz or 4.0 Ghz and is getting little or no slowdown.

Could a 600 Mhz - 800 Mhz overclock really make this much of a difference on already powerful processors?

I wonder how much longer before Skid is finally finished with his Fifo work, because it would really be nice to see if it make a difference.

[sNk]

every mainboard is able to clock and E8xxx processor for 600 MHZ! give it another try.... there is a little configuration you had to change... for the fist time a overclocking of 600 MHZ gaved me 4-5 frames in twilight princess...