Guess I'm a bit slow on reading the other threads then.
Overall, I suppose that makes sense. I just never realized how absolutely demanding TP was.
Can you clarify a bit on the demanding nature of the prime games though? For the most part I believe 1-2 still ran close to full speed (though I did actually see slight improvements when going down to 1xR on the 765m + Haswell i7M at 3.6GHZ just to test), but 3 now struggles a bit more than before on my desktop (GTX 660 2GB + i7920 OCed to 4.0GHZ... on the laptop, it seems slower, but it's actually hard to tell). Is the game still primarily CPU intensive (meaning I'd need a haswell 4GHZ+ speeds to play it at full), or what exactly is needed to handle this unique GPU thread? What hardware does it take to run Prime 3 at full speed now?
And yes, every other game was running great. Again, the main reason my post wasn't meant as a complaint was because everything else actually seemed faster compared to when I last benched each game a few months ago. The Zelda Ucode improvement made me downright giddy. I had an occaisional micro stutter in some games, but those only lasted for a bit. Most everything else ran very well (though Sonic Colors currently shows no HUD screen or menu sprites in Open GL...)
Also, I've yet to test it, but is it true that the gamecube version of TP is faster?
Overall, I suppose that makes sense. I just never realized how absolutely demanding TP was.
Can you clarify a bit on the demanding nature of the prime games though? For the most part I believe 1-2 still ran close to full speed (though I did actually see slight improvements when going down to 1xR on the 765m + Haswell i7M at 3.6GHZ just to test), but 3 now struggles a bit more than before on my desktop (GTX 660 2GB + i7920 OCed to 4.0GHZ... on the laptop, it seems slower, but it's actually hard to tell). Is the game still primarily CPU intensive (meaning I'd need a haswell 4GHZ+ speeds to play it at full), or what exactly is needed to handle this unique GPU thread? What hardware does it take to run Prime 3 at full speed now?
And yes, every other game was running great. Again, the main reason my post wasn't meant as a complaint was because everything else actually seemed faster compared to when I last benched each game a few months ago. The Zelda Ucode improvement made me downright giddy. I had an occaisional micro stutter in some games, but those only lasted for a bit. Most everything else ran very well (though Sonic Colors currently shows no HUD screen or menu sprites in Open GL...)
Also, I've yet to test it, but is it true that the gamecube version of TP is faster?