I'm using Dolphin 5.0-1328, playing Super Mario Galaxy 1 at 1080p, with HD textures preloaded. I have a pretty beefy CPU (specs posted below for convenience), and it's overclocked a teensy bit too, but I seem to get lag in some areas. It happens frequently in many different areas for short periods, however the most noticeable was in Ghostly Galaxy, the framerate would drop from 60fps to 55fps with very unpleasant audio stretching when the Boo Mushroom popped up. I'm thinking that this could be a result of my GPU, since I have heard this game is GPU intensive. I play in Vulkan because it's the only backend that gets full speed in any game, aside from the glitchy D3D12. I plan to get a GTX 1060 6GB soon, which will hopefully be a good upgrade. I have two questions about this:
1. Is the GPU actually what's making this game play worse? Will a 1060 help?
2. Vulkan seems to still have glitches and missing features, and I've heard that NVIDIA GPUs have better OpenGL support, so will this new GPU let me play games at full speed with OpenGL instead of Vulkan?
Windows 10 Home x64
Intel Core i5-6600k
AMD Radeon HD 7950
EVGA SuperSC 16GB DDR4
1. Is the GPU actually what's making this game play worse? Will a 1060 help?
2. Vulkan seems to still have glitches and missing features, and I've heard that NVIDIA GPUs have better OpenGL support, so will this new GPU let me play games at full speed with OpenGL instead of Vulkan?
Windows 10 Home x64
Intel Core i5-6600k
AMD Radeon HD 7950
EVGA SuperSC 16GB DDR4