(03-03-2014, 08:35 AM)Duke Nukem Wrote: Yeah well Dolphin is getting more accurate and accurate every day. Accuracy requires good hardware, just look at bsnes/higan.
If you choose to stick with a 3 year old build don't expect to get support here, and if Dolphin means that much you can always upgrade your hardware.
This is definitely something I considered... and this is also part of my original question: Has there been some fundamental change in recent builds to the backend that would require such a significant boost in power just to perform things it did easily years ago requiring exceptionally less power? (i.e. Midway sound driver hack for Mortal Kombat et. al being removed from MAME but accurate emulation requiring 10x the proc)
I can't imagine that the builds from 3 years ago that run games so rock spot on at 16xAA and using nothing much besides defaul settings without using tricky speed hacks could now be on what I imagine is a much sleeker and rehauled software much more efficient than the last time I used it, yet somehow perform impossibly unusable.
My system is not super far off - Core 2 Quad Q9550 / EVGA GTX560 / 8GB DDR2 Ram / Intel SSD - Surely its not impossible to even achieve 30fps with no antialiasing and 1x Anisotropic filtering. I can not even play at the lowest settings with the latest builds.
I'm still possibly considering my system being obsolete for this software but I'm still leaning more towards a single issue and option that I am overlooking that is causing this performance. Any ideas?