Mario Galaxy 1/2 HLE vs LLE Specs

[Crazyhalo]

Hi everyone Finally got around to upgrading my processor to something much meatier intel i7 3770k quad core 3.5 ghz, first thing I wanted to test after my upgrade was the Mario Galaxy series, I fair well running at 720 and 1080 resolutions using HLE a few minor slow downs but more on that. Running with the LLE plug in however any mixture of particle effects causes a pretty significant slow down, as stated before you know my processor but as for graphics I'm running with the nvidia gts 450, I'm guessing since the emulator doesn't max out my processor it's not that that's causing my game to run slowly, should I focus on overclocking my Graphics card or focus on my cpu(I doubt this could be the issue). If so could someone point me in the direction of some handy software Thanks for your time

[NaturalViolence]

OC the cpu.

What settings are you using?

[DefenderX]

1st - Try the official Dolphin 3.5 release
2nd - Overclock your CPU as NV said
3rd - Try the settings for best speed (link in my sig)

[Crazyhalo]

(12-26-2012, 08:10 PM)DefenderX Wrote: 1st - Try the official Dolphin 3.5 release
2nd - Overclock your CPU as NV said
3rd - Try the settings for best speed (link in my sig)

have any pointers on decent overclocking software? In regards to intel cpus

[ExtremeDude2]

Most people don't use software and just go into the BIOS

[DefenderX]

or EFI/UEFI

Anyway, OC software is not really recommended.

[Nerrel]

(12-27-2012, 11:13 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: Most people don't use software and just go into the BIOS

I'm not knowledgeable about computers and I managed to overclock pretty easily this way. Just raise the clock speed little by little and use some stress testing programs after each adjustment to determine if the system is stable. If you get a blue screen/crash, you either have to back the speed down or, if you really want the best possible performance, raise the voltage by a small increment and test for crashes again. If there are no crashes, you can repeat the process of raising the clock and voltage again.

You'll hit a point where either the temperatures or voltages get too high to safely raise the clock any higher. As long as you know the expected clock speeds your CPU can handle and the maximum safe voltage and temp, it shouldn't be too hard to find the right setting for your system. My i5-2500k went all the way to 4.1ghz without even requiring a single voltage bump, .8 free ghz just like that.