Hey guys,
i'm new in the forum, however i've been browsing here for a while now.
I have had performance issues for a while now on my samsung series 7, even though it was a quad core i7 and had a good graphics card.
i searched the forums but could not find anything that helped me get a playable frame rate. ( i was getting 20fps even on windwaker, and even less on battle moments.)
I read that dolphin only uses 2 cores, so the quad core setuo was kind of useless right?
anyways, i checked on taskmanager that dolphin was using only 25% of my cpu, and still was not fast enough. surely it would cap at 50% if used 2 cores fully right?
then it hit me: my i7, as many other laptop and desktop processors from intel, has HYPERTRHEADING. which basically splits the 4 cores into 8 "virtual cores".
so the reason it was capping at 25% was because dolphin was "seeing" 2 of my virtual cores and using only those, leaving me with lots of unused CPU power, and bottlenecking my performance.
I then went into my BIOS and switched off hyperthreading, and voila! 30fps constant, and 100 percent of the speed even in cutaways, since dolhpin is now utilizing fully 2 of my 4 cores.
since i didn't find this tip on the forum, i've decided to post, in case it helps someone else too.
cheers! and keep on gaming!
PS. big thanks to the DEV team for making this awesome piece of software. you guys rock!
i'm new in the forum, however i've been browsing here for a while now.
I have had performance issues for a while now on my samsung series 7, even though it was a quad core i7 and had a good graphics card.
i searched the forums but could not find anything that helped me get a playable frame rate. ( i was getting 20fps even on windwaker, and even less on battle moments.)
I read that dolphin only uses 2 cores, so the quad core setuo was kind of useless right?
anyways, i checked on taskmanager that dolphin was using only 25% of my cpu, and still was not fast enough. surely it would cap at 50% if used 2 cores fully right?
then it hit me: my i7, as many other laptop and desktop processors from intel, has HYPERTRHEADING. which basically splits the 4 cores into 8 "virtual cores".
so the reason it was capping at 25% was because dolphin was "seeing" 2 of my virtual cores and using only those, leaving me with lots of unused CPU power, and bottlenecking my performance.
I then went into my BIOS and switched off hyperthreading, and voila! 30fps constant, and 100 percent of the speed even in cutaways, since dolhpin is now utilizing fully 2 of my 4 cores.
since i didn't find this tip on the forum, i've decided to post, in case it helps someone else too.
cheers! and keep on gaming!
PS. big thanks to the DEV team for making this awesome piece of software. you guys rock!
