(08-22-2014, 11:08 AM)Fuszion Wrote: My PC specs are -
AMD FX 8120 3.2 8 core
8gb ddr3 ram
Nvidia Geforce 580 1.5gb galaxy edition
Win 8.1
Now knowing that, could anybody tell me why not a single NFS game can run above 6 to 17 fps?
And truthfully, its not just the fps, the game runs like crap! Its not running like it has bad fps, it runs like I'm trying to play it on a Commodore 64!
If the reason is because my rig is too weak, I'm afraid to ask how good it has to be!
And to be specific about which NFS games I'm talking about.
Underground
Underground 2
Most Wanted
Carbon
I almost don't even care anymore if I can play these games. I more just want to know why I cant!
Your CPU is the problem. Dolphin only uses 2 or 3 threads, so everything above 3 cores is not used at all. And then amd's cpus are way slower per thread per ghz than intel's cpus(single thread performance).
Take a look at this:
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-G3258-vs-AMD-FX-8120
The cheap dual core pentium g3258 beats your 8-core cpu by about 70% in single thread performance, and i assume the performance difference in dolphin is in the same ballpark. To make things worse, you can overlock that pentium with air cooling above 4 ghz.