Is disliking your president a matter of identity or something ?
Anyway.
That config is quite weak for Xenoblade and emulation is general. What makes it so bad is your CPU. You're using a 1st Gen AMD FX CPU that's shipping with Bulldozer architecture, with lots of cores and Gigahertz, but that generally performs worse than Intel counterpart or previous AMD Phenom II in such usage. AMD FX processors have weak Single Thread performance that Dolphin and most advanced emulators (aka PCSX2) are greatly relying on. The small overclocking you made absolutely isn't going to take you anywhere in this regard. It's not a matter of configuration tweaks, it's just that you're trying to run one of the most demanding game the emulator can run on one of the weakest possible configuration that can actually run it. You're talking about freezes on image and audio : https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-wii-xenoblade-chronicles. This is the place you discuss game specific problems, but like I said, your hardware is too weak for this. What's your average FPS anyway ?
So now you're left with basically three options IMO :
--> Buy a cooler and OC near 5.0 Ghz. Even then, I don't know if you'll get any noticeable improvement on this game.
--> Ditch FX 6100 and try some older AMD series. You'll find a good hierarchy of Dolphin-capable CPUs here. Like I stated, a Phenom II is really the best option for Dolphin and other demanding emulators such as PCSX2, if you can't afford to change your Motherboard AND your CPU and is stuck with AMD. The motherboard you're using right now can certainly be used for older AMD CPU that use older sockets.
--> Go the Intel way, using the hierarchy I gave you before. You can also go on PCSX2 forums and look for their CPU hierarchy but I think it will be quite similar to Dolphin's.
PS. I think this topic is more hardware than anything else.
Anyway.
That config is quite weak for Xenoblade and emulation is general. What makes it so bad is your CPU. You're using a 1st Gen AMD FX CPU that's shipping with Bulldozer architecture, with lots of cores and Gigahertz, but that generally performs worse than Intel counterpart or previous AMD Phenom II in such usage. AMD FX processors have weak Single Thread performance that Dolphin and most advanced emulators (aka PCSX2) are greatly relying on. The small overclocking you made absolutely isn't going to take you anywhere in this regard. It's not a matter of configuration tweaks, it's just that you're trying to run one of the most demanding game the emulator can run on one of the weakest possible configuration that can actually run it. You're talking about freezes on image and audio : https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-wii-xenoblade-chronicles. This is the place you discuss game specific problems, but like I said, your hardware is too weak for this. What's your average FPS anyway ?
So now you're left with basically three options IMO :
--> Buy a cooler and OC near 5.0 Ghz. Even then, I don't know if you'll get any noticeable improvement on this game.
--> Ditch FX 6100 and try some older AMD series. You'll find a good hierarchy of Dolphin-capable CPUs here. Like I stated, a Phenom II is really the best option for Dolphin and other demanding emulators such as PCSX2, if you can't afford to change your Motherboard AND your CPU and is stuck with AMD. The motherboard you're using right now can certainly be used for older AMD CPU that use older sockets.
--> Go the Intel way, using the hierarchy I gave you before. You can also go on PCSX2 forums and look for their CPU hierarchy but I think it will be quite similar to Dolphin's.
PS. I think this topic is more hardware than anything else.
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