OpenCL and Dolphin Emulation !!

[Runo]

(10-16-2010, 12:29 PM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: For some games powerful hardware is required due to processing of all the vertex data and other things, emulating the output of the Gamecube/Wii as accurately as possible without destroying speed is a monumental task that requires quite powerful hardware to run some games at decent speeds. OpenCL is not some magical fix, it isn't going overcome limitations of crappy or otherwise inadequate and underpowered hardware.

Yep, but Dolphin is very CPU intensive, and so in my opinion the key at the moment to increase the emulation fps without losing accuracy is to give people who have very powerful graphic cards some options like OpenCL, that let the GPU "participate" a little more... If this is further developed I think the devs could achieve major speed improvements in the emu, using this technique, not only with OpenCL, but also other things that could be done by the GPU that would make the emulation faster.

[Xtreme2damax]

You can't offload much more onto the GPU, the GPU is pretty much being utilized all that it can be for emulation. It's may be possible to do Copy EFB to GPU Vram which would speed up EFB Copies and EFB -> Ram emulation but that's about it and even that may be unlikely.

[Runo]

(10-17-2010, 06:58 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: It's may be possible to do Copy EFB to GPU Vram which would speed up EFB Copies and EFB -> Ram emulation but that's about it and even that may be unlikely.

I was thinking about that when I said "and other things" XD
Im not suggesting that the devs literally "transfer" work to the GPU, what Im sayng is that there are things that the GPU can do that may speed up what CPU already does. Again, that's Opencl lol

[Maruf]

(10-16-2010, 08:37 AM)metalnumb Wrote: Ehmm ! Very Disappointing , but thanks for the answer anyways !!

but its not fair that you need a very powerful CPU Like I7 with high CLK to get close to full speed in some games
But Dolphin Developers are able to surprise us all the time !!  

You can use Ishiiruka Dolphin its more faster and more stable

[AnyOldName3]

It's not always faster and is usually less stable. You're not really supposed to go promoting unofficial builds except in their own thread or where they fix a specific problem.

Also, holy necropost, Batman! This thread is nearly a decade old.

[Shonumi]

Yes, please do not recommend unofficial builds like that. The general cut off for necroposting is 6 months as well.

Closed.