I don't know why you decided to PM me, but the forum complains that you have them disabled when I try to reply, so you might want to fix that. For now I'll just reply publicly.
Vertex Streaming Hack is pretty much a free speedup for all games. It doesn't cause any issues as far as I know, and it's one of the few things in the Hacks tab that doesn't specifically skip some step in the GPU emulation – it's only labeled as a hack because, from what I understand, it was designed to specifically avoid making the Nvidia drivers do anything that can't be done asynchronously, and thus it doesn't provide any speedup on other drivers and may even stop working on future Nvidia drivers.
OpenGL is commonly considered the best graphics backend in Dolphin, and for good reason. D3D9's been removed, and D3D (née D3D11) is almost invariably slower than OpenGL.
I wouldn't recommend touching too many other things in the Hacks tab, but feel free to turn up the enhancements – those are entirely GPU-bound, and you can turn them down without causing any bugs if they slow things down. Game speed is mainly dictated by CPU speed anyway, your GPU only needs to keep up with it.
Frameskip is only useful if your GPU is particularly awful, vsync always lowers framerate, and disabling fog is just there if you think the fog's ugly – it doesn't increase performance at all. Use the latter two only to make things look better, and avoid frameskip entirely.
retrogamer42 Wrote:Hey I tried the vertex hack, and it seems to have worked!
I got through both wrestler entrances at 100% FPS (except for a split second where it dropped to 71%, but immediately went back up to 100% and remained there)
Will that hack work with other games as well? And is keeping OpenGL the best option? What about frameskips, vsync, disable fog etc... just trying to get anything I can to optimize the performance even a little.
I just hope I'm not getting overly excited. Like I said, before even applying the vertex hack I played Luigi's Mansion up to the training part where you suck up multiple ghosts (thinking multiple sprites would drop FPS) but it didn't it stayed 100% all the way. It just seems like this will really work.
Vertex Streaming Hack is pretty much a free speedup for all games. It doesn't cause any issues as far as I know, and it's one of the few things in the Hacks tab that doesn't specifically skip some step in the GPU emulation – it's only labeled as a hack because, from what I understand, it was designed to specifically avoid making the Nvidia drivers do anything that can't be done asynchronously, and thus it doesn't provide any speedup on other drivers and may even stop working on future Nvidia drivers.
OpenGL is commonly considered the best graphics backend in Dolphin, and for good reason. D3D9's been removed, and D3D (née D3D11) is almost invariably slower than OpenGL.
I wouldn't recommend touching too many other things in the Hacks tab, but feel free to turn up the enhancements – those are entirely GPU-bound, and you can turn them down without causing any bugs if they slow things down. Game speed is mainly dictated by CPU speed anyway, your GPU only needs to keep up with it.
Frameskip is only useful if your GPU is particularly awful, vsync always lowers framerate, and disabling fog is just there if you think the fog's ugly – it doesn't increase performance at all. Use the latter two only to make things look better, and avoid frameskip entirely.
<@skid_au> fishing resort is still broken: http://i.imgur.com/dvPiQKg.png
<@neobrain> dafuq
<+JMC47> no dude, you're just holding the postcard upside down
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<@Lioncash> pauldachz in charge of shitposting :^)
<@neobrain> dafuq
<+JMC47> no dude, you're just holding the postcard upside down
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<@Lioncash> pauldachz in charge of shitposting :^)