Thank you, NaturalViolence, for your response.
I fear that while I don't dispute you I do think the operative word in your response is "should." Internal resolution absolutely impacts my performance in a substantive way (I always manually set it when tinkering), but it doesn't seem at all illogical to me that a display resolution of 1280x800 should perform at least *a little* better than 2560x1600 ... it's half the resolution, after all. Again, running in low res mode "tricks" Dolphin into doing just that--running at the lower resolution with significant performance gains (and the ability to up the internal resolution to achieve a better balance for visual fidelity).
That said, what I'm hearing from those smarter than myself is that my experience is the exception rather than the rule. I'm happy to continue onward simply swapping my display resolution as no one else seems to notice a difference, but my testing continually bears out the same results--lower the display resolution to squeeze out some precious FPS and make otherwise unplayable games playable (at least relative to metered expectations of the Iris chipset). Hopefully that helps somebody, somewhere!
Again, thank you all for your time and trouble--keep up the good work and onward soldiers, as they say!
I fear that while I don't dispute you I do think the operative word in your response is "should." Internal resolution absolutely impacts my performance in a substantive way (I always manually set it when tinkering), but it doesn't seem at all illogical to me that a display resolution of 1280x800 should perform at least *a little* better than 2560x1600 ... it's half the resolution, after all. Again, running in low res mode "tricks" Dolphin into doing just that--running at the lower resolution with significant performance gains (and the ability to up the internal resolution to achieve a better balance for visual fidelity).
That said, what I'm hearing from those smarter than myself is that my experience is the exception rather than the rule. I'm happy to continue onward simply swapping my display resolution as no one else seems to notice a difference, but my testing continually bears out the same results--lower the display resolution to squeeze out some precious FPS and make otherwise unplayable games playable (at least relative to metered expectations of the Iris chipset). Hopefully that helps somebody, somewhere!
Again, thank you all for your time and trouble--keep up the good work and onward soldiers, as they say!
(01-08-2014, 12:41 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Internal resolution is the only thing that should effect performance here. Display resolution will only effect performance if IR is left on auto.
Your desktop and dolphin should both be set to operate at your max display resolution.