jeffj Wrote:I will go ahead and make a proper profile for it. Thanks. Higher resolutions are eye candy sure, but so is AA and AF, at least i consider it to be lol. Maybe it does run better in higher IR, but when i got it to run at near 100% all the time i nearly pissed my self and didn't want to touch anything lol.
This is completely normal. Newer AMD and Nvidia GPUs have power saving features that toggle the GPU between idle, 2D, low 3D, and high 3D modes. Each mode has different clock rates and voltages thereby changing the power consumption. The GPU tries to use the lowest mode possible without decreasing performance in order to save as much power as possible. It does this by constantly checking the GPU load and popping up/down the different modes to find the lowest mode that still yields <99% load. The problem is that in situations where the load is high but not maxed out fluctuations in load can cause it to suddenly switch modes for short periods of time when it shouldn't (resulting in stuttering). Or sometimes it just doesn't detect it properly and never goes into the higher performance modes when it should (resulting in consistently poor framerates compared to what you should be getting). In dolphin raising the IR and/or texture cache accuracy can force it into high performance mode by increasing the load, causing performance to increase. But of course if you're willing to deal with higher power consumption you can force the GPU to run in high 3D mode all the time or set it to switch to that mode whenever a particular application is running via the driver control panel.
jeffj Wrote:However i have to make the choice do i i buy new hardware for my media pc or just break down and pay over price for a working GC lol.
Get a Wii instead if you're seriously considering this option. It's backwards compatible with GC games.
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-Mark Antony