(10-13-2015, 12:35 PM)Irrelevant_pelican Wrote: I should have made this more clear but my first post and in my signature are the specs I already have. Mario Galaxy lags at 1080p with my current setup. Just looking to replace my gpu and cpu.
Your specs SHOULD be fine, it's one of a few possible problems. (OOPS I wrote shouldn't instead of SHOULD, confusing!)
-Dolphin Settings
-Dolphin Build (have you tried latest dev?)
-Clock speed, an issue that can't just be bought away.
Dolphin is extremely clock dependent, it's only using 2 cores. Buying a new higher end CPU won't help in most cases because they are usually just adding features your not utilizing, what you need to do is get 2 cores running as fast as you can. And the trend of CPUs atm is lower clocks, more cores and HT which doesn't help gamers in most cases.
This is because we've reached the thermal and material limits of silicon based processors, they can't make faster cores as easily as they can just add more slow cores. The problem is game developers are too lazy to do the extra work needed to utilize HT or more than a few cores.
(ideally it would be great if we could parallelize these cores on the hardware level but that's another discussion and the benefits would only be to single applications speeds not multi application speeds.)
-From experience 4ghz is the minimum clock requirement for Mario Galaxy. If you look at the wiki page everyone who's tested it has been over 4.4ghz, except for someone who used a non supported dolphin build.
You GTX 770 should be more than enough, I've played Mario Galaxy on a 650 using an i5-2500k under Win 7 at 1440p and it ran buttery smooth.
"I’m busy. I’m also a gamer, though, and, in my opinion, paying for an advantage in a game, well, you might as well stop playing games and find a more copacetic hobby that suits your busy schedule." -Some guy on a forum somewhere.