Sorry to hijack the thread but I too would like some advice.
I have an C2D E8400 3GHz overclocked to a rock solid stable 4GHz with 4GB of RAM and an HD4850 512MB.
I've been running Dolphin r7719M x64 recommended settings and I'm having no crashing issues and everything runs very well at 30fps apart from anywhere that has large open areas such as Skyloft when it can drop to as low as 19fps.
I tried to isolate the problem by setting my CPU to stock speed to see if it had a noticeable difference in my framerate but we are talking 1 or 2 frames.
I then clocked my CPU to 3.6GHz and found that I was getting the same performance as I am from 4.0GHz which lead me to believe that the CPU isn't the limiting factor.
I've been very happy running at 1680x1050 at 2x scaling, no AA and 16x AF aside from this framerate dip so I reduced the resolution to native, scaling to native, no AA and 1x AF but I get exactly the same framerate.
Long story short, is everyone seeing this dip in framerate in Skyloft or would upgrading to a 2500k system completely eradicate any dips in framerate?
I appreciate that it would probably allow me to get similiar performance with LLE audio and without skipping EFB access but other than that are 2500k systems really getting 100% 30fps throughout?
What do you guys think, I need to upgrade or am I not thinking of something obvious that could pull me 5fps back from some place?
I have an C2D E8400 3GHz overclocked to a rock solid stable 4GHz with 4GB of RAM and an HD4850 512MB.
I've been running Dolphin r7719M x64 recommended settings and I'm having no crashing issues and everything runs very well at 30fps apart from anywhere that has large open areas such as Skyloft when it can drop to as low as 19fps.
I tried to isolate the problem by setting my CPU to stock speed to see if it had a noticeable difference in my framerate but we are talking 1 or 2 frames.
I then clocked my CPU to 3.6GHz and found that I was getting the same performance as I am from 4.0GHz which lead me to believe that the CPU isn't the limiting factor.
I've been very happy running at 1680x1050 at 2x scaling, no AA and 16x AF aside from this framerate dip so I reduced the resolution to native, scaling to native, no AA and 1x AF but I get exactly the same framerate.
Long story short, is everyone seeing this dip in framerate in Skyloft or would upgrading to a 2500k system completely eradicate any dips in framerate?
I appreciate that it would probably allow me to get similiar performance with LLE audio and without skipping EFB access but other than that are 2500k systems really getting 100% 30fps throughout?
What do you guys think, I need to upgrade or am I not thinking of something obvious that could pull me 5fps back from some place?