Hello all! So, I been having a strange issue here that I had not noticed before. I have put most of my non compressed GC isos on an SSD, its a crappy one but an SSD nontheless. With some more recent optimications in the last month or two I decided to see how well some of the Wii games played. Mario Kart Wii, Skyward Sword and Okami Work perfectly with almost no, if any, slowdowns or stutters at all! I switched over to a couple gamecube games just for shits and they seemed to run with a massive amount of stuttering. In particular the games most stutter filled are Starfox Assault, Starfox Adventures and F-Zero GX. I noticed that all of my Wii games are on an old as the hills USB2.0 640GB HD with the entire partition NTFS compressed. Normally I would think this would be less than ideal but a good chunk of my roms and such are on it and MOST rams are tiny compared to Wii I don't see a problem normally. Out of sheer curiosity I moved those 3 GameCube games onto the same crappy old USB HD and low and behold, not an undue stutter in sight. I have 2 SSDs and one is for my OS and one was a spare I took from my wifes laptop that died only a week or so after I installed it and that is the one I am using for overflow stuff and quick load times on certain PC games. Both SSDs are identical and plugged into SATA ports handled by different chip sets, here is the model of the drives "[color=#000000]PNY SSD2SC120G726A104[/color]". My thing is, shouldn't dolphin work better off the SSD? If so what the heck could I be doing wrong? My first instinct is that even though the drive sucks the USB drive uses its a different controller and maybe offloads my CPU? I asked my brother to test and he has the EXACT same issue from a Samsung pro SSD with the ddr3 cache unlike my PNYs. Is this maybe a queuing thing that dolphin perhaps doesn't play well with on SSDs?
As always, thanks all for and advice or insight you may have.
P.S. My PC specs are Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 OC to 3.51Ghz, Win7X64, 8GB RAM and the aforementioned SSDs.
As always, thanks all for and advice or insight you may have.
P.S. My PC specs are Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 OC to 3.51Ghz, Win7X64, 8GB RAM and the aforementioned SSDs.