(01-25-2014, 12:13 AM)chaosblade02 Wrote: Dolphin capitalizes on faster single thread performance, which means Intel CPUs are just vastly superior for Dolphin. And this is true for gaming in general for any heavily CPU related games that aren't heavily multithreaded. You got some games like Crysis 3, and Battlefield 3 & 4 where AMD CPUs actually get good performance on, because those games are multithreaded heavily. An 8 core CPU isn't gonna do any good if the program you're running is only going to use 2 of those cores. I've seen benchmarks where even Intel I3 dual cores are rofl stomping flagship AMD CPUs in gaming. All the I3 is just a dual core version of the I5, same architecture.
Intel is so far ahead of AMD in CPU architecture, its not even funny.
Thank you for saying what we've said a million times before as if it's the first time it's been said.
Continuing what Natural Violence has repeated and I've said explicitly, could you give us screenshots of your settings? There's the possibility of a setting you don't remember changing that's causing all of this.
EDIT: There's also the chance that your PSU is giving a bad signal bad enough to cause serious performance spikes. It happened to me when my "good" (better than fire hazard) PSU exploded and I had to switch to my current one. In fact, I could get you a playability difference right now, to show you just how bad a PSU bottleneck can be. But, please tell us your PSU, as well. I (and others) can find if a power supply expert like jonnyguru explicitly dissed it, and, if so, recommend a better power supply for you. NOTE: I say this because this is something that doesn't seem to be an issue for me when I use Ubuntu (though, through ubuntu still performs badly on my system for other reasons), but is a massive issue when I use windows.
in a perfect world we would all be piles of sand with no ability to form coherent bodies of body