The Legend of Zelda: The Wind waker CPU Benchmark

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Verix Wrote:so tinkering with a GPU bottleneck should be OK

As long as you're reducing the bottleneck. Not increasing it.

It's preferential though to not change the settings at all unless absolutely necessary (garbage IGP) since it could have a slight effect on cpu side performance as well.

@garrlker

It would help if we knew what your laptop specs are.

[garrlker]

i5 3210m
Intel hd 4000 igpu
8 Gb of ram
And Windows 8 64bit.

[NaturalViolence]

You're fine using the default settings with 1x IR.

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

He could have always just ran it with both 1x IR and 0.375x IR.

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

Apologies for the double-post, but we really need someone to bench a Haswell i3...

[NaturalViolence]

1. They just came out. Nobody has them yet.
2. We can easily accurately predict their performance since the only difference from the i5s is the number of cores and clock rate.

There are other chips that are much higher on the priority list. Go find me someone with one of the new athlon X2s based on piledriver plz. kthxbai

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

I can find them, the problem is that the current benchmark isn't super-duper easy to run like most PC benchmarks are because it isn't self-contained and requires a copy of Wind Waker.

[Zee530]

If only we could get dolphin to be accepted as a benchmarking software by hardware review sites, i seriously wonder how programs like Handbrake and such are chosen for the task.

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

The easiest reason is most likely because most PC review are done by PC gamers, and many of them care not for anything related to Nintendo after about 2001. This means that the likely-hood of the CPU reviewers having access to both a Wii (or Wii U) and a copy of Wind Waker is quite small.

At the same time, this does give hope that CEN64 may be a more likely CPU-heavy emulator benchmark. Also due to the age of the N64, many more people have less moral issues with N64 emulation and even *gasp* downloading N64 roms. It'd also have much more scientific appeal and therefore better legitimacy purely due to the fact that it's aimed at being a cycle-accurate simulator.

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Zee530 Wrote:i seriously wonder how programs like Handbrake and such are chosen for the task.

Handbrake is likely the most used video encoding software on the planet. That's why. They test the applications that their readers use because that's what their readers will likely want to see.