trying to run star wars rogue squadron 2 - where's the bottleneck?

[nish81]

hi all!

very excited to see that rogue leader is now supported, and have been trying to get it to run. I'm having a tough time hitting a stable framerate - using LLE audio, EFB access and EFB2RAM turned off (sacrificing graphics for speed), and even reducing the CPU clock to 50% - this helps but it still stutters at time. thought I'd post my specs to see what you guys think should be improved:

16GB RAM
Intel i7-980 @ 3.33Ghz
NVidia GTX 560-Ti
Windows 7 x64

running on dolphin 4.0-6002

I'm guessing it's my graphics card, but would like to be sure

[NKF98]

Your processor is the issue, the GPU is fine.

Also, that game is nearly impossible to run at full speed from what I understand

[Fiora]

Your CPU is quite old (an original Nehalem, I think?); you need a high-clocked Ivy Bridge -- or really, preferably a Haswell -- to have a chance at running Rogue Squadon at full speed. Older i7s are a lot slower per clock.

[IceStrike256]

I still get slowdown at times and don't even bother with getting 3 to run full speed atm

[nish81]

Ahh, interesting, I always thought it was my GPU holding me back. Useful to know, thanks! Might look for a new processor sometime then.