Tweaking Brawl on high end system

[ExtremeDude2]

That is what we have been saying XD

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:I need the emulator to run locked at 60fps, no slowdowns whatsoever. My pals are a competitive lot and will lambast me if it is not butter smooth.

You can never guarantee this with an emulator. If performance is this big of a concern you should use a real wii and learn to deal with the lower image quality.

Quote:Close to perfection, but stutters frequently.

Dropping IR to 2x gives the desired performance but not visuals. Vying for the 3xIR to work.

Like others have said this is most likely due to having your AA way too high. Also you should do everything that admin89 mentioned.

Quote:Now for some questions.
More like an affirmation for this first one: Because I'm using 4 computer players to test, I am guessing that a good amount of processing power is being wasted there instead of being used for powering the engine. If I have 4 humans in game then I should see much better performance. Is this true?
Can I defer any of the graphical load to the GPUs to increase engine speed?
What am I missing out on by not using DX11? Should I make using DX my goal?
Does anyone have a similar rig to provide comparisons? Is it possible that anything is being bottle-necked(lol)?
Any suggestions for tweaking settings?

1. I'll let someone else answer this since I don't play SSB games.
2. Not in any significant way. GPUs are for rendering.
3. Probably nothing. D3d9 is generally faster than openGL but not for everyone. Please make sure your gpu is not running at idle clocks with d3d9 and d3d11 using the method that admin89 posted. That may actually be the reason that you saw better performance with openGL.
4. Yes......there is always a bottleneck, otherwise you would have infinite performance.
5. See above.

[grogel]

First I'd like to give a big thanks for all the feedback. My card was running at idle clock speeds (even though HWMonitor said otherwise). After I cranked the IR to 4x my GPU load was hovering around 60% use, as opposed to 10%.

Final settings:

DX9
4xIR
4xSSAA
V-sync on (otherwise input lag)

The game now runs as close to butter as possible. This is really going to make the evenings for this trip great. I'll raise a glass or two in your honor.

Love,
Grogel

Edit: Would love to test an Extreme Dude 804x64 if it drops in time

[DefenderX]

We're glad that you could solve your problem. Now enjoy Dolphin and if you have any other questions/problems, feel free to ask.

[ExtremeDude2]

(11-15-2012, 04:05 PM)grogel Wrote: Edit: Would love to test an Extreme Dude 804x64 if it drops in time

Sorry :p, not till sunday , and then I'll just do the latest which is like 3.0-813 atm