Tweaking tips for beast rig and questions on dolphin direction

[gamesterdude]

Just got dolphin setup on my desktop whose specs are listed in my signature. So far most my games have run with a steady 60fps (I have frame rate limited by audio which seems to work best). Currently I run on 1920 x 1080 resolution with internal set at Auto Multiples. I did have stability issues with Smash Bros Melee and lots of lag in the Lord of the Rings games but I am sure I can find info about those items in other threads.

My questions are about many of the experimental settings in the config menus. All the guides I find are out dated and don't explain what settings do, they just say check this and click that. As a CS person I would like to know what they are specifically doing so I can know if they would be good for my current rig.

Since I have 16gb of the fastest memory you can buy and 2gb of video memory I am sure there are some tweaks to take advantage of this.

My last question was about the development of dolphin. Forums seem active so I wanted to know if this software is still being worked on regularly and I should expect to see many more releases. If so is there somewhere the developers accept donations to help keep the work going.

Sorry for long post. Thanks for any replies.

[admin89]

Depending on the game . Your i5 2500k stock will run most games full speed , your GTX 550Ti can handle 4x Internal Resolution , no AA , 16 AF
However , neither i5 2500k nor 550TI are fast enough for demanding games such as The Last Story , Mario Galaxy ... + High resolution (as I mentioned above)
For demanding games , you have to overclock your i5 to 4.5GHz and lower resolution to 3x or 2x IR or upgrade your GPU to GTX 660

[gamesterdude]

(01-21-2013, 11:45 AM)admin89 Wrote: Depending on the game . Your i5 2500k stock will run most games full speed , your GTX 550Ti can handle 4x Internal Resolution , no AA , 16 AF
However , neither i5 2500k nor 550TI are fast enough for demanding games such as The Last Story , Mario Galaxy ... + High resolution (as I mentioned above)
For demanding games , you have to overclock your i5 to 4.5GHz and lower resolution to 3x or 2x IR or upgrade your GPU to GTX 660

I am able to get a stable 5GHZ out of my I5 as I run water cooling and using the new Z77 chipset mobo which has some new voltage settings that help with over clocking. I may give it a try but I am not worried about Wii games. Just want perfect performance for Gamecube.

[admin89]

There are many demanding Gamecube games which require even more CPU power than Wii games !

Quote:Since I have 16gb of the fastest memory you can buy and 2gb of video memory I am sure there are some tweaks to take advantage of this

Dolphin doesn't care about RAM memory . 2GB for 32 bit , 4GB for 64bit
Higher Ram bus (800/1333/1600/2400MHz) will gain a small boost if you use "EFB copies to RAM"
"EFB copies to RAM" should fix graphic bug that appear on "EFB copies to texture" . However , "EFB copies to RAM" is slower than "EFB copies to texture"
As for settings per game , you can check dolphin wiki - compatibility list