(03-27-2014, 04:03 AM)cosmoruski Wrote: I just tested DonkeyKong Country Returns for Wii with a Radeon HD 7870 set to 3x Naitive Resolution and my card also stays @ 300Mhz Core Clock most of the time, sometimes goes up - and the load ist somewhere around 25% (see screenshot)
As your Card is even faster, i think it does not need to crank up the clockrate for dolphin
You can set a high IR + AntiAlising so give the Cards something to do
I could increase the graphical settings to keep my 7970 busy, but that's not really my point. I don't understand how / why the games mentioned lag and stutter although my system hasn't reached it's limitations yet.
(03-27-2014, 05:14 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: You can force the card into high performance mode by making a profile for dolphin.exe in catalyst control center and changing the power setting to maximum performance.
As far as cpu load goes that's normal. Windows moves the dolphin threads around a lot which creates the illusion in task manager that the cores aren't being fully used (because task manager doesn't update fast enough to show it).
What performance are you getting in these games?
Yes, but that would leave the GPU even less busy. Catalyst increases the clock to 1.050 MHz autmatically when needed. Thus the fact that it stays at 500 MHz means that dolphin doesn't give the GPU something to do. -But yet it lags. And that keeps me confused.
-Or could that mean that all visual/graphical elements are rendered and the lagging is caused by other calculations the game does?
Do you mean FPS? Or what else? -And what monitoring method do you prefer then?