What would you recommend I upgrade on my desktop pc for better emulation w dolphin?

[Necorum]

""If you have i7 buy a nVidia 285 and switch GsdX to SSE4.1/hardware mode for full speed emulation in most titles"

I do believe they said this due to the pcsx 2 gsdx plugin favoring nvidia over ati cards. It had a bug in it if i remember correctly. It should have no impact on dolphin.

[abfab126]

What is this computer of yours ?

You have corei7 but 8gigs of Ram ???
On wich Motherboard are you using It ? ( intel x58 accepts DDR3 TRIPLE channel Memory so it should be 3 . 6 or even 12 gigs , right ???)

[THELUKESTIR]

or 9... you forgot 9 OVERCLOCK

[edwardsamule]

Hi Shatered soul,
I think that the Computer Hardware suggested by you seems fine. I think that you should purchase the graphic card that will help in increasing the speed while you are playing games.

[shateredsoul]

(09-16-2009, 11:41 PM)abfab126 Wrote: What is this computer of yours ?

You have corei7 but 8gigs of Ram ???
On wich Motherboard are you using It ? ( intel x58 accepts DDR3 TRIPLE channel Memory so it should be 3 . 6 or even 12 gigs , right ???)

Hmm? don't know much about that.. I bought it from HP, it has 6 slots and 4 of them have ram inserted. All 8gigs are recognized, so go figure. I could upgrade to 12... but i have no use for that. Maybe someday =)

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(09-15-2009, 08:36 AM)thegamefreak0134 Wrote: I don't know if the processor you listed is multi-core (I assume it is if it's recent, it looks good) but regardless, turn *on* Dual Core emulation. It actually provides speedup even on single core systems because of better process management, and on hyperthreaded processors it's basically just like having Dual Core.

Make sure that Optimize Quantizers is on, unless the game specifically requires it to be off. (Metroid and Mario Kart Wii are known to have issues, among some others.) This makes an impact CPU wise, since it affects the translation from the GC's graphics format into DirectX/OpenGL's format, if I'm not mistaken.

Since you have an epic Graphics Card, you can probably run at whatever resolution you want and not suffer any issues. My nVidia 9600 GT (that's like the oldest one in the current series, if I'm not mistaken) can handle Dolphin just fine at 1680x1050. You're probably OK turning on AA and MultiSampling at that level too, although I had to tone this back a bit on my card, it can't quite handle 16x QSAA like I want it to XD. Note: to do this, you'll need to disable the "Native" option in OpenGL, I don't think DirectX even has that option. You'll need to *not* do this if you have shader issues, although I haven't noticed any.

Oh: if the game runs OK on it, the IL build is *slightly* faster sometimes, but I've never found it to make a significant impact.

I've found that SMS, Zelda Wind Waker, SA2B, Luigi's Mansion, Melee, and Pikmin 2 all run fullspeed and work basically flawlessly on my setup, and I've got *much* slower RAM than you, I'm just running 2G of generic DDR2 RAM, my biggest performance bottleneck. You should have no trouble at all.

Oh: Make sure that unless there are serious issues, you're using the directX plugin on windows, now that its fixed mostly. It runs a lot faster than OpenGL since it will take better advantage of your graphics card's capabilities. Not really a big impact most of the time, but you'll notice it in scenes where the polygon count or vertex shader complexity is really high. Also, make sure that EFB is set to the GL hack for basically all games except Super Mario Sunshine, as setting it to full Copy to Ram emulation will slow things down a lot.

Most of these settings and tips and things are pretty global, since Dolphin's main bottleneck performance wise is CPU based and has nothing to do with your card. Understand that with an awesome card, you basically get to *rule out* card slowness as an issue, and it just opens the door to investigating other things. ^_^

-gamefreak

On a side note that doesn't even apply to you: the DirectX plugin works with nVidia's stereoscopic rendering! It *rocks*!!

thanks for the advice, the direct x plugin is still giving me many issues compared to opengl, but other than that pretty good advice. thanks

[abfab126]

(09-17-2009, 01:13 PM)THELUKESTIR Wrote: or 9... you forgot 9 OVERCLOCK

You ASS , 3GB Sticks are really hard to find !! ( think a little before posting ,jk^^)

[Unknownforce]

(09-16-2009, 11:41 PM)abfab126 Wrote: What is this computer of yours ?

You have corei7 but 8gigs of Ram ???
On wich Motherboard are you using It ? ( intel x58 accepts DDR3 TRIPLE channel Memory so it should be 3 . 6 or even 12 gigs , right ???)

just because it has triple channel, doesn't mean it has to use it. he has 4 sticks of 2gb ram... which is really a waste of speed, as that kills the triple channel speed gain, But I think it still does dual channel at that point? So I guess it's not that bad... but what are you going to use 8 gb RAM on a desktop for? I have 3 GB and never have any memory problems.

[brunonalex]

I think that there is no need to upgrade your Computer. Only you have buy a Nividia Graphic Card. This will help you in increasing the speed of your computer.