Where exactly is my hardware bottleneck?

[jamesluke]

I'm new to Dolphin; however, I have been doing a little bit of research on the forums. I'm making this post because I'm wondering if I could get some advice on where exactly is my hardware bottleneck, how back is it, and finally how can I optimize Dolphin given my current hardware.

Video: AMD 6990 4GB
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.21 GHZ
Ram: 12GB

From my research, Dolphin is CPU intensive. Given this, is there anyway I can optimize the in game graphics because I have a very powerful video card.

The game is currently running at about 40FPS on Mario Kart at 1080P, OpenGL, and without any other extra settings.

Thanks!

[Starscream]

Standard response.

Try these settings --> http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/showthread.php?tid=23618

Try the official 3.0 release --> http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/downloads/list

See how the speed is with those settings, then up your graphic settings as needed.

Overclock your CPU if you can, you already know your GPU is good.

[Garteal]

Post your settings.
Mario Kart Wii or Double Dash?
Is it slow throughout gameplay, or only during a certain time?

[jamesluke]

(08-10-2012, 08:06 AM)Garteal Wrote: Post your settings.
Mario Kart Wii or Double Dash?
Is it slow throughout gameplay, or only during a certain time?

Mario Kart Wii is what I tried it on. I'm sorry but I'm not exactly sure how to post my settings without typing everything in. Is there another way?
I do also have the most recent version of Dolphin at 64bit
The game is chunky in the loading screens under Direct X11; however, with OpenGL it is consistent around 40FPS

[Garteal]

Use the snipping tool that comes with Windows 7 to take screenshots of your settings.

[jamesluke]

I installed this individuals build, as seen in the following link https://sites.google.com/site/ryancollinsdolphinbuilds/builds , and I'm getting consistent 60 FPS after adjusting the resolution to 1080P (only modification I made). This might be a good reference for other newbies. I'm not sure exactly what this person did but it appears to work well with my machine.

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I assume you want 60FPS to have steady gameplay

[ExtremeDude2]

(08-10-2012, 08:15 AM)Garteal Wrote: Use the snipping tool that comes with Windows 7 to take screenshots of your settings.

Love that tool :3

[jamesluke]

Oh, it was your build I got ExtremeDude2 lol

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Anyway, it works fine. Thanks for providing your build online. Made things very easy for me. Appreciate everyone's help.

[ExtremeDude2]

You're welcome

[NaturalViolence]

He needs to OC his cpu or upgrade.