@JMC47 - Careful how you say that. Technically, the game is running at "fullspeed" in Dolphin if you can hit 100% Wii speed. It's just that sometimes 100% Wii speed isn't a solid 30 FPS (or 25 for PAL) on the console or in Dolphin, thanks to the way the game was programmed.
Settings alone won't do anything for you. With this game it's all about hardware power. The Last Story is one of the most demanding games in Dolphin.
Well, you don't, not even close. An OC'ed Pentium Anniversary (Pentium G3258) will run this game just fine. An i5-4690K will do even better. So you just need a Haswell CPU that can OC ($70 or $240, respectively for the Pentium and i5).
An Ivy Bridge CPU at 3.4GHz is simply too slow. Yes, TLS is that demanding. It's not a joke, this game pushes Dolphin (and even real Wiis) to the limit. The thing is, you don't have an unlocked -K model. You can't OC with that CPU.
It's fine depending on what your settings are. Remember, modern PC games and emulators like Dolphin use the GPU in different ways. In Dolphin, the GPU determines how high you can raise your Internal Resolution and AA without creating a bottleneck. If your CPU is the bottleneck (which is the case for your system and this game) then reducing these settings will not speed up the game (in contrast to PC games where you can usually tone down the graphics for speed, because the GPU is the bottleneck).
So yeah, fiddling with settings is futile. You need better hardware.
firehawkx Wrote:I have gone through a lot of pages (from 20 to 40 on this thread), and the old thread a bit as well trying to figure out what settings to use to make this game play at a constant 30fps...
Settings alone won't do anything for you. With this game it's all about hardware power. The Last Story is one of the most demanding games in Dolphin.
firehawkx Wrote:In the last few most recent pages, it seems that unless you have a 1000$ cpu + mega overclock, it will not work perfectly...
Well, you don't, not even close. An OC'ed Pentium Anniversary (Pentium G3258) will run this game just fine. An i5-4690K will do even better. So you just need a Haswell CPU that can OC ($70 or $240, respectively for the Pentium and i5).
firehawkx Wrote:I do have a i7... 3rd gen... 3770 @ 3.4ghz... do i absolutely need to OC it somehow to get more power to run this?
An Ivy Bridge CPU at 3.4GHz is simply too slow. Yes, TLS is that demanding. It's not a joke, this game pushes Dolphin (and even real Wiis) to the limit. The thing is, you don't have an unlocked -K model. You can't OC with that CPU.
firehawkx Wrote:Graphic card is a 7850 (ati/amd)... good enough to run Battlefield4 or any other graphic demanding game maxed out... but is it enough for this game with latest dolphin? (got version 4.0-2638 earlier today)
It's fine depending on what your settings are. Remember, modern PC games and emulators like Dolphin use the GPU in different ways. In Dolphin, the GPU determines how high you can raise your Internal Resolution and AA without creating a bottleneck. If your CPU is the bottleneck (which is the case for your system and this game) then reducing these settings will not speed up the game (in contrast to PC games where you can usually tone down the graphics for speed, because the GPU is the bottleneck).
So yeah, fiddling with settings is futile. You need better hardware.