Xenoblade Chronicles

[vishy92]

Hi!
I'm trying to play the game on a Core 2 Duo e6850 (3 ghz) and i get sever slowdowns in fights.
So my question is will overclocking it to 3.6 ghz help? If not much i wont buy a new cpu cooler than.
If any1 has experience with this i would appreciate the help
thx

[admin89]

Quote:So my question is will overclocking it to 3.6 ghz help?

By alot
I could guess 5-10 FPS

[vishy92]

Thx! Any1 here whose familiar with these old kinda core 2's willing to help me overlock it?
I'm kinda noobish with these kinda things. Only thing i can do is tinker with jumperfree stuff in bios (by this i mean changing dram freqency and cpu multiplier. wich is locked at 9 so i cant do it that way) but im not sure what to set to get it working.

[yodenny]

Have you tried Accurate Vbeam Emulation on properties? it speeds up my game by sum. not sure if this works with everyone Goodluck

[vishy92]

yeah i use it. I know how to set it up. I just get cpu limited. In big battles fps drops to 17-20. Only thing what helps me with speed is opencl since it releives the cpu a bit of calculating or whatnot.

[admin89]

Quote:
jumperfree stuff in bios

Asus Mobo ?
My Gigabyte G41 mobo has "Fine CPU clock Ratio" (+0.5x) .E5300 2.6GHz OC :
_3.4GHz : Keep max "CPU clock Ratio" = 13x , "CPU Frequency" = 262
_3.6GHz : i change "CPU clock Ratio" from 13x to 12x and increase "CPU Frequency" from 262 to 288
I could go even further (3.9GHz) but i choose the safe side -> 3.6GHz (Max temp on full load : 56 degree celsius)

[vishy92]

Yep. An old p5k. I have an outdated bios but its something similar to yours. My multiplier is locked between 6 and 9. 9 being 3.0 ghz.
I need to alter fsb freqvency and voltage, but i have no idea how. Hence my asking for help.
To be exact i know how. I just dont know the values and whats safe or not. Thats why i asked if some1 was familiar with these older core 2 duos.
I didnt find anything exact on the web. Just generic stuff. Wich im not risking.

Edit: regarding temps i get around 50 under heavy load degrees with a stock intel cooler (Mind it's now more than 4 years old). My video card on the other hand likes overheating 9800gtx+ OC a badly made one

[admin89]

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Quote:Regarding temps i get around 50 under heavy load degrees with a stock intel cooler

Temps will go up when you overclock
You can try 333x9 = 3.0GHz then go higher (360x9) until you get 3.6GHz , keep your Vcore under 1.5v
Run Prime95 for 3 hours to test the stability of your system

[vishy92]

I know they will get higher. I already chose a cooler. Cheap one,but still:D
Btw I have 4x1gb ddr2 ram and when i try to set the freq to 1066 it wont boot. It works fine with 800.
Question: wont the ram freq. bottleneck the cpu? How can i get it to work with 1066? ( probably the timings are off, but i dont have the case of the rams anymore.)
If i change the fsb freqvency i will have to change the dram voltage and timing as well amiright?

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A completely unrelated question if i may. Whats your opinion on windows 8? Performance and accessibility wise.

[admin89]

The difference between 1066MHz and 1600MHz is only 1-2FPS when you use "EFB copies to Ram"
Xenoblade doesn't need "EFB copies to Ram" . Dual channel (2x2) is abit faster than Single Channel(1x4) , maybe 0-1 FPS lol
Meh , Ram doesn't mean anything to Dolphin unless you use "EFB copies to Ram" . You should leave it at 800MHz
Recommend : 2GB Ram for windows x86 and 4GB Ram for windows x64

Quote:Whats your opinion on windows 8?

Good so far , not benefit anything to Dolphin though