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Can you please post screenshots of all of your settings? I for one have been unable to get this huge speedup that everyone claims they are getting from accurate vbeam emulation. For me it does not impact performance at all.

(02-21-2011, 11:29 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Can you please post screenshots of all of your settings? I for one have been unable to get this huge speedup that everyone claims they are getting from accurate vbeam emulation. For me it does not impact performance at all.

just check "Accurate Vbeam emulation", no special settings!

Before


After

the only downside is i now have 30fps in stage select screen, where i had 60fps before. But my framerate is very stable 30fps during stages now. I do get 60fps at the title menu now.

(02-21-2011, 09:07 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 OC @ 3.3GHZ

Good luck, you're going to need it.

Its a quad core . Why am I going to need luck?

i don't know, maybe because AMD processors doesn't perform as good as Intel's? I was sick and tired of AMD overheating and the lack of overclocking and quality, so that's why i went back with Intel with this i5 750.

I think Darkshadw should change his specs and tweaks for Dolphin now...my CPU is just slightly overclocked due to the XMP profile from my RAM, but that's it, the only slowdown i get is the 30fps in the stage select menu

(02-21-2011, 11:29 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Can you please post screenshots of all of your settings? I for one have been unable to get this huge speedup that everyone claims they are getting from accurate vbeam emulation. For me it does not impact performance at all.

Check if you have Progressive Scan on, if you do the VBeam Hack will not work.

Wait...with VBeam the framerate is stable for me, but the videos feel like they have skipped frames, if you compare the intro video WITH and then WITHOUT VBeam, you'll probably see what i mean. It doesn't show in the framerates, but the videos themselves feel like they have skipped frames...

using accurate vbeam here, 60 fps 100% of the time.

Quote:Check if you have Progressive Scan on, if you do the VBeam Hack will not work.

I've tried it with progressive scan on and off. Absolutely no difference. I've also tried turning use fps for limiting on/off. Still no difference with accurate vbeam emulation in any game. Not sure why it works for everyone else.

Ironic how skids description is that accurate vbeam emulation should be slower but less accurate than the vbeam hack. Yet it's the exact opposite, faster but less accurate for everyone.

Quote:i don't know, maybe because AMD processors doesn't perform as good as Intel's? I was sick and tired of AMD overheating and the lack of overclocking and quality, so that's why i went back with Intel with this i5 750.

I think Darkshadw should change his specs and tweaks for Dolphin now...my CPU is just slightly overclocked due to the XMP profile from my RAM, but that's it, the only slowdown i get is the 30fps in the stage select menu

On top of the fact that it's an amd cpu it's an athlon II, not a phenom II. Athlon IIs have no L3 cache, and that really hurts dolphin.

Quote:Its a quad core Huh . Why am I going to need luck?

Because dolphin doesn't give a shit that it's a quad core cpu. Dolphin is a dual threaded program. A high end dual core cpu will massively outperform a low end quad core (like yours) in dolphin.

@inteGReddy: well yes, you greatly overclocked your CPU. Sonic Colors was made to be played at 30fps during stages gameplay. Remember some games are locked to play at a certain framerate (i remember some racing games capped at 30fps instead of 60fps). Not everybody overclock their CPU, mine had to, slightly, because of XMP