Quote:One thing that does fix a lot of the shuttering, if not most of it, is enabling the opencl feature. Fixes the audio sync too.
only on fermi, the kernel switching on older opencl capable hardware has too much latency to make it worthwhile. in these cases it is better to use highly optimised cpu texture decoding.
The opencl option doesn't affect audio in any way. It's just a set of texture decoders....
(01-28-2011, 11:20 AM)wetjet Wrote: [ -> ]"More power = more performance"
Not necessarily, it all depends on how you use that power that makes a difference.
In non-computer terms (such that can be understood by all): a muscle man would not be able to transport glasses any faster then an average man, if he was carrying them one after the other.
He will however be much faster, if he carried as many as he could.
(01-28-2011, 11:20 AM)wetjet Wrote: [ -> ]I really wish the devs would add the option to use ALL cores for processing.
In non-computer terms (again, using the same example as above): You can't carry any more glasses than are available at the moment you have to transport them, unless you're willing to wait.
And waiting always produces slowdowns, especially when you don't know how long you'll be waiting...
I could use more technical terms to explain why more than dualcore or a faster GPU won't yield any improvements, but you could be researching all this by yourself.
It's funny how people think they know better about things they've never learned than those who spent years of their life studying it.
Quote:It's funny how people think they know better about things they've never learned than those who spent years of their life studying it.
I find myself thinking this every single day.
(01-29-2011, 06:07 AM)Nolonar Wrote: [ -> ] (01-28-2011, 11:20 AM)wetjet Wrote: [ -> ]"More power = more performance"
Not necessarily, it all depends on how you use that power that makes a difference.
In non-computer terms (such that can be understood by all): a muscle man would not be able to transport glasses any faster then an average man, if he was carrying them one after the other.
He will however be much faster, if he carried as many as he could.
(01-28-2011, 11:20 AM)wetjet Wrote: [ -> ]I really wish the devs would add the option to use ALL cores for processing.
In non-computer terms (again, using the same example as above): You can't carry any more glasses than are available at the moment you have to transport them, unless you're willing to wait.
And waiting always produces slowdowns, especially when you don't know how long you'll be waiting...
I could use more technical terms to explain why more than dualcore or a faster GPU won't yield any improvements, but you could be researching all this by yourself.
It's funny how people think they know better about things they've never learned than those who spent years of their life studying it.
than why on my seconday computer with a gtx 260 and a q6600 at 3.2ghz do i get stuttering a lot and tons more frame dips at 1920x1080 in games than my primary computer with radeon 5870 and i7 3.4ghz????
Of course better hardware means better results.I don't think you know what your talking about and your your just being arrogrant.No benchmarks online for this stuff anyways cause its illegal.I wanna see some 2560x1600 benchmarks with the 2500k and 2600k
Quote:Of course better hardware means better results.I don't think you know what your talking about and your your just being arrogrant.No benchmarks online for this stuff anyways cause its illegal.I wanna see some 2560x1600 benchmarks with the 2500k and 2600k
What? That made no sense to me. What's illegal?
Quote:than why on my seconday computer with a gtx 260 and a q6600 at 3.2ghz do i get stuttering a lot and tons more frame dips at 1920x1080 in games than my primary computer with radeon 5870 and i7 3.4ghz????
Because it's better hardware. Nolonar just said that because he got annoyed that you posted "I really wish the devs would add the option to use ALL cores for processing.". As if further multithreading is easy to implement and/or a viable way to significantly improve performance. In this case it's not. And since he's used to talking to idiots on these forums (we all are, 99% of forum visitors are extremely computer illiterate if you get my meaning) he felt the need to use metaphors to explain it in a non-technical way. The other point he was trying to make was that if your cpu is the bottleneck having a better gpu won't improve performance (obviously). I personally think the metaphor was harder to understand than just saying it.
I'm sorry if my metaphor was hard to understand, and I'm sorry I seemed arrogant (it's just hard to teach people things without seeming so)
About your "bigger = better" mentality:
Did you know, that Nvidia graphics have always been more powerful than comparable ATI graphics?
Can you imagine why ATI yet remained competitive?
Did you know, that the Intel P4 have always been "faster" than their AMD counterparts (in GHz)?
Yet why did most gamers choose AMD over Intel?
While Nvidia chose the "path of power", ATI took the "path of efficiency" improving their AA and AF filters, adding features to reduce the GPU's strain (like not drawing Pixels, if they'd end up behind other Pixels) and a lot more (including power consumption)
For Intel it was simply a question of architecture.
It's the same reason as to why an i7 @ 3GHz is almost always better, than an i5 or i3 or C2Q @ 3GHz. They're all (almost) equally powerful, but definitely not equally built.
How about YOU explain to me, why my new i7 @ 1.7 GHz (~2000 MIPS per 100% load per core -> ~12000 MIPS for 600% load) is twice as fast than my old P4 @ 2GHz (~1000 MIPS per 100% load -> ~500 MIPS for 50% load) even though my P4 is clearly "faster" by 300 MHz?
Does that explain it better?
Does this explanation seem less arrogant?
I do hope so...
(01-29-2011, 10:41 AM)smackjack22 Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think you know what your talking about and your your just being arrogrant.No benchmarks online for this stuff anyways cause its illegal
I lol'd.
Running Dolphin isn't illegal, running games that have not been purchased by yourself is illegal.
May i have your current IP address so I can report you to the Internet Police?
Ok let me try a multi-thread metaphor. Say you need to do this simple math: (2+5) * 8. There's 2 things to be done here: Add together 2 and 5, and the other is to multiply with 8. So why not split this work evenly among 2 cores, eh? Oh wait... anyone else spotting a problem?
(01-29-2011, 09:43 PM)KHRZ Wrote: [ -> ]Say you need to do this simple math: (2+5) * 8. There's 2 things to be done here: Add together 2 and 5, and the other is to multiply with 8. So why not split this work evenly among 2 cores, eh?
Noooo, most comps nowadays haz quadcore, split them among quadcores!!!! Dolphin can do this math on dualcorez already!!!
I was kidding by the way...