Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

(08-12-2011, 08:31 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:But wouldn't downscaling or displaying the image on a higher res monitor affect GPU performance?

As long as you're rendering at the same internal resolution, no, not in any significant way. Plus you usually have lots of extra gpu power since dolphin is usually cpu bound, and the linear scaling that dolphin does uses next to nothing in terms of shader throughput. Using a higher output resolution (ideally matching your monitors physical display resolution) will improve image quality even without raising the internal resolution just by providing better upscaling.

@Yanazake
Use stretch to window border or whatever they call that option now (it's one of the aspect ratio options).

OK that makes sense, however I still wouldn't with the GPU the OP has since it's weak.

You're absolutely right. I've been trying different resolutions and there was some speed loss here and there. Althought I fixed the wii resolutions, I'll have to change that again to try to play cube games. Not really a problem.

BTW, the screen resolution problem was solved already, if I didn'd say so already XD Thanks for your help, guys. I'll keep testing other resolutions, but it certainly would be easier if I could set some custom options for each game to override default options. :/