(06-30-2012, 03:55 AM)LordVador Wrote: [ -> ]@Shonumi gave you the answer :
(06-30-2012, 02:13 AM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ]i5-2500K/i5-3750K + a mobo that supports overclocking e.g. the Z68 will run most games at fullspeed with LLE audio. Nothing AMD offers right now can do this, so you'll have to go Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge and OC that. It's the only way.
Well, I wanted to double check because the example he cited for a motherboard (the Z68) was a different one than what was cited in the thread (AsRock P67). I was curious if what he was suggested was a different route than what the thread he linked was about.
Sorry if all of this seems childish and ignorant of me, but I just want to be super sure that if I dip my feet into this stuff I don't have to buy something else a few months down the road.
I would recommend you to get a Z77 motherboard as they support the Ivy Bridge CPU's and PCIe 3.0.
They'll be a bit more expensive, but you won't have to upgrade your motherboard if you're planning to get a new CPU (1155 socket obviously) or when you decide to get a PCIe 3.0 GPU.
You can use these PCIe 3.0 GPU's with a PCIe 2.0 motherboard too, but you'll get a minor to major improvement if you actually use it on a PCIe 3.0 motherboard.
(06-30-2012, 04:14 AM)Garteal Wrote: [ -> ]I would recommend you to get a Z77 motherboard as they support the Ivy Bridge CPU's and PCIe 3.0.
They'll be a bit more expensive, but you won't have to upgrade your motherboard if you're planning to get a new CPU (1155 socket obviously) or when you decide to get a PCIe 3.0 GPU.
You can use these PCIe 3.0 GPU's with a PCIe 2.0 motherboard too, but you'll get a minor to major improvement if you actually use it on a PCIe 3.0 motherboard.
Alrighties, in hopes of making this a little easier on me to make sure everything's fine and dandy, and less back and forth of not being sure, I think I'll list what I have and what will be replaced, and hopefully you guys can tell me if all of this works.
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G43 LGA 1155 Intel Z77
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz
CPU Fan: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 580 (Already have this)
PSU: Antec EarthWatts EA-650 GREEN 650W (Already have this)
RAM: 16 GB (Already)
Is all of that a good rig for Dolphin? I assume if Dolphin can run well, I have a machine that can probably run everything very well outside of the ArmA III. That game scares me. I bought the GPU in preperation for that game, in fact.
That looks like an awesome build. You will run most games really well at fullspeed, and you can overclock when you can't.
Super Mario Galaxy 1&2 will run at fullspeed, even with LLE at stock clocks.
I recommend you do overclock your CPU a bit as some levels are more demanding than others.
The Last Story will run very solid if you overclock. It's a VERY demanding game and you will definitely drop some frames at times.
But don't worry, it won't be anything gamebreaking. I've finished the game, and the lowest I've probably gotten was around 23-24 FPS.
-ARMA-
I recently got ARMA II and am playing DayZ a lot. I get very solid performance on everything at its max except for post processing and anti-aliasing.
The draw distances are forced by the servers, so altering that doesn't make a difference.
Getting around 25~100FPS depending on my location.
You're definitely going to be able to run ARMA III. Perhaps not at the maximum settings possible, but you shouldn't. So don't worry.
Hopefully ARMA III will be more optimized. I hope they address the trees too, as they really like eating my FPS.
Looking forward to ARMA III myself.
Hmmm, I see. I feel very comfortable getting into this. Is TLS' performance hiccups counting the experimental compiler? I assume that will be fixed if it becomes stable in other compilers.
Yeah, this is with the JITL Recompiler which definitely gives a performance hit.
I do recommend you use an older build (read the game thread) for this game as you'll gain a nice speed boost from it.
Skid was working on improving the performance of EFB to RAM in his experimental builds, which I'm not sure of if they've already been merged to the master now.
So try both the old and newest build and see which works best for you.
For the new build, try toggling between RAM and Texture in-game, and see if RAM gives (nearly) the same FPS as Texture.
(Again this has been talked about several times in the game thread. It's also mentioned in the wiki)
Mmhm. Just a curious question here: I was playing New Play Control: Pikmin with DSP LLE on. The fact I'm having some fps issues with a game like THAT really emphasizes that my CPU is a massive bottleneck to playing games, or have I made a mistake somewhere? It runs fine without it, but with sound issues.
Did you enable lle on thread ?
That I did. Would that enhance or hinder performance?
