Quote:Accurate VBeam emulation (in my tests at least) leads to some pretty severe frame drops, although the audio remains perfects. During battles, it'll drop to as low as 30 FPS sometimes. Just be aware of the trade off.
That should be caused by turning off idle skipping, not turning on accurate vbeam emulation.
I almost never disable Idle Skipping since enabling Accurate VBeam alone is enough to do the VBeam Trick for me. I'll re-test it later.
EDIT : Re-tested, same results. When playing with a full-party and encountering 4 or more large enemies, I still get drops down to 30 with Accurate VBeam emulation turned on and having Idle Skipping enabled as well. Without Accurate VBeam emulation, the lowest I get is around 51.
......weird. I'll have to investigate that because that doesn't make sense.
Shonumi is right,I forgot about this - it is specific only for this game,and twilight princess,vbeam effects fps very badly.
But its only these 2 games as far as I know.
Still,it does help with LLE sound,so it might be a tradeoff someone is willing to make ( I would )
Fwiw, Accurate VBeam in ToS does very well for the most part, and it eliminated the minor drops I had (54 FPS usually) to give me a solid 60 FPS in most battles. A few of them suffer pretty badly (ones usually with 4 large enemies). That's kind of a dealbreaker for me since it does pretty well everywhere when Accurate VBeam is off.
I have no problem with sound skipping or anything. Audio is literally perfect. I just get slowdowns when several spells go off at once no. Got up to 3.8GHz. Natural, I know piledriver wont be hitting sb or IB, however, with less power consumption and possibly 15% better IPC (we'll have to wait for release), I can probably OC one like mad with my water loop. Ill be perfectly satisfied at that point. Right now I have suspicion that I might be putting 1055T to its limit, since fsb's between 270 and 280 are the norm maximum from what ive heard. I know AMD has a long way to go, but intel is not an option due to other reasons right now.
But yeah, Having 3 people casting spells will cause some slowdowns (80-90%) right now. The slowdowns are what I can describe as smooth however. No choppy audio or anything of the sort. This would be okay with me if it didn't mess with my attack timings... :/
Quote:Natural, I know piledriver wont be hitting sb or IB, however, with less power consumption and possibly 15% better IPC (we'll have to wait for release I can probably OC one like mad with my water loop.
It's still not going to perform particularly well regardless of how much you OC it.
Quote:Right now I have suspicion that I might be putting 1055T to its limit, since fsb's between 270 and 280 are the norm maximum from what ive heard.
1. Please don't call it the FSB. It is not an FSB clock. In fact it's not even a bus clock. I don't care if most people call it that, it's wrong and spreads confusion.
2. Why are you even increasing the reference clock at all? That's what multipliers are for.
Quote:I know AMD has a long way to go, but intel is not an option due to other reasons right now.
Explain.
1055T isn't a Black Edition so HT overclocking is the only way.
It's not HT overclocking, it's reference clock overclocking. Jesus, why do amd users never use that word?
I didn't realize he had a non-black edition cpu, this makes sense now.
And yeah anything past 260 MHz on the reference clock is really pushing it and almost guaranteed to be unstable. HT 3.0 is only rated up to 2.6GHz (which you reach at a reference clock of 260MHz).
(10-01-2012, 08:06 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:Natural, I know piledriver wont be hitting sb or IB, however, with less power consumption and possibly 15% better IPC (we'll have to wait for release I can probably OC one like mad with my water loop.
It's still not going to perform particularly well regardless of how much you OC it.
Quote:Right now I have suspicion that I might be putting 1055T to its limit, since fsb's between 270 and 280 are the norm maximum from what ive heard.
1. Please don't call it the FSB. It is not an FSB clock. In fact it's not even a bus clock. I don't care if most people call it that, it's wrong and spreads confusion.
2. Why are you even increasing the reference clock at all? That's what multipliers are for.
Quote:I know AMD has a long way to go, but intel is not an option due to other reasons right now.
Explain.
I don't have the money, Im on a decent MB (Crosshair V Formula, black friday was in my favor for AMD products, was the best I could get at the time) and I would like to pair the Intel CPU with a good MB too. Piledriver wont require me to get a new MB and its suited for all of my other needs, and will
Hopefully run with better single thread applications. im just waiting on the release for benchmarks, im not gonna pull a "buy as soon as it comes out" situation like many others did with bulldozer. However, both that and if I was going to buy intel, I would really only go for the i7 (I need the threads for rendering/ VM's :/, plus why not just go for the better if build a whole new rig?). I don't do just gaming, and the water loop was a lucky score (Got some excellent parts from a friend, just need the block and pump). At least it would be compatible for an intel system later on since I have multiple brackets for the water block. Im sorry if FSB bothers you, no one has really told me what the official name is. I usually just say Base Clock to keep things simple, what would be that exact term for this value? I would honestly like to know.
But yeah, the whole point is to just get TOS running with LLE properly, not something like SMG, lol. Sorry I didn't tell you the CPU ddn't have unlocked multipliers XD I don't know why you think that OC'ing it wont help that much, I remember someone managed to get full speed with an 8120 with a little more than 5GHz for SMG somewhere, Ill go look for that interesting find. Sorry if I turn out incorrect.
-Edit: I think it was closer/around 6GHz, still looking.