smoothrunes Wrote:am I looking at any long term damage from OCing what it is exactly that I need to increase, what signs do I need to look out for that I'm reaching the OC limit etc.
One thing to watch out for is high voltages (vcore). That's a good way to insta-fry your machine. Your CPU often has safegaurds to shutdown before it reaches unsafe temps (although you shouldn't push it that far to begin with) but there are no gaurdrails so-to-speak when you mess with the voltages. Stay (well) below 1.4v to be safe, and if you're paranoid, don't raise it at all unless your machine becomes unstable. Like I said, you can easily squeeze out 400MHz or so without changing voltages.
For temps, just make sure you have decent cooling, and actively monitor them during Dolphin usage. Anything nearing 90 C is a warning that something's wrong. With good cooling, you shouldn't even reach 70 C when really working Dolphin. I've yet to break 60 C under heavy, prolonged Dolphin loads, and my fans are only running at 30%. Anything from 40 C ~ 80 C is normal depending on your cooling setup, and all of those temps are safe.
As for what you should be looking for, make sure your mobo supports overclocking (a quick googling will tell you). If so, you're going to have to take a trip to the UEFI (the "new" BIOS) and mess around with some options there. Again, google how one overclocks on your mobo model. There are probably a lot of guides online. Again, there's no long term damage if you take into account heat, voltage, and system stability.
Under normal circumstances, your CPU could probably run 24/7 at full-blast for years (a decade?) before it'd even start to show signs of failure, and by that time, you'll obviously be in the market for a new machine anyway. If you buy a nice car man, you better drive it fast
I'll have to think about it. OCing for a single game in an emulation environment doesn't sound like something anyone has ever done before. I probably won't lose any sleep over F-Zero not running optimally, but I imagine I would lose sleep if I messed around with hardware settings without a real grip on what it is I'm doing, at least for the moment.
smoothrunes Wrote:OCing for a single game in an emulation environment doesn't sound like something anyone has ever done before.
You haven't been in the community for very long then
Overclocking is very common here, especially for older hardware (pre Sandy Bridge) to get acceptable performance in many games. Sometimes Dolphin won't run many games well given the system unless it's overclocked. Anyway, take your time. Overclocking is no longer the black art it used to be, and many mobo manufacturers have made the process dead-simple. That said, do some research beforehand. Last bit of advice would be to take it slow (100MHz increases?). You'll know if something's borked if you take things in small steps.
so im new to emulations iv dicked around with settings iv got dual core processing on but is there any way i can fix this from crashing also where can i find this "hacked buffer" option... i cant find it anywhere...
as for my PCs specs .... well it could handle running far cry 3 on ultra x4
(09-08-2013, 11:52 AM)wunderbars Wrote: [ -> ]so im new to emulations iv dicked around with settings iv got dual core processing on but is there any way i can fix this from crashing also where can i find this "hacked buffer" option... i cant find it anywhere...
as for my PCs specs .... well it could handle running far cry 3 on ultra x4
You mean the vertex streaming hack? It's under OpenGL in the newest builds (at dolpin-emu.org) You need to test the back-ends and see which works best for your set-up.
Also, unfortunately running PC games well is no indication for running Dolphin well. Your CPU power is what's most important, not so for FC3.
direct3d9 and direct3d11 both work fine for me just without dual core on the game is slow but stable with it on it crashes randomly... anyway my point is can it be fixed... som1 said that hacker buffer option would fix it 100% thats why i ask... i ran it with opengl and it was laggy as hell.. any ideas? also i updated my dolphin from 3.5 to 3.5-367
why not? my game seems to be crashing less when i updated it...
but still crashes... srsly anyone know how to fix this i fix the speed then the game crashes randomly i fix that and sound crackles to shit i fix that and its unstable...
You updated to a horribly old version tho, use the link I gave you
Another one who downloads that old Dolphin build again
. Try the latest build. Now the game runs fullspeed easily. I mean a lot easier than before, but it still depends on what CPU you have.