Is your CPU staying clocked at 4.2Ghz the whole time when playing RE4?
You may need to OC just a bit more to get full speed.
Also: Speedstep is perfectly safe being off. It's better having it off (IMO) because with it on you will frequently get stutters in just about everything in windows when the CPU is changing clocks. And it can be quite annoying. 40c Idle at 4.2Ghz is good idle temps.
I've got a first gen i7 950(Read
ower and heat whore 125wTDP. These things get hot) and I run it at 4 and 4.2Ghz and my idle temps are usually between 43 and 47c on the cores.(CPU itself is only like 30 something) and my CPU is still running strong.(Been running this OC with speedstep turned off for 2 years now)
That's a relief
thanks for the information, what frequency do you think I should aim for? 4.4Ghz? Also, I've got my voltage set to 1.25v and was told to gradually lower the voltage and boot into windows each time to check for crashing, and then once I got a crash, to go back up by 0.01v. I have yet to do this, is it safe at 1.25v?
Also, I noticed a guy in this Thread by the name of domjam, we've got incredibly similar specs and he's overclocked to 4.5Ghz, same CPU as me. Says he gets audio problems regardless...
this sucks
Oh, I almost forgot. I'm a little confused by what people mean by running full-speed... Mind briefly explaining it, I think I've had some mind blank. Also, a few people have said in other places to try changing Framelimit, or disable Idle Skipping or Disable Accurate Vbeam Emulation. Are any of those going to help?
(04-01-2013, 07:00 PM)DocBox Wrote: [ -> ]That's a relief thanks for the information, what frequency do you think I should aim for? 4.4Ghz? Also, I've got my voltage set to 1.25v and was told to gradually lower the voltage and boot into windows each time to check for crashing, and then once I got a crash, to go back up by 0.01v. I have yet to do this, is it safe at 1.25v?
In the beginning try 4.2GHz and make tests for stability.
(04-01-2013, 07:00 PM)DocBox Wrote: [ -> ]Also, I noticed a guy in this Thread by the name of domjam, we've got incredibly similar specs and he's overclocked to 4.5Ghz, same CPU as me. Says he gets audio problems regardless... this sucks
Because some very demanding games won't work perfectly even with that CPU. Some games won't run full-speed. Some games will have sound issues even with LLE.
(04-01-2013, 07:00 PM)DocBox Wrote: [ -> ]Oh, I almost forgot. I'm a little confused by what people mean by running full-speed... Mind briefly explaining it, I think I've had some mind blank
Running games to 30/60fps is full-speed. Permanently or with speed drops is another story.
(04-01-2013, 07:00 PM)DocBox Wrote: [ -> ]Also, a few people have said in other places to try changing Framelimit, or disable Idle Skipping or Disable Accurate Vbeam Emulation. Are any of those going to help?
Disabling/enabling Idle Skipping + enabling/disabling VBeam may help with LLE if you can't run games full-speed. It seems to depend on the games and on systems though.
Soooo... I'll fiddle around with those two settings. May just come to it not ever being able to work
sad times... RE4 on the Wii on a HDTV looks so awful...
Could just get the PS3/360 version even though it's inferior in some ways. (Poorer audio. Seems based on hybrid Wii/PC/PS2. No graphical upgrades unlike Code Veronica HD)
it took 1.24 volts for me to get 4.5 ghz and il tell you that at 4.5 ghz my fps stays constantly at 30 fps this is at 1920x1080 with D9 4x IR no AA and LLE though i can use 4x AA aswell .so once u get ur OC its highly unlikly that ur cpu is to slow.I dont think the audio crackling is because the cpu is to slow. as this only seems to happen after playing the game for an hour or so. the audio seems to get worse and worse if you continue playing once it happens though .this is with the 3.5 build. only way i no how to reslove it is to restart the emulator.i can allso tell you that the game The last story runs with no issues for me and thats one of if not the most demanding game for the wii. but to other people that are reading this. dose anyone no if the newer builds fix the audio issue for this game?and if so what audio settings you have to use.
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domjam, yes, the latest development version of Dolphin (3.5-1244) fixes the audio problem.
Do you mean another build? Because there is no 1244 on the downloads page. It only goes up to 1233
Oops, typo. I meant 3.5-1233.