(01-13-2013, 08:43 AM)Xalphenos Wrote: [ -> ]There really isn't a corolation between being able to play modern pc games and being able to play dolphin. Basically your cpu isn't up to the task. You could probably play some of the less demanding games but you can forget about the Mario games. You pretty much need an i5 to make them playable and the general advice given around here to play them full speed is sand bridge at 4.5ghz or ivy bridge at 4.2ghz. my only advice is to rebuild. Even an i3 or pentium would perform better than what you have.
Timeout. Is there any way to software overclock Ivy Bridge without Intel Desktop Control Center, or are these Hardware OC only?
Quote:Is there any way to software overclock Ivy Bridge without Intel Desktop Control Center, or are these Hardware OC only?
What does that even mean?
Do you mean OCing with applications vs. BIOS/UEFI (both of which are software used to modify hardware properties)?
I didn't even know there were any applications that could OC Intel cpus until now. But why would you want to OC via applications anyways?
(01-13-2013, 01:50 PM)admin89 Wrote: [ -> ]http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-major-slowdowns-from-3-5-147-on
Try the official Dolphin 3.5 (without any number behind)
I was originally running the official 3.5 release. Having the exact same bad performance. Updating to the dev build was just one of my many attempts to get better performance.
(01-13-2013, 11:09 AM)Soopah Wrote: [ -> ]do you use DSP hle or LLE?
cause in the video you posted the guy use DSP HLE
I tried both. It ran better with DSP HLE. Switching to DSP LLE recompiler the sound stutter got even worse.
When I first read your post I guess I glossed over the nsmb and just saw galaxy. I agree with NaturalViolence you should be getting better fps on nsmb. You will need efb to texture and not ram. You wont see blue coins and yellow coins wont spin but the game should be playable.
To have some comparison, I just posted
my results in the The Legend of Zelda: The Wind waker CPU Benchmark thread and it's not looking pretty.
I feel that with some CPU specific optimization Dolphin should be able to get more out of this APU. At least that's what some
CPU and
GPU benchmarks lead me to believe. Or maybe GC/Wii emulation really is one of those edge cases where this chip is just overwhelmingly bad.
More likely something is just wrong with your system or your dolphin configuration. Those WW scores are about half of what I would expect from your system.
Try turning on lock threads to cores and tell me if you see any improvement.
(01-14-2013, 08:38 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]More likely something is just wrong with your system or your dolphin configuration. Those WW scores are about half of what I would expect from your system.
Try turning on lock threads to cores and tell me if you see any improvement.
Oh man, I hope you're right. Though I'm wondering what it could be that only affects Dolphin but nothing else. I got like 400 games in my steam library and everything that I tested, Skyrim, Saints Row the Third, Assasins Creed III, Spec Ops the Line, Dirt 3, Batman Arkham City and Burnout Paradise all run fine at 720p in medium or high settings. In Dirt and Batman I checked and the framerate is about the same as hexus.net reports it in
their review of the chip.
Config wise I used the setting that were linked in the official benchmark thread.
I tried what you suggested and locked the threads to the cores (I tested with 3.5 release again, instead of 3.0 which I used in the official benchmark thread, since it doesn't seem to make any difference anyways). In performance monitor you can now see that instead of the load being distributed amongst all four cores two of them stay around 100% all the time while the other two idle.
Also I checked with CPU-Z to find out if Turbo Core is working (it's turned on in the Bios). And it is. The CPU is constantly running between 3.6 and 4.0 GHz while Dolphin is active. Windows Task Manager always seems to report the 3.4GHz, even when it's down at 1GHz while idle. Also I already tried Bios settings where I turned of Core 3 and 4 as well as PowerNow and set it to permanent 4 GHz.. doesn't change a thing.
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(01-14-2013, 10:23 AM)Luu Wrote: [ -> ]Oh man, I hope you're right. Though I'm wondering what it could be that only affects Dolphin but nothing else. I got like 400 games in my steam library and everything that I tested, Skyrim, Saints Row the Third, Assasins Creed III, Spec Ops the Line, Dirt 3, Batman Arkham City and Burnout Paradise all run fine at 720p in medium or high settings. In Dirt and Batman I checked and the framerate is about the same as hexus.net reports it in their review of the chip.
Like I said earlier there really is no correlation between modern PC games and dolphin. A High end gaming pc will probably also be able to play dolphin but you can build a really good gaming system that won't be very good for most games on dolphin.
Trinity is piledriver based so there are only two modules and it looks like dolphin is treating it like its a dual core processor.
Is there anyone else on the forums with bulldozer or piledriver chips that have discussed the results they get? I haven't been here long and have only seen people talk about how bulldozer/piledriver should theoretically perform. His wind waker benchmarks aren't that far behind what I posted for a phenom ii x2 550, in fact his second save fps bests it. Maybe this is the best trinity can do on Dolphin?