So I have an i5 3570k and an nvidia gtx 550 ti (kind of a bad gpu). My gpu clearly bottlenecks my cpu because of the fact that I have noticed that in monster hunter 3, the framerate drops as the video card struggles to render when there are many monsters on screen (fps drops about 5 frames maximum but it's still very annoying). I'm using 2x IR with EFB copy to scale, no AF and no AA. I was wondering if there is any way of configurating it so that my gpu has an easier time emulating? Thank you in advance
You can drop it down to 1xIR to see if that helps. That is the only thing other than AA that I know of that can greatly affect GPU load.
GTX 550 Ti? Kind of a bad GPU.. :/
For current PC games, it'll struggle on high settings (it was mid-range when it came out), but for Dolphin it does pretty good in a great deal of games. Most games can handle 4x IR without issue, and 3x IR for GPU intensive games. Dunno about MH3, but it shouldn't be that GPU intensive at 2x IR. It might actually be a CPU bottleneck; try going to 1x IR to verify this. If you still get slowdowns at 1x IR, OC your CPU.
Nope, at 1x it runs absolutely perfect but it looks so ugly >.<. I'll try and save up to buy another gpu, will a gtx 660 do the job? Will it help using an older revision for now? the framerate only drops when there are many monsters on screen and mainly it just drops like 1 or 2 frames, the maximum being 5 when there were 2 boss monsters and a lot of smaller monsters on screen
Yeah, a GTX 660 would do the trick, but before you go that route, you might want to exhaust your available options. What are your Dolphin settings? Do you see a difference in when switching backends? If there's any way to OC your 550 Ti that might help as well.
A GTX550Ti is not in anyway a weak card, there was a while back we discovered some GPUs were unable to exit idle mode when using dolphin, try downloading GPU-Z and make sure the card isn't downclocking itself, if i remember correctly the solution was to setting Accurate texture cache to safe and raising IR.
(08-13-2013, 04:40 AM)Zee530 Wrote: [ -> ]if i remember correctly the solution was to setting Accurate texture cache to safe and raising IR.
That's not a solution, that's a dumb workaround for randomly increasing GPU load, which may or may not work.
I just noticed while playing that my CPU is now way hotter than what it was before, just yesterday i was hitting 50C while playing and around 38-39C idle, now I'm at 40-42C idle and around 80 while playing. I'm freaking out what could this be? Could it be that I need to re-apply thermal paste?
EDIT: Ifound out that my CPU was actually overclocking itself up to 3,8GHz (don't know why) so I disabled turbo boost in the BIOS but my temp still goes up to 80 while playing when before it was at around 50C. Will re-applying thermal paste make it the way it was before?
Maybe a CPU overload? I´ve just read that some CPUs (Pentium Dual-Core and higher) have a function called SpeedStep, that makes your processor to either overclock or underclock automatically, depending on how loaded your system is. (Boy, I just don´t believe you are still having temp problems.)
Just a thought: If your CPU overclocks automatically, there must be a system overload or something. Try closing some unnecessary tasks in the Windows Task Manager and tell us the results.
neobrain Wrote:That's not a solution, that's a dumb workaround for randomly increasing GPU load, which may or may not work.
So when can we expect your patch?
From what I gather the issue is that the GPU thread stalls constantly. PC games don't. So the drivers kick into low power mode during the stalls and don't have enough time to "wake up" before the next stall. Thus it ends up stuck in low power mode the entire time.
oliverfrancisco Wrote:Maybe a CPU overload? I´ve just read that some CPUs (Pentium Dual-Core and higher) have a function called SpeedStep, that makes your processor to either overclock or underclock automatically, depending on how loaded your system is. (Boy, I just don´t believe you are still having temp problems.)
Speedstep can only downclock (throttling). And his cpu isn't throttling. And it's been around a lot longer than pentium dual core (I'm guessing you meant to say pentium D). It's been around since pentium mobile.
oliverfrancisco Wrote:Just a thought: If your CPU overclocks automatically, there must be a system overload or something. Try closing some unnecessary tasks in the Windows Task Manager and tell us the results.
That makes no sense.
@linker357
80C is still a normal temperature for stock cooling on ivy bridge. A little hot but still within the operating range. You are using stock cooling correct? I really doubt it's the thermal paste. Either the cooler came loose (very rare), the fanspeed is too low, or something is blocking the airflow. Did you use stock thermal paste or aftermarket? Have you considered buying an aftermarket cooler?
Turbo boost is the reason why it was overclocking itself. It would not do that if the chip was running too hot.
And they're right about your gpu. It's more likely that it's throttling. It should be fast enough. Go into nvidia control panel and set the power mode to prefer maximum performance and hit apply.