Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Er... you SHOULD have a CPU bottleneck in a lot of games... ESPECIALLY twilight princess. I don't know if it's still the case, but a hack for that game was removed a while ago, and not even the best CPU for dolphin can run it 100% all of the time. (note: possible slight exaggeration)

Also, a 7850 really shouldn't have problems with dolphin. If you're adamant that something with your GPU is causing dolphin to run slowly, I'd say to try overclocking it. I believe the HD 7000 series were the first AMD cards to support memory voltage control (correct me if I'm wrong on that), and memory is what you'd need to overclock for dolphin. If the problem persists, or you have other reasons for buying a 290 (ex.: benchmarking, competitive overclocking, really slow bitcoin mining, etc.), then you should get it. But, keep in mind that companies aren't allowed to release 290s or 290xs with custom coolers yet (I think the date was march that non-ref 290s and 290xs would be releasable), so you'd either have to slap on another cooler or deal with the horrendous reference cooler.

Lumbeeslayer Wrote:Thank You.. Oh and your sure i'll be able to play 4x internal resolution with 8x anti-aliasing with no performance hit on Twilight Princess. Its sill kind of ironic how dolphin is only using 800mb of 2gb on my graphics card, would I expect to see the same issue with the Radeon r290.

Of course.....why would that be strange?

I can count the number of PC games that can use 2GB of memory at 1080p with MSAA on one hand. Dolphin emulates GC/Wii games which have much smaller texture and mesh assets than a modern PC game.

kinkinkijkin Wrote:Also, a 7850 really shouldn't have problems with dolphin

It will if you do 4x IR and 8xMSAA at the same time. Those are some crazy settings. If he just knocked that down to 3x IR with 4xMSAA he would be fine and wouldn't notice any difference in image quality.

If anyone is wondering why I'm responding to a thread that's been dead for 2 weeks this was posted while I was away and it's been in my backlog since then.