Okay, I have to mention some qualifiers for the post that MaJoR made using my data.
Firstly, I did not use one set of settings for all the builds, that would be incredibly shortsighted. I'm still perfecting this method, but rather, I did this.
In any old build (pre-4.0) I use D3D9 when it can run the game. In this game, I had to use OpenGL mostly because D3D9 would crash on stage-load.
Dualcore had to be turned off in several of the really old builds due to stability issues. I did various other configurations on the old builds to make them as fast as possible.
My test was Fountain of Dreams with two Human Characters (Yoshi controlled by both) and I let the framerate stabilize and recorded the result. This worked pretty well for most builds. Depending on the FPS controls, I had to either disable framelimiter altogether, or just hold TAB. VArious builds were broken, so I had to make my choices very carefully.
2.0 was extremely slow, I don't know why. I configured it as best as I could. I used D3D9, EFB2Texture, Dualcore, and made sure to look through the convoluted UI.
As of 4.0, I switched to OpenGL and used the Vertex Streaming Hack.
On older builds, namely the first two, there were a lot of problems getting it to run at all. The second one I could not get the game to not crash, but it was running pretty fast before it crashed. Because it crashed, I gave it a 0.
If this post is scatterbrained, it's mostly because I compiled the explanations from notes. Feel free to call the results into question, but don't assume I didn't at least put basic thought processes into it.
r1007 dips to 0 FPS? Is it that accurate? :p
r1007 crashes on stage load, thus I gave it a zero. I was unable to get a reading.
Is it possible to revive dead sectors on a hard drive? I own a 250GB External WD drive and a few years back i noticed that once i went below 50GB of free space, any new files i sent in would report a disk/CRC error. However if i deleted something within the drive and it went back above 50GB i could continue to send in new data as far as the free space was above 50GB. At the time i simply went out and bought a 500GB one but that one is now almost full and i don't intend to buy anything less than a 1TB which i can't afford at the moment, but here i am in dire need of space and i have free 50GB of space but i can't use it and it's driving me crazy DX
Nope, it's junk. The bad sectors will only get worse, so get anything valuable off it ASAP.
Unhn :-(
The problem has actually been present for almost 2 years now without getting worse, maybe because i use it lightly, i have a few unimportant files there but nowhere to move them to for now.
(10-12-2014, 11:20 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah true. Although anyone can afford to upgrade it's called getting a job or doing odd jobs for people and saving up. I don't know how it is elsewhere but when kids want something I see them doing stuff like shoveling snow, cutting grass or other yard work, allowance from parents or have parents that'll buy their kids anything.
You didn't seriously just suggest that if people want a better computer they should have their parents buy one for them, did you?
spoiler alert: poor people exist. As do people who can't just go get a job. As do people who have jobs, and still can't afford to buy anything they don't need to survive.
(10-13-2014, 12:45 AM)Zee530 Wrote: [ -> ]Unhn :-(
The problem has actually been present for almost 2 years now without getting worse, maybe because i use it lightly, i have a few unimportant files there but nowhere to move them to for now.
Cloud services may be an option, depending on your internet connection, and the types of files you're looking to store. Between DropBox, Google Drive, and Mega, you could get some breathing room before you can afford new local storage. If you need constant access and have not-so-good internet connection, I guess this isn't going to be a solution.
I guess you could start making space (compressing files, deleting old files, etc). Until you get a new 1TB drive, spend your bits and bytes wisely.
(10-13-2014, 01:19 AM)RachelB Wrote: [ -> ] (10-12-2014, 11:20 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah true. Although anyone can afford to upgrade it's called getting a job or doing odd jobs for people and saving up. I don't know how it is elsewhere but when kids want something I see them doing stuff like shoveling snow, cutting grass or other yard work, allowance from parents or have parents that'll buy their kids anything.
You didn't seriously just suggest that if people want a better computer they should have their parents buy one for them, did you?
spoiler alert: poor people exist. As do people who can't just go get a job. As do people who have jobs, and still can't afford to buy anything they don't need to survive.
No.. I was saying there are parents out there whom spoil their kids and buy them anything which is true, it wasn't a suggestion but I can see how that may have been misinterpreted. Can't get a job? They would have to be getting some kind of income to pay bills, buy food and supplies unless they're living with someone else.
Btw the hardware needed to run Dolphin decently and take advantage of recent improvements would be dirt cheap second hand. Some existing hardware could be salvaged and re-used to cut costs further. They wouldn't achieve Haswell level performance but it would be better than what they currently have and better than running an old build for performance reasons.
(10-13-2014, 01:35 AM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2014, 12:45 AM)Zee530 Wrote: [ -> ]Unhn :-(
The problem has actually been present for almost 2 years now without getting worse, maybe because i use it lightly, i have a few unimportant files there but nowhere to move them to for now.
Cloud services may be an option, depending on your internet connection, and the types of files you're looking to store. Between DropBox, Google Drive, and Mega, you could get some breathing room before you can afford new local storage. If you need constant access and have not-so-good internet connection, I guess this isn't going to be a solution.
I guess you could start making space (compressing files, deleting old files, etc). Until you get a new 1TB drive, spend your bits and bytes wisely.
Cloud is a no go over here, i have an internet connection capable of it but the speed is extremely discouraging, we're talking 200GB. I don't know why but i find it hard to delete files, it's as though i can't let them go for some reason. I did muster up the courage and deleted a lot of stuff several months back but now i'm out of space again and i can't decide what to do. I have an old desktop with what i believe is a dead power supply so i think i'll try to revive it as i've been planning to do for a long time, i can't remember it's drive space but it should at the very least be 100Gb.