(04-10-2014, 12:17 PM)kinkinkijkin Wrote: [ -> ]Well, the windows drivers don't have any issues, if you stay single-screen, single-card, don't use GPU Overdrive, and are completely okay with forced settings not being forced.
RadeonPro is completely safe if you make sure that it doesn't do API monitoring in software that doesn't have a profile. Actually, I'd bargain that THAT, right there, be your problem. Go into RadeonPro's configuration and find the thing under "advanced" that says something about disabling the API monitoring in the things not on the stuff list.
You know I was REALLY hoping that was the problem especially after uninstalling it just now and every 'clash' it was having with razer synapse, virtu and SweetFX solved itself but no, not Dolphin, Kart still needs the 2.5x IR and the works to avoid most drops, I'll do more testing, maybe there is something to this. And I'll look into the API thing if I decide to reinstall.
I'm using the 14.3 BETA drivers for my card by the way, could this possibly be the problem?
No, it shouldn't. I use the same drivers on a far inferior card and can still push 2xIR + 8x CSAA in OGL in most of my games.
Are you trying to use any other sort of settings forcer or injector with dolphin? I'd recommend making sure there's nothing other than plain dolphin running dolphin. Unless it's a demanding game and I didn't know, you should have no problems running either Double Dash!!! or Mario Kart Wii.
Just out of plain curiosity (since it's shown itself to be a problem to myself and my peers before), what is your power supply? Some research, along with my own experience, has lead me to the conclusion that having a bad power supply can cause performance issues.
(04-10-2014, 12:51 PM)kinkinkijkin Wrote: [ -> ]No, it shouldn't. I use the same drivers on a far inferior card and can still push 2xIR + 8x CSAA in OGL in most of my games.
Are you trying to use any other sort of settings forcer or injector with dolphin? I'd recommend making sure there's nothing other than plain dolphin running dolphin. Unless it's a demanding game and I didn't know, you should have no problems running either Double Dash!!! or Mario Kart Wii.
Just out of plain curiosity (since it's shown itself to be a problem to myself and my peers before), what is your power supply? Some research, along with my own experience, has lead me to the conclusion that having a bad power supply can cause performance issues.
The games I tried were Kart, WW, Skyward and SMG2 and all suffer from the same, more or less. No Dolphin has nothing attached to it now that RP has been dealt with, ccc has no profiles, hell it doesn't even have keyboard or mouse profiles.. so nothing I can think of. I'll get back to you after the afterburner test.
PSU? Corsair RM750, I have a superior AX750 around here somewhere if that turns out to be the case.
RM750 is more than adequate quality.
With afterburner, if it turns out that dolphin isn't running while your GPU is running 3d clocks, there is a way you can just completely turn off the difference between idle, 2d, and 3d clocks, called "AMD unofficial overclocking", followed by "without powerplay support" in the following menu-thingy. Once those are enabled, you just change the clock rate of either your core or VRAM. Doesn't even have to be an increase. Hell, you can even pull off driver glitches like I did, wherein I used afterburner to change my "stock" clocks to 900/1300 (50/100 above stock), and then I "underclock" the core to stock, and it disables powerplay without needing to play about in the registry. That does, however, require exploiting a beta driver bug, and the execution of the exploit can cause permanent damage to your GPU if not done correctly, so I'm not even going to speak more of it now.
Of course, you don't need to disable PowerPlay if bad clocks aren't the issue.
This is very very weird. Just out of the blue Mario Kart ran at a constant 60 frames with LLE, less speed hacks, 3xIR and no AA, still not good enough for my hardware I think but better than before. Actually this is something I noticed as I've been tweaking and testing all day; expected performance per setting seemingly fluctuates and I really can't explain it.
Anyway I ran an Afterburner test as well as HWinfo64 for the cpu using Mario Kart. The first one used the settings in my sig, everything maxed, played from the menu till 2 Sherbet Land laps.
https://cdn.mediacru.sh/Q_OqoNpBCI5a.png
And for the second test I removed AA, 3xIR, enabled skip EFB, Ignore format changes, EFB to texture, Accuracy: fast. Audio at LLE and the rest of the speedhacks unchecked. This is seemingly my "optimal" setting; If I untick a speedhack, increase IR or ass AA I go below 60fps is many tracks and get occasional lag spikes.
https://cdn.mediacru.sh/jJTRLEwJ4rfm.png
Hopefully that clears things, i'm not too sure what to make of them myself.
Depending on the games, AMD cards run like crap and could bottleneck your cpu. For example, the R9 290x 4GB gave me lower fps in Pokemon Colosseum compared to my GTX 580 3GB. If you can't get full speed in Pokemon Colosseum then it's an AMD issue. I'm getting beyond full speed in that game.
(04-10-2014, 04:40 PM)tuanming Wrote: [ -> ]Depending on the games, AMD cards run like crap and could bottleneck your cpu. For example, the R9 290x 4GB gave me lower fps in Pokemon Colosseum compared to my GTX 580 3GB. If you can't get full speed in Pokemon Colosseum then it's an AMD issue. I'm getting beyond full speed in that game.
And if that's the case would it affect Dolphin in its entirety or individual games on it? As I recall kinkinkijkin said he is getting better performance with his inferior amd.
(04-10-2014, 12:09 PM)rokclimb15 Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think you did necessarily. Mainly because I *hate* CCC and the buggy AMD drivers. AMD cards actually have a slight leg up in performance in recent dev versions. It's just a preference. I haven't owned an AMD card since they were owned by ATI (other than one early IGP that won't really game).
People actually use CCC? It's not needed at all.
(04-11-2014, 12:09 AM)RachelB Wrote: [ -> ]People actually use CCC? It's not needed at all.
Wouldn't know. The last time I used it I got so dizzy I nearly threw up. I went out and bought a GTX 430 and haven't looked back.
(04-11-2014, 12:09 AM)RachelB Wrote: [ -> ] (04-10-2014, 12:09 PM)rokclimb15 Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think you did necessarily. Mainly because I *hate* CCC and the buggy AMD drivers. AMD cards actually have a slight leg up in performance in recent dev versions. It's just a preference. I haven't owned an AMD card since they were owned by ATI (other than one early IGP that won't really game).
People actually use CCC? It's not needed at all.
As sad as this might sound I've been known to withold myself food whilst trying to find the best graphics/performance setting in a game through Radeon Pro, essentially an extension of CCC. It's like a curse you know, if there's a means to improve I don't let it go even if I'd be just as happy playing at 1xIR where everything is made out of stairs.
(04-11-2014, 12:21 AM)rokclimb15 Wrote: [ -> ] (04-11-2014, 12:09 AM)RachelB Wrote: [ -> ]People actually use CCC? It's not needed at all.
Wouldn't know. The last time I used it I got so dizzy I nearly threw up. I went out and bought a GTX 430 and haven't looked back.
It's not as bad as you're making it out to be. In fact some enhancements that wouldn't stick with NCP stuck with CCC.