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It seems to depend on how much other work the GPU is doing at the time. Accessing the Z buffer is heavier than color... and under the right conditions can actually freeze the CPU completely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFPG70l4Sfc (apologies for terrible quality). No exceptions, machine checks or anything from the CPU; just completely non-responsive upon trying to read a Z value to see if the sun is exposed (for rendering the bloom effect).
The Prefetch Custom Texture option is a long time coming feature mainly due to the stutters that Dolphin suffers when playing a game, of course you have Ishiiruka build for that but it's a path in the right direction. This is an exciting feature. However, does this option only targets loading custom textures or does it also target stutters when playing a game for the first time without the textures?
Personally I've never really put into much attention on the stutters when I first started playing Metroid Prime on Dolphin, maybe it was just there I don't know.
The stutter you're talking about is due to shader compilation, not texture loading.
(06-01-2015, 10:58 PM)cyrax33 Wrote: [ -> ]However, does this option only targets loading custom textures or does it also target stutters when playing a game for the first time without the textures?
It only targets loading custom textures.
I didn't know about that flaw with the GCI folder (I've never used it). I would have lost a lot of progress in my games, because I almost always use the Ishiiruka builds, where games with custom textures always crash on exit (at least for me)
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Enverex Wrote:It's great that it's now playable in Dolphin, but unfortunately (unless I'm wrong) it won't benefit from higher internal rendering resolution that's possible on an N64 emulator
Nope, raising internal resolution works in all VC titles! I have Pokémon Snap, and I have played it in Dolphin with 3x Native internal resolution and antialiasing.
(06-11-2015, 05:56 PM)MaJoR Wrote: [ -> ]Enverex Wrote:It's great that it's now playable in Dolphin, but unfortunately (unless I'm wrong) it won't benefit from higher internal rendering resolution that's possible on an N64 emulator
Nope, raising internal resolution works in all VC titles! I have Pokémon Snap, and I have played it in Dolphin with 3x Native internal resolution and antialiasing.
Oh snap! (cwatididthre). Well that's good news then, I'm not entirely sure how that works as that makes it sound like the Wii is nativity running the game rather than emulating it if boosting the Wii's internal rendering resolution "just works" on VC titles. Very weird.
(06-11-2015, 06:05 PM)Enverex Wrote: [ -> ] (06-11-2015, 05:56 PM)MaJoR Wrote: [ -> ]Enverex Wrote:It's great that it's now playable in Dolphin, but unfortunately (unless I'm wrong) it won't benefit from higher internal rendering resolution that's possible on an N64 emulator
Nope, raising internal resolution works in all VC titles! I have Pokémon Snap, and I have played it in Dolphin with 3x Native internal resolution and antialiasing.
Oh snap! (cwatididthre). Well that's good news then, I'm not entirely sure how that works as that makes it sound like the Wii is nativity running the game rather than emulating it if boosting the Wii's internal rendering resolution "just works" on VC titles. Very weird.
The Wii does emulate all Virtual Console games, but it uses its GPU to render the 3D graphics of N64 games, so Dolphin can apply enhancements just like with native GC/Wii games. It wouldn't have worked if N64 VC had been using software rendering, but that's not the case.