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Set it to a higher number, then. The auto settings can cause screwed up graphics sometimes, as they don't always render in multiples of the Wii's internal resolution, but the numbers will.

(05-04-2014, 11:45 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: [ -> ]Technically, the i7-4900 can't overclock, it's using Turbo Boost.
Your CPU should have no issues running these games, its the best there is for Dolphin in a laptop. Seconding what DJBarry said, post your graphics and config tabs from Dolphin here so we can see what the issue might be.
Make sure windows Power Management is set to High Performance, your computer is plugged into power, and under Nvidia Control Panel you have Dolphin set to use the high-performance card and maximum power (DON"T SET THROUGH DOLPHIN, YOU WILL GET ERRORS)

You can overclock the 4900MQ just fine up to 4.3Ghz on a single core and 4.2Ghz on all cores.
Although it is Turbo boost it is trivial to change settings in XTU so it keeps using the max clock at all times, of course you may be limited to your TDP (for instance Alienware 18 have a 330W PSU, so you can't get over that limit (globally speaking), your CPU may also overheat at high frequencies (like 4.2Ghz on all cores)
You can reasonably get to 4.0Ghz on all cores without even modifying the CPU voltage while still not throttling, at least on the AW18, on the AW17 you might need to change your PSU (it comes with a 240W by default, 220W on lower GPU configurations) to a 330W, the cooling system, although state of the art, in the AW17 is still not as efficient as on the AW18 where people can reach 4.5Ghz using 4930/4940MX CPUs !

I am not even using 4.0Ghz (although I am overclocked, 4Ghz one thread, 3.9Ghz 2 threads) on all cores and I get full speed in Fzero GX (when the game doesn't crash), Mario Kart WII (except in menus), Zelda Twilight Princess (even in the hyrule field with the ZTP hack), MGS TTS and so on. All that is of course while using 2xSSAA and 3x Internal resolution (I could set it higher but I don't see any differences, so what's the point in wasting resources?), oh! and it's all running using LLE rather than HLE.

On previous builds (the ones allowing the DX9 backend, I can even play Fzero GX at constant 60fps using Stereo 3D (3D Vision) !

Depending on your build you should be able to run the most demanding games, in fact I haven't found an ingame situation when I dropped below 60 or 30fps (depending on what the game is locked to) which on a laptop is truly amazing. I haven't tried other demanding games like the last story though.

(I am using an Alienware 18 with an intel 4900MQ CPU, 32GB of RAM (I am actually using this a lot with vmware !) and a GTX880M SLI setup (yes, I know that Dolphin can't make use of the SLI), I also run every dolphin games from a SSD RAID0 array, so that may limit some copy to texture issues)

Oh! and Obviously my GPU is set to performance rather than adaptive in the Nvidia control panel, not that it changes much since I still average at 45-50 fps on Dolphin after switching to the Intel HD 4600 GPU. (yes I actually tried that xD)

Intel XTU does not overclock non -K or -X CPUs. What you're experiencing is the CPU going into a sustained Turbo Boost mode.

(05-21-2014, 02:14 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: [ -> ]Intel XTU does not overclock non -K or -X CPUs. What you're experiencing is the CPU going into a sustained Turbo Boost mode.

It does, 4Ghz is well beyond my stock turbo mode clock speeds already.
The only differences between the 4900MQ and the 4930MX are the 100Mhz higher clock speed, the unlocked max turbo mode multiplier (4900MQ cannot go above x43) and the higher max TDP (57W on the MX cpu, 47W on MQ) the rest is identical. How high the multiplier is allowed to be set depends on your CPU (+600Mhz for the 4900MQ, +400Mhz for the 4800MQ, + 200Mhz for the 4700MQ)

You can even set the cores voltage. So yeah I am experiencing an Overclock and I know what the hell I am doing.

Here, to illustrate how powerful that laptop is, I have attached a couple of pictures.
Those are F-Zero GX and Super Mario Galaxy 2, both running at 60fps with 4 times the Internal Resolution and the maximum AA settings set in the D3D11 wrapper, that's a massive Internal Resolution once you count in the AA (I've got 8GB of GDDR5 (VRAM) so that obviously helps), both are very demanding games and so far they both run at full speed without any FPS drops.

Of course you do have to setup your games properly, for instance I disable the MMU when it's not used by game and so on.

P.S. The games do not look that good in the screenshots because I had to set those in windowed mode so the external resolution dropped, the internal resolution is still huge though (obviously) and I have no problem running these games in fullscreen.