(03-16-2010, 07:11 PM)Starscream Wrote: [ -> ]If I give you directions on how to get to the store near my house, but I make you take some extra streets instead of telling you the easiest way to get there because I'm not really sure what the fastest way is, that is going to slow you down and make you waste a lot of extra time and energy.
It seems like, from that example, that you mean unoptimised Dolphin code - similar to the Hyrule field thread elsewhere in this forum. There are parts of Dolphin that could be made faster. Optimising the code will likely affect more than one game - increasing the speed in both ZWW and Tetris.
Emulator code is different to code in a game.
As Dolphin contains little code that is game specific, you'd have to keep in mind that the emulator does not contain many lines that say, "If the game is Tetris, then count to 1000 before showing the next frame, but if the game is ZWW, then count to 10 before showing the next frame." If the emulator is required to count to a number before showing a frame, it'd be the same number for either game.
The type of emulator code that would account for the different speeds between games would be more like the game asking Dolphin to, "calculate the distance from where Link is standing to the nearest tree to 7 decimal places." When playing Tetris, the game might ask Dolphin to, "count the distance from the block to the bottom of the screen using 14 decimal places." In this case, ZWW would run faster because the game is recruiting less hardware features to run its game code.
Hope that was clear.
Thanks for taking the time to explain that to me. It seems that I wasn't fully understanding what was going on with the emulator and the games being run by it.
I was trying to apply some sort of logic to the situation, but with this platform (PC) emulating an entire other platform where the rules are so much different, it's hard to understand it.
i did make this thread because i want to play all wii games full speed on my computer, so if i can run the slowest game of dolphin full speed, all the other games will run full speed too, my specs are:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHZ
2 GB DDR2 800 mhz kingstone
Nvidia Geforce 9600 GSO
Windows 7 32 BIT
i know is slow, but in 1 month i will buy one Watercooling system, because i want to overclock to 3.5 GHZ, i dont know if this is sufficent to run dolphin full speed = 55-60 constant fps. (in mario galaxy for example)
if someone have this processor please tell me how much i have to overclock to get full speed, or your experience, thanks.
(03-17-2010, 02:12 PM)userpasswordpassport Wrote: [ -> ]i know is slow, but in 1 month i will buy one Watercooling system, because i want to overclock to 3.5 GHZ, i dont know if this is sufficent to run dolphin full speed = 55-60 constant fps. (in mario galaxy for example)
if someone have this processor please tell me how much i have to overclock to get full speed, or your experience, thanks.
woah woah. Slow down there, Mr. Happy! First off, your current rig is by no means slow. You and I have very similar specs, and I'm able to run most GC/Wii games at full speed. Secondly, you really ought to consider the other bottlenecks in your system before trying to boost your CPU speed. right now you only have 2GB RAM running at the standard 800 MHz. No matter how fast your CPU is running it's not going to make much of a difference if it has to stop and wait for the RAM to catch up.
If I were you, i'd pass on the liquid cooling for the time being, and instead use the money to buy another 2GB of RAM. But if you're really itching to overclock your system, you could spring for a higher-end 4GB RAM kit. something with a default FSB speed of 1066 MHz and a 4-4-4-12 timing would be a great place to start. Heck, you could even get two 4 GB kits if you have the dough. If you do upgrade your RAM, make sure to upgrade to the x64 version of windows.
Quote:woah woah. Slow down there, Mr. Happy! First off, your current rig is by no means slow. You and I have very similar specs, and I'm able to run most GC/Wii games at full speed. Secondly, you really ought to consider the other bottlenecks in your system before trying to boost your CPU speed. right now you only have 2GB RAM running at the standard 800 MHz. No matter how fast your CPU is running it's not going to make much of a difference if it has to stop and wait for the RAM to catch up.
If I were you, i'd pass on the liquid cooling for the time being, and instead use the money to buy another 2GB of RAM. But if you're really itching to overclock your system, you could spring for a higher-end 4GB RAM kit. something with a default FSB speed of 1066 MHz and a 4-4-4-12 timing would be a great place to start. Heck, you could even get two 4 GB kits if you have the dough. If you do upgrade your RAM, make sure to upgrade to the x64 version of windows.
yes, after buy the watercooling system i will buy 2 more gb ram, thanks for the RAM thing, my motherboard cannot support 1066 MHZ RAM, so i will overclock that too, can i overclock the timing? if you really know about that please tell me how much i overclock the RAM and CPU to make something equivalent, do i overclock the CPU to 1333 FSB and RAM to 1333 mhz? is that equivalent? thanks.
Try Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. I was getting 8% speed (or 5 FPS) in a lot of places.