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Help Config Dolphin - epicrean - 05-23-2013
Ok so I am trying to sqeeze the best performance out of Dolphin! I have given up on running Fzero as everything I have tried has failed. The game plays but the FPS drops play 20 during races!!
SO I just want to the set the emulator to the best I can to make all my other games run fast and effiecent!
Thanks!!!
Dolphin Version: 3.5-1372 (stock settings)
Operating System: Windows 7 64
Processor/CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1
Video Card/GPU: Sapphire 7770
Memory/RAM: Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 4 GB
RE: Help Config Dolphin - LordVador - 05-23-2013
(05-23-2013, 01:03 PM)epicrean Wrote: I just want to the set the emulator to the best I can to make all my other games run fast and effiecent!
3570k can run most games full-speed without any special settings. For the most demanding games (such as F-Zero GX) you'll have to overclock
RE: Help Config Dolphin - pauldacheez - 05-23-2013
^This. There are a handful of games that require an overclocked 3570K at 4.2-4.5 GHz, including Super Mario Galaxy (because it requires DSP LLE to not crash/have broken audio) and F-Zero GX (because it requires Sync GPU, which is basically dual-core mode with a ludicrous amount of checks to make it behave like single-core mode while being *slightly* faster). The 3570K overclocks very well as long as you have a decent cooler on it, so there's no need to worry about how hard you're pushing it.
If you don't want to overclock it, you can disable Sync GPU for it (right-click the game > Properties, uncheck "Synchronize GPU Thread"), but be aware that this can cause the game to crash randomly. It seems to have no problem/less problems with the current OpenGL backend, though.