(12-07-2013, 05:14 AM)Shonumi Wrote: You should be getting fullspeed even at stock. I have the GPU but an i5-2500K, but both games run pretty much perfectly. Zelda TP + LLE audio + Hyrule Field later on in the game can be quite demanding; either use HLE audio or OC your CPU if possible. If you do use LLE audio, do not put it in a separate thread; it will freeze Dolphin sometimes if you do. Additionally, OpenGL is much faster than D3D9 now; use it an enable the Vertex Streaming Hack (Graphics -> Hacks).

Fwiw, your specs are plenty powerful for these two games. But how is a real Zelda marathon without Four Swords Adventures? :p

(12-07-2013, 05:58 AM)finalfantasy6464 Wrote:

(12-07-2013, 05:14 AM)Shonumi Wrote: You should be getting fullspeed even at stock. I have the GPU but an i5-2500K, but both games run pretty much perfectly. Zelda TP + LLE audio + Hyrule Field later on in the game can be quite demanding; either use HLE audio or OC your CPU if possible. If you do use LLE audio, do not put it in a separate thread; it will freeze Dolphin sometimes if you do. Additionally, OpenGL is much faster than D3D9 now; use it an enable the Vertex Streaming Hack (Graphics -> Hacks).

Fwiw, your specs are plenty powerful for these two games. But how is a real Zelda marathon without Four Swords Adventures? :p

Thanks so much! Enabling that one thing makes it run perfectly! <3 I love you! :3

(12-08-2013, 10:09 AM)Shonumi Wrote: You never said if you switched from LLE audio to HLE audio (try it). If you're CPU bound rather than GPU bound (our GPUs can easily handle this game at 3x IR), most slowdowns will go away with the right amount of overclocking.

Btw, where are you getting the slowdowns? I'm actually still in the process of compiling data about how this game runs at various clocks (2.5GHz to 3.3GHz) on an i5-2500K on 4.0, so maybe the data will be useful to you.

(12-09-2013, 02:46 AM)Shonumi Wrote: You've got a lot to learn about emulators Fortunately you're asking the right person.

CPU bound means the CPU is the limiting factor of your performance, aka a bottleneck. GPU bound means the same: the GPU is the bottleneck for the system. In Dolphin, the GPU is responsible for IR and AA (Internal Resolution and Anti-Aliasing respectively). If you have a CPU bottleneck, that means your GPU is sufficient to handle whatever IR and AA you have set, but the CPU is slowing down the rest of Dolphin's emulation. When you only have a CPU bottleneck, turning down the IR and AA will have no effect of speed, since neither are the cause of the slowdowns. A GPU bottleneck means that your IR and AA are too high for your GPU to handle without slowing down Dolphin's emulation. Unlike modern PC games (which chiefly rely on the GPU generally for the bulk of their performance) Dolphin is generally very reliant on the CPU for the bulk of its performance.

Dolphin is largely a dual-core application, that is to say it dedicates two main threads to do the majority of its processing. You can use a third thread with LLE audio and DSPLLE on a separate thread (but again, it may freeze Wind Waker and Twilight Princess), so at most it will use three cores. The difference between an i5 and an i7 (same microarchitecture e.g Sandy Bridge and at the same clock) is going to be extremely negligible, if noticeable at all. Dolphin also doesn't account for hyper-threading. So in short, our systems are nearly identical in terms of playing Dolphin. We should be getting similar results at any rate; any data I compile will be directly applicable to your situation.

Anyway, have you tried OpenGL + Vertex Streaming hack yet? Even on stock, you shouldn't be getting issues with speed though, at least not in Ordon village. Additionally, are you using the Wii or GC version?