QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Damn just found out about Dolphin, sadly I only have a 2.4 quad core from like 2 or 3 years ago, so guess I gotta update my computer to get full enjoyment out of it. HD wii games shall wait I guess 
Dolphin - Emulating Wii and Gamecube Games
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Well my PC can't handle the LLE. Virtually unplayable slowdown and freezing. I suppose maybe I could try overclocking the CPU, but I doubt I'll be able to push it far enough to pull it off, and it's probably not worth the effort just to get rid of some occasional audio crackling.
Anyway, changed setting to Gvaz's recommended settings, and performance seems just as good as before (constant 98-100% speed) with even a bit of visual improvement. Very nice.
Audio problems are starting to occur with a bit more frequency now, which is obnoxious. Strangely it's mainly only garbling BGM at this point, and it tends to only happen after a song has been playing for a while. At least it's easily fixed in the field by just changing the time of day.
Anyway, changed setting to Gvaz's recommended settings, and performance seems just as good as before (constant 98-100% speed) with even a bit of visual improvement. Very nice.
Audio problems are starting to occur with a bit more frequency now, which is obnoxious. Strangely it's mainly only garbling BGM at this point, and it tends to only happen after a song has been playing for a while. At least it's easily fixed in the field by just changing the time of day.
Yeah I still get minor issues but it's completely playable.
Sometimes when the game starts doing some particle effects or it's weird poorman's version of Depth of Field (blame the wii for that, it looks ugly on high resolutions) the game slows down to the high 10s in cutscenes but that's ignorable.
Sometimes when the game starts doing some particle effects or it's weird poorman's version of Depth of Field (blame the wii for that, it looks ugly on high resolutions) the game slows down to the high 10s in cutscenes but that's ignorable.
IrishNinja
Member
TheExodu5 said:
hmm. i'm working on OCing my i5-760 to about 3.6ghz, hopefully. how would this rate for doplhin use? between an AMD and sandy bridge, then?
ive had no troubles with the stuff ive thrown at PCSX2 (except maybe Global Defense Force) at stock 2.8, just wondering about what to expect - say, using Xenoblade as one barometer.
also: what's LLE?
Big Papa Husker
Member
Anyone using an XBOX360 controller to play this? How do you have it configured button-wise?
Also, are there any bluetooth adapters that don't require that BlueSoleil application?
Also, are there any bluetooth adapters that don't require that BlueSoleil application?
I'm using the Xbox 360 controller. Works great. I mapped everything basically 1:1 position-wise with the Classic Controller Pro. The only thing is that the A/B and X/Y buttons are reversed between the two controllers (i.e. "a" on the CCP is where the "B" button is on the 360 controller, and vice versa).Big Papa Husker said:
What's a good game to use as benchmark for your setup right now? I mean what's a good game to measure the average strain Wii emulation puts on your system? If there is such a thing as an average I guess.
I tried ripping/playing Mario Galaxy and F-Zero GX around christmas 2010 and was met with some crushing framerates and audio issues, enough to turn me off the idea alltogether. There's been a load of revisions and new configs since then though and I'd love to try something that gives me an idea of whether it's worth fiddling with settings and whatnot on my machine.
I guess specifically I'm asking about games that aren't total performance hogs and at the same time don't necessarily speed along on any old hardware.
I tried ripping/playing Mario Galaxy and F-Zero GX around christmas 2010 and was met with some crushing framerates and audio issues, enough to turn me off the idea alltogether. There's been a load of revisions and new configs since then though and I'd love to try something that gives me an idea of whether it's worth fiddling with settings and whatnot on my machine.
I guess specifically I'm asking about games that aren't total performance hogs and at the same time don't necessarily speed along on any old hardware.
Yaska
Member
the dolphin wiki has a good set of settings for wind waker if you're wondering how the settings should be in latest svns. Also for some settings add the game folder to dolphins gamefolder list to access some properties, tweaks and cheats. The biggest problem I've encountered so far is the garbled heat effect in Dragon Roost Island.Magnus said:
And damn those xenoblade screens look hot. No xenoblade in my local store;no xblade for me for a while
StoppedInTracks
Member
Ydahs said:
I have an i5 2520M and the same graphics cards and the answer is no chance in hell, that GPU cannot play even normal 360 ports.
Best you can play on it is Xbox/ PS2 ports like Splinter Cell 1, Painkiller, F.E.A.R. basically 5-10 year old PC games :|
(N64 and 3DS emus run perfect, though)
captmorgan
Banned
MetatronM said:
I`m probably just stupid and missing a setting, but what do you select to in-able the controller? When I go under the settings I map out the buttons, it recognizes all the button presses but when I launch the game it will only recognize keyboard/mouse commands.
I have controller/game-pad selected from the drop drop down menu.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Ydahs said:
Worst thing is the CPU is super fast, the RAM is super fast but they paired it with such a shit intel GPU. Why not go for some Radeon?
Oh I know, it costs $20 more. But what's $20 next to $800 cost of laptop? Well if you sell 2M of them you have $40M more in the bank
nincompoop
Banned
Fuck, those Xenoblade shots are really making me regret ordering from Zavvi
Diprosalic
Banned
is there a quick save option? xenoblade seems to crash pretty often (all 30-45min)
edit: found it, now i use xpadder to make the "click" from the xbox pad into the quicksave command so i can quicksave easily without using a keyboard. and the other click to load the savegame
edit: found it, now i use xpadder to make the "click" from the xbox pad into the quicksave command so i can quicksave easily without using a keyboard. and the other click to load the savegame
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Diprosalic said:is there a quick save option? xenoblade seems to crash pretty often (all 30-45min)
edit: found it, now i use xpadder to make the "click" from the xbox pad into the quicksave command so i can quicksave easily without using a keyboard. and the other click to load the savegame
What sound mode are you using?
Edit:
From what i've been reading, HLE patched has no sound issues, but crashes.
LLE has sound issues if you don't have very high end processor, but does not crash.
captmorgan
Banned
Theonik said:
I had forgotten to set the wii-remote attachment to classic. Thanks alot for your help
Gvaz said:
It's 99% enough. This is the only time I've had regular skipping, and it's still like only 1 dropped audio frame every 5 seconds.
I could push past 4.6GHz as well...I'm just not super comfortable with the voltage it would take at the moment.
Trying HLE for now...no issues as of yet, surprisingly. Not using the patched Dolphin, as it was crashing with HLE.
VGChampion
Member
So instead of buying another desktop Mac I think I'm going to build a gaming PC to go with an Apple laptop. I'm excited to finally try Dolphin out in a few months.
so i finally got around to trying Xenoblade out on Dolphin ...works amazingly well so far.
i'm only @ the very first town you come across so i haven't played much of it.
anyway, i'm running it @ my monitor's 1920x1080 with 2x internal resolution, 4x anti aliasing, 16x anisotropic filtering. per pixel lighting and force texture filtering are both enabled. using DX11.
game seems to be running full speed 30fps ...i applied that patch to the iso.
using HLE for sound and that seems to work good. sound stuttered a couple times but its few and far between, so its not much of a bother.
setup:
i5 760 @ 3.8ghz
soundblaster x-fi xtreme sound card
2 highly clocked GTX460 1gig cards. SLI disabled at the moment.
8gig 1600mhz ram
i have an xbox 360 pad, but didn't try to set it up for this. currently using the mouse/keyboard and that seems to work pretty well for now.
anyway, my main question is ...is it worth trying to play through this game via the Dolphin emulator, or should i just stick to using my Wii?
i'd hate like hell to drop some serious time into the game and end up not being able to complete the game, or something, because of some fuck up with the emulator.
i'm only @ the very first town you come across so i haven't played much of it.
anyway, i'm running it @ my monitor's 1920x1080 with 2x internal resolution, 4x anti aliasing, 16x anisotropic filtering. per pixel lighting and force texture filtering are both enabled. using DX11.
game seems to be running full speed 30fps ...i applied that patch to the iso.
using HLE for sound and that seems to work good. sound stuttered a couple times but its few and far between, so its not much of a bother.
setup:
i5 760 @ 3.8ghz
soundblaster x-fi xtreme sound card
2 highly clocked GTX460 1gig cards. SLI disabled at the moment.
8gig 1600mhz ram
i have an xbox 360 pad, but didn't try to set it up for this. currently using the mouse/keyboard and that seems to work pretty well for now.
anyway, my main question is ...is it worth trying to play through this game via the Dolphin emulator, or should i just stick to using my Wii?
i'd hate like hell to drop some serious time into the game and end up not being able to complete the game, or something, because of some fuck up with the emulator.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
tiku said:I used your settings and it's running great, thanks
I think it's some sort of bug with the sound emulation, most likely it will be sorted out soon.
Diprosalic
Banned
Zimbardo said:
i'm pretty sure that you can just copy your save to the wii assuming your wii is modded (it has to be where else did you get the game from?) and play it there if suddenly something will stop working on dolphin. [citation needed]