- Jun 25, 2004
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Just wanted to report that I've found the Dolphin Gamecube/Wii emulator to be the best stability tester for me. At a voltage on which Prime is 48 hours stable and LinX will do 100 loops, Dolphin crashes within minutes. For whatever reason, the parts stressed on my Ivy Bridge chip by Dolphin are the most sensitive to voltage.
My preferred method of testing is to open Wind Waker (since I have a legit copy of it) and just stand around somewhere. It doesn't have to be the focus window, it'll crash even if you have it minimized. Loading Prime in the background doesn't seem to speed up finding errors, but it doesn't slow it down either. I prefer to open Prime anyway as it loads the rest of the cores and gets the temperature up. Uncapping framerate doesn't affect crash-rate either.
EDIT: A link to Dolphin for those of you interested: http://forums.dolphin-emulator.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=6
I recommend DefenderX's builds but Lectrode's and ExtremeDude2's are also compiled via ICC and make use of AVX.
My preferred method of testing is to open Wind Waker (since I have a legit copy of it) and just stand around somewhere. It doesn't have to be the focus window, it'll crash even if you have it minimized. Loading Prime in the background doesn't seem to speed up finding errors, but it doesn't slow it down either. I prefer to open Prime anyway as it loads the rest of the cores and gets the temperature up. Uncapping framerate doesn't affect crash-rate either.
EDIT: A link to Dolphin for those of you interested: http://forums.dolphin-emulator.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=6
I recommend DefenderX's builds but Lectrode's and ExtremeDude2's are also compiled via ICC and make use of AVX.
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