Tekken Dark Resurrection

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(05-29-2013 11:19 PM)The Phoenix Wrote:  This emulators top speed is not governed by the CPU, but the Graphics card that is used in your system, it all depends on how powerful that is.
As was said already, this emulator is coded to use only 1 core anyway, so even if you had a quad-core CPU, it would make no difference, well not yet, until its implemented that is.

Depends, what you say might be more relevant for mobile devices. Most PSP games on PPSSPP don't push the CPU quite as hard as Tekken 6 on the PC. Which I believe is due to an optimization problem in the emulator. Alongside the two God of War games.

Which is why I mentioned (for me at least) it is the exception amongst the many, many games I've tested which do not even cause the CPU to break a sweat.

How do I know it's CPU limited? Just running the game with the task manager and GPUz on two separate windows and watching the utilizations are enough to verify it.

T6 swallows up an entire CPU core at 100% utlization, while my GPU is hardly even working (as is evidenced by the low GPU usage in GPUz). To put it in perspective, reducing or increasing the rendering resolution (GPU dependant) does nothing, switching on/off 2xSSAA (GPU killer) also does nothing to improve the performance.

All symptoms of a CPU limited situation for Tekken 6.

I can only speak of my observations for my own windows laptop of course. YMMV.