Hey all!
I've been running Xenoblade fine without issue for the last couple days. Like I said in another thread, I run at 98% speed... about 98% of the time. I'll get the occasional drop for a second or two every fifteen minutes; no big deal, and entirely playable.
But tonight, everything went to hell. I'm in the Tempura(?) caves for the second time - so I know I didn't have problems earlier - and performance is absolutely abysmal. I'm dropping to ~70% speed every ten seconds, and the game is basically unplayable.
So, I go to check things out, and I notice Afterburner is reporting 99% GPU usage, which it never really does when I play on Dolphin. That seems very odd; usually my GPU usage is at ~5-25%, and will bump up to ~50% if I enable 4x AA, and will start bumping 99% usage with 9x (lol) AA. So, I double checked, and sure enough, AA is off. So, for the life of me, I can't figure out what's suddenly triggering this intense GPU usage, that's just destroying my performance.
But what's even more odd, is my GPU temps. I'm hitting a constant ~90+% GPU usage, which would typically put my GPU temps in the high 70s/low 80s C, but yet while playing Xenoblade, at 99% usage, I'm only hitting low 50s. Hmm....
So yeah, any ideas what to do? I'm at a loss. Thank you!
Oh yeah, specs:
i7 930 @ 3.4
GTX570 OC'd
12GB RAM
10K RPM HDD
Running "Abe's HLE-fixed Dolphin Version."