Overclocking the EE (discussion) (testers wanted)

[ssakash]

I personally don't notice difference in most games. though, inuyasha: Feudal combat and ben 10: Protector of the earth are little smoother internally. The other games like BT3 and vilgax attacks produces some small bugs.
Tested on: 4X native , mtvu enabled, 50% OC.
Though, keep up the good work in the job, some games run really smooth.

[Saiki]

33% is about the best to test at, not 50% And I noticed improvements in a majority of the games I tested. (granted I only have a small selection)

[ssakash]

Yeah, having it at 33% really makes it a lot smoother and there are not much graphical glitches compared to having it at 50%. I tested about 20 games and, only 3 of them had some bugs while playing.

[JMC47]

This is definitely a really cool feature, especially for those with powerful computers. In Driv3r in Hardware Mode (since I can't get close to full speed in Software) it seems to run a bit smoother.

Excellent job; I always wondered if this would be possible in PCSX2 since the underclocking existed!

[rama]

Many games I tried benefit in some form or another.
Sometimes the difference is subtle, like faster level loading due to the EE decompressing assets stuff much faster.

We will include this definitely. The only question left where to put it and how it'll look

[K.F]

like faster level loading due to the EE decompressing assets stuff much faster.

We will include this definitely. The only question left where to put it and how it'll look

Ok, now I'm officially interested, I hate loading

Since you people are worried about bigginners misusing the feature, why instead of using a slider, we use a number box. Almost no one will think about putting a negative number in there, and only people who know about the feature will know to do that without having to mess with .ini files. This is especially useful since you are considering a continuous slider instead of step one.

[ssakash]

I think its better to make an another slider named EE overclock with a note that, "increasing the slider may smoothen the game but, will slow down weaker cpu's".

[Akio]

Could anyone please post the current UI? Thank you.

[Serial Hacker]

1 and 2 level 1 and level 2 of default speed hack

3 is normal

4 is 33%

[jlwmanagement]

Did some testing on a few games and here are my findings:

Your hardware:
In my signature

Any non default settings you used
DX11 > 3x IR > MVu Hack > MTVU Hack

Whether you used 33% or 50% OC or both
33% for all tests

All games tested are NTSC

The name of the game(s)
Dragon Quest VIII
Whether it works as normal or breaks
No notable issues
Whether there is any subjective improvement in internal FPS
There did not seem to be any smoother gameplay

The name of the game(s)
Legend of Legaia 2
Whether it works as normal or breaks
No notable issues
Whether there is any subjective improvement in internal FPS
There did not seem to be any smoother gameplay

The name of the game(s)
Final Fantasy X
Whether it works as normal or breaks
No notable issues
Whether there is any subjective improvement in internal FPS
There was a small improvement in smoothness in some areas like Mi'hen Highroad and Thunder Plains : 5 FPS

The name of the game(s)
Lord of the Rings The Third Age
Whether it works as normal or breaks
No notable issues
Whether there is any subjective improvement in internal FPS
There was a small improvement in smoothness in most areas between 10 and 15 FPS (this was more noticeable during cutscenes)