Optimal settings!

Just to give an idea the types of games I'll be running will mainly be like Mario (galaxy/sunshine/part), Zelda (GC & Wii), Luigi's Mansion, and WWE (GC games)

Just wanted to get the optimal settings! I did my best to try and fill out the PC information, but I'm also gonna give you guys some of the places where it gives me options on what to choose

Backend
-Direct 3D9 (deprecated)
-Direct3D11
-Open GL
-Software Renderer

Adapter
-Intel® HD Graphics 4000
-NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

So those seem to be the two settings that relate to things from my PC. Other than that I just need to know what to set things to in Dolphin for optimal performance on my PC based on my settings. Unless default is actually the way to go.


Operating System: Windows 8 x64
Processor/CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz, 2901 Mhz, 2 Core(s
Video Card/GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
Memory/RAM: 8 GB DDR3
Dolphin Revision Currently Using: 4.0.2 x64

Also, if it's any indicator, I just tried to play WWE Day of Reckoning 2 with OpenGL and NVIDIA GeFORCE GT 630M as the two settings above, and when wrestlers were doing their entrance the frame rate dropped to 30 FPS, or 50% of what it should be.



I also seem to be having some weird settings problems. Sometimes when I select OpenGL pluggin, it doesn't let me select the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M, only the Intel 4000. On Direct3D9 I haven't seem to be able to select the NVIDIA card at all! And when I try to start Direct3D11 but it crashes. I'm looking into that issue now.

Update: I went into my NVIDIA control panel and set Dolphin to high performance. It now allows me to set Backend to Direct 3D9 (deprecated) and my Adapter to NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M; however... this is actually making the game run slower. The intro and stuff were running at 100% at first, they only run at 50%.

Update 2: Okay this is really annoying, I can be in Dolphin, open Graphics Configuration, and it will be set to NVIDIA. I'll hit X, open it again, and it magically changes itself to Intel. It's likely randomly changing itself!

Don't know if these help