9800GT don't run at full speed

[uncle troy]

Hey guys, please look at the images.

Skyward Sword in Dolphin 3.5 : http://prntscr.com/kh8wfr

Mario Kart Wii in Dolphin 5.0 : http://prntscr.com/kh8y1s

Super Mario Galaxy in Dolphin 5.0 : http://prntscr.com/kh9242

As you guys can see in the images, the emulation is not 100% and my video card obviously can do better than that, but it don't do more than 20% of the capacity and I don't know why. I would be very grateful if anyone can tell me what's going on.


PS: this occurs only with Wii games

[MayImilae]

Do not post a "bump" ten minutes after posting! This is a forum, please be patient, it can take a couple of days for people to see it and respond.

[JonnyH]

I can't actually see any images in your posts, so I'm guessing.

I wouldn't expect too much with a core2 and a tesla series GPU. They're positively ancient now - dolphin is pretty demanding on the CPU, and a core2 will struggle, and the GPU simply doesn't support all the features that dolphin tries to use now - so it'll either have to fallback to a slow path, or even cause mis-rendering.

But in this case I suspect it's cpu bound anyway.

[TKSilver]

The problem is not the 9800gt (well it might end up being a problem too, but not yet)

The issue is your core 2 quad Q8400 which is not up to the task of keeping up with the emulation. Your GPU is only using some of it's performance because it is not getting enough instructions translated in time to be able to use any more.