Hi Everyone
I have been trying to play 'Dolphin' 3.5 on my new Alienware M14X (Yeah I know they are normally overpriced, I got a really good deal) but have been getting less than brilliant results so far.
Firstly I am only trying to play backups of my collection of GameCube/Wii games, As my Wii recently died. No illegal downloading here.
My M14x has an i7-3630QM AND 16GB DDR3 RAM. I am using the latest nvidia drivers.
I have so far tried to play Zelda - Wind Waker, Paper Mario & Smash Bros Brawl. All games that I have seen running 60fps+ on lesser laptops on youtube.
I am getting around 30fps if I am lucky (around 50-55% Speed). It is definitely set to use my 650m instead of the on board card, Will only allow me to use Direct3d 9 and OpenGL as when I set it to D3D11 it tells me that it 'Failed to enumerate outputs'. It runs a bit faster using OpenGL but not considerably so.
Does anyone have any experience getting dolphin to run well on a similar spec machine? Is there a specific graphics driver I should be using? With the specs of this machine it should certainly be running faster than it is. I have been using the recommended settings for each game on the dolphin wiki, I have also tried turning the resolution right down but it is still slow as hell.
Any help would be appreciated!
Cheers
I have been trying to play 'Dolphin' 3.5 on my new Alienware M14X (Yeah I know they are normally overpriced, I got a really good deal) but have been getting less than brilliant results so far.
Firstly I am only trying to play backups of my collection of GameCube/Wii games, As my Wii recently died. No illegal downloading here.
My M14x has an i7-3630QM AND 16GB DDR3 RAM. I am using the latest nvidia drivers.
I have so far tried to play Zelda - Wind Waker, Paper Mario & Smash Bros Brawl. All games that I have seen running 60fps+ on lesser laptops on youtube.
I am getting around 30fps if I am lucky (around 50-55% Speed). It is definitely set to use my 650m instead of the on board card, Will only allow me to use Direct3d 9 and OpenGL as when I set it to D3D11 it tells me that it 'Failed to enumerate outputs'. It runs a bit faster using OpenGL but not considerably so.
Does anyone have any experience getting dolphin to run well on a similar spec machine? Is there a specific graphics driver I should be using? With the specs of this machine it should certainly be running faster than it is. I have been using the recommended settings for each game on the dolphin wiki, I have also tried turning the resolution right down but it is still slow as hell.
Any help would be appreciated!
Cheers
