Now, I am not here to dump on the devs; they clearly do great work, and I appreciate everything anyone has contributed to this project. But I am here to seek help, because I really wanna play through some Metroid (still waiting on that Switch release, am I right folks!?)
Here's the back story: sometime between August 2016 and January 2018 I completed a playthrough of Metroid Prime 2 using Dolphin. I suspect I was using one of the last revisions of v4 or possibly the latest release of v5. In any case, I recall my playthrough was flawless. No major technical issues come to mind. constant 60fps, buttery smooth, other than resolution I think I had other enhancements cranked. I also recall playing other titles such as Sonic Colors with no issues. But since at least January 2018 I have had a love hate relationship with Dolphin. I go through phases of wanting to just sit down and play a retro game, download the latest release, and time after time I am met with the same lackluster results: dropped frames, glitched audio, essentially unplayable. I'd have a better experience dragging my Wii/GameCube out of storage. It pains me to say that because I remember Dolphin being so much better.
So, I can't see it while writing this, but as I just joined the forums I assume the specs of my rig will be visible somewhere. If not:
3570K, stock
16GB DDR3
GTX 970
240GB SSD
This is the same rig I was using during my previous playthroughts, though I have twice as much ram now. I can't remember if I was on Win10x64 yet, as it was at most a year old. If I wasn't, I was running Win7Ultimate.
Current issues:
*Used to play Sonic Colors. Can't even get the title screen to play full speed now.
*Metroid Prime 2 constant stutters and frame dips. Was not the case last time I played through it with Dolphin.
That's pretty much as far as I got before deciding to come here and seek guidance. I did try several versions (current beta, 5.0, 4.0.2) and all responded the same way. I've tried tweaking all the parameters, and making sure they are set to default as well. I have tried fresh installs of Windows to no avail. It's been like this for literally years, and after many attempts to fix the issues I am wondering if my recollection of a criminally smooth experience with Dolphin is the problem.
Let me know if I need to provide any logs etc. for troubleshooting., and thank you!
Here's the back story: sometime between August 2016 and January 2018 I completed a playthrough of Metroid Prime 2 using Dolphin. I suspect I was using one of the last revisions of v4 or possibly the latest release of v5. In any case, I recall my playthrough was flawless. No major technical issues come to mind. constant 60fps, buttery smooth, other than resolution I think I had other enhancements cranked. I also recall playing other titles such as Sonic Colors with no issues. But since at least January 2018 I have had a love hate relationship with Dolphin. I go through phases of wanting to just sit down and play a retro game, download the latest release, and time after time I am met with the same lackluster results: dropped frames, glitched audio, essentially unplayable. I'd have a better experience dragging my Wii/GameCube out of storage. It pains me to say that because I remember Dolphin being so much better.
So, I can't see it while writing this, but as I just joined the forums I assume the specs of my rig will be visible somewhere. If not:
3570K, stock
16GB DDR3
GTX 970
240GB SSD
This is the same rig I was using during my previous playthroughts, though I have twice as much ram now. I can't remember if I was on Win10x64 yet, as it was at most a year old. If I wasn't, I was running Win7Ultimate.
Current issues:
*Used to play Sonic Colors. Can't even get the title screen to play full speed now.
*Metroid Prime 2 constant stutters and frame dips. Was not the case last time I played through it with Dolphin.
That's pretty much as far as I got before deciding to come here and seek guidance. I did try several versions (current beta, 5.0, 4.0.2) and all responded the same way. I've tried tweaking all the parameters, and making sure they are set to default as well. I have tried fresh installs of Windows to no avail. It's been like this for literally years, and after many attempts to fix the issues I am wondering if my recollection of a criminally smooth experience with Dolphin is the problem.
Let me know if I need to provide any logs etc. for troubleshooting., and thank you!