Am I supposed to have problems running SSB Melee?

[FljegmicH]

Hello, you must be sick of these threads but i am not a tech savvy person and i just want to know if I'm doing something wrong, or missing something with trying to emulate SSB Melee. It runs extremely slow, floating somewhere around 60-80% speed.

Operating System: Windows 7 x64
Processor/CPU: AMD Phenom X3 8650
Video Card/GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650
Memory/RAM: DDR2 4GB
Dolphin Revision Currently Using: 4.0-5647 x64

The settings I'm using are from the Dolphin wiki.
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Performance_Guide

Thank you.

[shawking]

Your CPU is probably the culprit. The Phenom X3 has pretty bad single threaded performance relative to today's standards. Upgrade that and it should improve. Melee isn't a very intense game and it's properly optimized using the newest revision.

[FljegmicH]

That's gonna have to wait a couple of months
Thank you.

Edit: In my laptop I have a Intel® Core™ i5-2450M, will that do the trick?

[Fiora]

I'd think even a Phenom would be fast enough; Melee can run 4x speed or more on newer CPUs. What are your settings?

[FljegmicH]

Settings are:

Dual core speed up enabled
Idle skipping enabled
framelimit at 60
JIT Recompiler enabled

DSP HLE emulation
Audio Bakcend: XAudio2

Grpahics Backend: Direct3D9(deprecated)
Adapter:NVIDIA GeForce GTX650
Resolution: Auto
Ratio:Auto
Internal Resolution: 640x528
AA:none
AF:1x
Scaled EFB Copy enabled

Skip EFB Acces form CPU enabled
Ignore format changes enabled
External frame buffer disabled
Fast Depth calculation enabled

[AnyOldName3]

If you've got D3D9 as an option, you're using an old, slow build. Upgrade to the latest dev from here https://dolphin-emu.org/download/ for free extra speed.

[FljegmicH]

It's mostly at 100% now, thank you.