I have an 'AMD Radeon HD 7670M' GPU to run dolphin, works great for me, and I don't encounter that much slowdown.
EXCEPT for the paper mario series, the freaking bbox emulation is so slow (that is, going through pipes, plane and sideways mode and building the bridge in TTYD, using the flipside tower elevator in SPM, and even switching characters in SPM), it lags the game from a constant 60 fps to an amusing 4 frames PER SECOND. Maybe my AMD card is kinda old, but it should support all that stuff, I mean the animation works correctly, it just lags like crazy.
My Intel Core i5 1.70 GHz CPU is not responsible for this lag, because it barely reaches 30% during the laggy parts. Unfortunatly I don't know how to check the usage of the GPU, so telling me about that would be much appreciated.
The Dolphin devs implemented a new and "improved" bbox, from what I get it uses the hardware to emulate the bbox instead of the old method, which "should" make the emulation quicker. It does not. Using the old revisions, I don't suffer from that lag during the bbox emulation, even my old Intel HD 4000 does emulate the game in older revisions almost perfectly. I don't want to go back to old revisions every time I want to play a game that uses bbox.
I don't know if I'm the only one suffering from this problem or not, and I can't directly submit it to the issue tracker because it's down and I don't know if they started a new one or now. So I had to submit my problem here.
Here is the idea that I have, it should solve all the problems that I have, and the problems that people with semi-old hardware have: Have an option named: Old Bbox emulation. I know it's messy to edit the whole code (even though from my quick look into the change, it's not that massive, they just removed a class and added few codes in), but it is going to let many people go the newest versions of dolphin.
Do any of you guys have this problem as well? Can any of the developers respond to this suggestion and whither it is possible or not?
EXCEPT for the paper mario series, the freaking bbox emulation is so slow (that is, going through pipes, plane and sideways mode and building the bridge in TTYD, using the flipside tower elevator in SPM, and even switching characters in SPM), it lags the game from a constant 60 fps to an amusing 4 frames PER SECOND. Maybe my AMD card is kinda old, but it should support all that stuff, I mean the animation works correctly, it just lags like crazy.
My Intel Core i5 1.70 GHz CPU is not responsible for this lag, because it barely reaches 30% during the laggy parts. Unfortunatly I don't know how to check the usage of the GPU, so telling me about that would be much appreciated.
The Dolphin devs implemented a new and "improved" bbox, from what I get it uses the hardware to emulate the bbox instead of the old method, which "should" make the emulation quicker. It does not. Using the old revisions, I don't suffer from that lag during the bbox emulation, even my old Intel HD 4000 does emulate the game in older revisions almost perfectly. I don't want to go back to old revisions every time I want to play a game that uses bbox.
I don't know if I'm the only one suffering from this problem or not, and I can't directly submit it to the issue tracker because it's down and I don't know if they started a new one or now. So I had to submit my problem here.
Here is the idea that I have, it should solve all the problems that I have, and the problems that people with semi-old hardware have: Have an option named: Old Bbox emulation. I know it's messy to edit the whole code (even though from my quick look into the change, it's not that massive, they just removed a class and added few codes in), but it is going to let many people go the newest versions of dolphin.
Do any of you guys have this problem as well? Can any of the developers respond to this suggestion and whither it is possible or not?