Alright, I'm new to Dolphin, and these forums. First, I searched and searched for my issue, and the only thread close to my issue was written back in 2009 and had NO responses (whats up with that one?), so I would like to try my hand and figuring this annoying problem out.
My specs:
GPU: GeForce 9800 GT (nVidia)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ 3.0 GHz
OS: Vista Home sp 1 32 bit
Dolphin Version: 3.0-766(dirty)
I have to say this emulator has been rather psychotic. It went from playing the game perfectly (except the replaying video bit in subspace emissary that kept me from proceeding): the movie was flawless, the title was flawless, the fighting was flawless and the menus were flawless.
I don't really know WHAT happened, but I decided to get some AR codes to unlock all stages and characters that way I could just play the game without subspace emissary (again, which wouldn't work). Of course the codes wouldn't work, so I said screw it and went searching for a save state with everything. I turned dolphin off and back on after finding a data file I got with 100% everything and I put it in the data folder, long story short, the game then began to barely play at 30 FPS. I figured I had screwed up my emulator, deleted it and re-downloaded/installed it, and I STILL can't get the game to run like it did the last time. I've been doing this for a couple hours now, I've done the performance booster on the wiki (which actually made it worse), and still nothing. I can't even get the FPS to hit 60 without setting the limiter all the way to 120. And even then, it doesn't stay at 120. It actually drops down to 60 then 30 then 60 then 76 then 24 etc. The FPS is absolutely broken now. I can play it with the FPS set that high and limited, but the video constantly flickers and it still slows down when I play. If I unclick the "limit fps" option though, the flickering stops and aside from the occasional stutter, it runs butter smooth and fast. But when I press start to get to the game select menu, it always freezes the rom AND dolphin, forcing me to ctrl alt del my way to freedom. The farthest I've gotten with this is to that menu on limited but it freezes at subspace emissary. So anyone know what gives? Does my system suck THAT bad? It runs games like skyrim and battlefield 5 flawlessly...it really makes me mad because if I set the FPS to 60 (I have the NA version), the stupid emulator never EVER extends beyond 18 fps.
My specs:
GPU: GeForce 9800 GT (nVidia)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ 3.0 GHz
OS: Vista Home sp 1 32 bit
Dolphin Version: 3.0-766(dirty)
I have to say this emulator has been rather psychotic. It went from playing the game perfectly (except the replaying video bit in subspace emissary that kept me from proceeding): the movie was flawless, the title was flawless, the fighting was flawless and the menus were flawless.
I don't really know WHAT happened, but I decided to get some AR codes to unlock all stages and characters that way I could just play the game without subspace emissary (again, which wouldn't work). Of course the codes wouldn't work, so I said screw it and went searching for a save state with everything. I turned dolphin off and back on after finding a data file I got with 100% everything and I put it in the data folder, long story short, the game then began to barely play at 30 FPS. I figured I had screwed up my emulator, deleted it and re-downloaded/installed it, and I STILL can't get the game to run like it did the last time. I've been doing this for a couple hours now, I've done the performance booster on the wiki (which actually made it worse), and still nothing. I can't even get the FPS to hit 60 without setting the limiter all the way to 120. And even then, it doesn't stay at 120. It actually drops down to 60 then 30 then 60 then 76 then 24 etc. The FPS is absolutely broken now. I can play it with the FPS set that high and limited, but the video constantly flickers and it still slows down when I play. If I unclick the "limit fps" option though, the flickering stops and aside from the occasional stutter, it runs butter smooth and fast. But when I press start to get to the game select menu, it always freezes the rom AND dolphin, forcing me to ctrl alt del my way to freedom. The farthest I've gotten with this is to that menu on limited but it freezes at subspace emissary. So anyone know what gives? Does my system suck THAT bad? It runs games like skyrim and battlefield 5 flawlessly...it really makes me mad because if I set the FPS to 60 (I have the NA version), the stupid emulator never EVER extends beyond 18 fps.