Can I reduce FPS or enable frameskipping?

[Macaulyn]

I could find no option to do that, I'm pretty sure I got the most recent version. Where are the frame options? Is it available in another version?

[MayImilae]

Due to what Dolphin is emulating, Frameskipping did nothing to improve performance in Dolphin when it worked at all and introduced all manner of bugs and problems. So we removed it long ago.

[Macaulyn]

Due to what Dolphin is emulating, Frameskipping did nothing to improve performance in Dolphin when it worked at all and introduced all manner of bugs and problems. So we removed it long ago.

Oh... its just that I'm having problems with Wii games that are similar to problems in games from other consoles that are usually fixed by adjusting frames in their emulators. Mortal Kombat Armageddon in particular, seems to be working fine until anything 3D starts showing up on screen, then it goes down to 80% or even 70% speed, with the sound cracking. Is there any way to improve the performance?

[MayImilae]

Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.5GHz

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710

YIKES.

...Run Dolphin on your smartphone? Basically any smartphone made within the past few years (that supports Dolphin) will run circles around a GT710. And they'd certainly out perform that 14 year old low-end CPU. But excluding that option, uummm, there's not a lot you can do with that hardware. Your GPU is incredibly weak but with that 14 year old low end CPU you're probably still CPU bound. Honestly, your computer is just really weak and lots of games are going to be out of reach for you. I highly recommend a hardware upgrade. If you are on a tight budget, look into used hardware. A used 1060 or something plus a used haswell core i3 would be -dozens if not hundreds of times- more powerful than your current system, and the pair could be had for as little as 100USD. Of course that will depend on what country you are in...

But if you really want to try frameskipping.... Well, we removed it in 5.0-1033, but it was broken for years before that. If you want to try it, it was probably still working in 4.0.2. Though "working" doesn't mean "it will make your games faster." Your CPU is just so weak. Plus you'll be dealing with a much slower version of Dolphin and your performance will probably be worse, not better, not to mention how buggy 4.0.2 is compared to modern Dolphin. You can try it if you want to though.

[Macaulyn]

I'll see what I can do. Thanks for the tips.

[Craftyawesome]

I'm not sure it ever worked properly in all cases, or if it did it was ages ago. In an issue years ago I said it had flickering with virtual xfb on every version I tested including 4.0.7409 and 3.5. And it definitely behaved strangely with odd frameskips on 30fps games.

I think it technically worked with disable xfb? You would have to be GPU limited to actually benefit. And what I remember from when I used a i3-3110m/intel hd 4000 (stronger CPU, weaker GPU) it would only rarely help. The only game I remember actually using frameskip to get fullspeed on was NSMBWii on OGL. D3D11 was fullspeed without frameskip but showed a driver bug. Even then, I think for most games I was mostly CPU limited.

[KHg8m3r]

You may have some luck of getting more performance by down-clockin the emulated GC CPU. Note this can and will introduce problems/crashes/issues in emulation depending on the game and how low of a value you set.

If you go to Settings > Advanced > Clock Override > and "Enable Emulated CPU Clock Override" and then turn the slider to a value less than 100%, you may get some more performance if the game didn't push the GC CPU/GPU to the limits. Go easy and decrease it in small steps and see if the game stays stable.

Your best best is still getting newer hardware if you can, even if that hardware is used and from a newer generation of processor

[themaster123]

Since it wasn't mention yet, He could try to overclock the Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 to something like 3.0+. That might help a little bit assuming the motherboard has the options and his cooling is decent for it. Since it doesn't cost anything extra try assuming he careful not to just jump the voltage to much and damage his cpu.