Constant micro stutter issue in strange circumstance.

[siejones]

I have created a kind of steam PC with my old laptop specs:

Intel 6440HQ, Nvidia GTX 965m

I realise this is no power house but it's surprisingly capable and should be more than enough to run Dolphin GameCube emulation. It runs Yuzu emulation really well.

I initially was setting this up from my main PC via remote desktop. I installed Dolphin and a few games and ran them to test. They ran surprisingly well and smooth over remote desktop with the odd frame drop as you would expect.

Then I tried to run the same games on the laptop directly but now I get constant stuttering in video and audio. Not intermittent but all the time. No settings were changed. If I remote desktop back in and run them again they are fine.

I was under the impression that remote desktop would only stream and the processing would be done on the laptop. Am I missing something here?

[siejones]

For anyone that is interested I have new info.

This is not actually related to Dolphin. It is an issue with laptops that have a discreet graphics card along side the internal graphics. If I use an external monitor and make it second screen only then there is a weird constant graphics switching happening which causes every process to lag. If I run the external monitor as an extended or duplicate then there are no issues.

In Yuzu this just caused the frame rate to drop but in Dolphin it was a lot more obvious.

May help someone at some point.

[KHg8m3r]

Sounds like a driver issue. Are your running the latest version of both the Intel iGPU drivers and the Nvidia drivers?

[siejones]

Sounds like a driver issue. Are your running the latest version of both the Intel iGPU drivers and the Nvidia drivers?

Hi,

So I was using a external 4k monitor runing at 1080p resolution. I have since found that if I turned off v-sync the problem would go away. Also if I used my old 1080p LG TV instead it didn't happen with v-sync enabled or not. So this must be something to do with scaling combined with v-sync. I don't quite understand it tbh but this might help someone somewhere at some point