Hello everybody!
Before everything else: i struggled for about 2 minutes between "support" and "general discussion"-in the end i chose the latter to open this thread, wich will surely be in the wrong section ^_^
Anyway...my question is fairly trivial: i recently upgraded my old core2 laptop to a brand new HP pavillion dv6 with a core i7 Q720 processor, 4 GB of RAM and an ATI mobility radeon 5650 with 1GB video memory.
Now, here is the point: i do see some improvements on the overall game speed (namely-zelda WW passed from 60 to 90%), but i am still struggling with some games. For example, Mario Kart Double Dash refuses to play at 100% speed-it reaches 90% but also tends to drop down to 65-75% when there is a lot of stuff on screen.
Now, i am not a programmer nor a hardware expert-i bought this laptop mainly to work (3d stuff and graphics), but i thought that Dolphin would be the icing on the cake. Core i7 was supposed to be the cream of the crop, yet some games (like the aforementioned Mario Kart DD) cannot yet reach 100%.
What am i missing here? Is there any magical setting i have forgotten to apply, or are we still far from 100% speed on some games? Or, even worse, core i7 was not the best laptop processor around, and i have been deceived by the evil PC shop salesman?
Thanks in advance,
Fede
Before everything else: i struggled for about 2 minutes between "support" and "general discussion"-in the end i chose the latter to open this thread, wich will surely be in the wrong section ^_^
Anyway...my question is fairly trivial: i recently upgraded my old core2 laptop to a brand new HP pavillion dv6 with a core i7 Q720 processor, 4 GB of RAM and an ATI mobility radeon 5650 with 1GB video memory.
Now, here is the point: i do see some improvements on the overall game speed (namely-zelda WW passed from 60 to 90%), but i am still struggling with some games. For example, Mario Kart Double Dash refuses to play at 100% speed-it reaches 90% but also tends to drop down to 65-75% when there is a lot of stuff on screen.
Now, i am not a programmer nor a hardware expert-i bought this laptop mainly to work (3d stuff and graphics), but i thought that Dolphin would be the icing on the cake. Core i7 was supposed to be the cream of the crop, yet some games (like the aforementioned Mario Kart DD) cannot yet reach 100%.
What am i missing here? Is there any magical setting i have forgotten to apply, or are we still far from 100% speed on some games? Or, even worse, core i7 was not the best laptop processor around, and i have been deceived by the evil PC shop salesman?

Thanks in advance,
Fede