decade old Wii games not running on gaming PC

[Jace9]

i7 4770K (not oc'd)
GTX 1060 GB
16GB DDR3

I can't run the games at more than 10 fps. I've tried Wii sports, super paper mario and new super mario bros. All settings are completely turned down and off.

[DJBarry004]

Delete the Dolphin Emulator folder (after backing up your saves and maybe control bindings), then reopen Dolphin. Try running a game. Is it still slowing down that much?

[mstreurman]

(05-31-2019, 11:02 AM)Jace9 Wrote: i7 4770K (not oc'd)
GTX 1060 GB
16GB DDR3

I can't run the games at more than 10 fps. I've tried Wii sports, super paper mario and new super mario bros. All settings are completely turned down and off.

First of all: That PC is not considered a "gaming-pc" by todays standards: The CPU is 5 years old and the card is merely a mid-end card, but it should be running games at good framerates nonetheless.

So step 1:
Make sure to use Windows 10 or Linux and make sure the OS is completely up to date.
Step 2:
Download the latest GPU driver from the nvidia site.
step 3:
Download the latest Dolphin development version from this website: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/
Step 4:
Extract the downloaded Dolphin to a NEW and EMPTY folder
Step 5:
Create an empty portable.txt in the same folder as where the new Dolphin.exe is
Step 6:
Set up Dolphin with the following settings: Asynchronous (ubershader) and Compile shaders at startup. Back-end: DirectX12. Set up your games folder and Change your button layout if needed. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE BUT THIS
Step 7:
Go to the windows power settings and make sure that it is set up to High performance mode
Step 8:
In the Nvidia control panel go to manage 3D settings and change the Power Management mode to "Prefer maximum performance"
Step 9:
Restart your computer
Step 10:
Close all applications possible in your system tray
Step 11:
Try to play your games on Dolphin again.

Step 12:
Report back if this didn't help but please also report back if it did: it is nice to know if the issue has been solved.

[Admentus]

(06-01-2019, 02:31 AM)mstreurman Wrote: First of all: That PC is not considered a "gaming-pc" by todays standards: The CPU is 5 years old and the card is merely a mid-end card, but it should be running games at good framerates nonetheless.

There is definitely not anything wrong with the GPU. A GTX 1060 does the job more than great for Dolphin. I had a GTX 960 for a while some years ago and managed to run all games maxed on 1080p, except for Anti-Aliasing, even for native PC games. Sure, it is mid-tier. But the term mid-tier is overrated. You can easily increase your settings with some careful planning and maintenance. But yeah... That's the downside of PC gaming... A lot of tweaking, hours of them at times when all combined. At least the GTX 1060 is still fairly new. Could be much worse.

The CPU? Well... It is a bit dated by today's standards... But for Dolphin, it should be able to keep up, even running all your titles maxed. Perhaps the CPU Clock Override should be avoided, and some other enhancements, but you won't really need those anyway.

Dolphin is certainly a lot faster than it used to be years ago. Which only works in favor for you CPU and GPU.

(05-31-2019, 11:02 AM)Jace9 Wrote: i7 4770K (not oc'd)
GTX 1060 GB
16GB DDR3

I can't run the games at more than 10 fps. I've tried Wii sports, super paper mario and new super mario bros. All settings are completely turned down and off.

Yeah, the issue must definitely be somewhere in your settings. Try going through the steps mstreurman laid out. Otherwise check if your PC is not having any severe performance issues. You can try the Vulkan backend as well, it works as well as DirectX 12. That's just a matter of checking it for yourself. Different systems, different results.

If you are using a laptop, make sure you high the Windows Power Settings correctly set. Normally, this wouldn't be an issue for Destop PC's.

Once you getting your games running at proper speeds again, you can try and fiddle with some of the other settings, such as the Internal Resolution, Backend Multi-threading, GPU Texture Decoding and well... Stuff like that. But leave them untouched for the time being until you are sure you can run games at the intended framerates using Dolphin's default settings, so you at least can be sure that isn't to blame.