Do I have a bad PC Setup for Dolphin?

03-04-2011, 01:33 AM #1

Hi there....
I have two games which won't work fluently (fps issues)

-Fatal Frame 4
-Fragile Dreams

The First game has this audio/video desync which is caused due fps loss....
(It looses sometimes 5 Frames which causes this desync). I tried so many Configs...tested nearly everything...The Problem cannot be solved.

Fragile Dreams is even worse...the Intro of the Game is only at 80% Speed. The Audio is stuttering and the voices are terrible. Ingame i have only 70% Speed. Here I also tried every config. I used thousands of Dolphin releases.
I guess my PC is not optimized for emulating Wii games.
Here is my Setup:

AsRockK10N78FullHD-hSLI (nForce720)
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quadcore with 4x3400MHZ
Nvidia GeForce GTS250 with 1042mb GDDR3
3 gig DDR2 Memory RAM with 266mhz frequency (kinda low?)
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Iam using the x86 Version of Dolphin, cuz the x64 is crashing randomly for me.

**Link_to_the_past** · 03-04-2011, 01:47 AM #2

(03-04-2011, 01:33 AM)Denzel-X Wrote: Hi there....
I have two games which won't work fluently (fps issues)

-Fatal Frame 4
-Fragile Dreams

The First game has this audio/video desync which is caused due fps loss....
(It looses sometimes 5 Frames which causes this desync). I tried so many Configs...tested nearly everything...The Problem cannot be solved.

Fragile Dreams is even worse...the Intro of the Game is only at 80% Speed. The Audio is stuttering and the voices are terrible. Ingame i have only 70% Speed. Here I also tried every config. I used thousands of Dolphin releases.
I guess my PC is not optimized for emulating Wii games.
Here is my Setup:

AsRockK10N78FullHD-hSLI (nForce720)
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quadcore with 4x3400MHZ
Nvidia GeForce GTS250 with 1042mb GDDR3
3 gig DDR2 Memory RAM with 266mhz frequency (kinda low?)
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Iam using the x86 Version of Dolphin, cuz the x64 is crashing randomly for me.

DDR2 at 266mhz? Are you sure about that? Such memories are ancient while your system seems new.

03-04-2011, 02:18 AM #3

inteGReddy · 03-04-2011, 02:56 AM #4

well... you can run the memory in 333mhz mode if your cpu supports it.

**NaturalViolence** · 03-04-2011, 07:39 AM #5

Quote:DDR2 at 266mhz? Are you sure about that? Such memories are ancient while your system seems new.

CPUz reports REAL dram frequency. In DDR (double data rate) ram the effective clock speed is double the real clock speed. So ddr2 533MHz ram will show up as 266 MHz in cpuz.

**Runo** · 03-04-2011, 07:40 AM #6

Still where the hell he got a MoBo with a ddr2 slot that supports that CPU?

03-05-2011, 04:03 AM #7

So the RAM is slowing down my Dolphin Performance?

remedy2 · 03-05-2011, 11:42 AM #8

(03-04-2011, 07:40 AM)Runo Wrote: Still where the hell he got a MoBo with a ddr2 slot that supports that CPU?

There are tons of Mobos that will support DDR2 + this processor. Perhaps you are thinking of DDR1 which you would not be able to find.

To the original poster, your setup isn't too bad for Dolphin. You wont be able to run every game full speed but it should work for many. You could get some faster ram, or as NV said you can speed up the Ram in your bios to 333MHz (I doubt you will see a noticeable difference with this but its worth pushing your components to work the fastest they are made to do).

I'm honestly not too familiar with how much Ram speed effects dolphin performance. I have my doubts that if you doubled your ram speed say to 1066MHz (PC2 8500) you would see that big of an improvement. Others with more knowledge here might correct me. If you are able to upgrade your motherboard, cpu, and ram right now is a good time to do so. Intel's new Sandy Bridge chips will run just about any game Dolphin can play on high settings. You wont have to worry about buying new DDR2 memory just to see it not give you the boost you hoped.