Dolphin running at 50% speed

[Aerris]

So, I've decided to try GBC emulation (Fire Emblem Path of Radiance to be precise), and while the game runs at 100% during menus, it get really low during gameplay (~50%) and even lower during cinematics (~30%). I'm using the default settings. Now, I'm wondering is my pc strong enough to support GBC emulation, and if it is, what am I doing wrong.

I hope i didn't post this in the wrong forum. Also, I'm not listing specs since I listed 'em during registration, and you guys can see them, right?

EDIT - In case you cant see my specs, they are:

OS Windows XP x86
AMD Phenom™ 9550 quad quore processor 2.21 ghz
ASUS EAH4670 series
2gb ram
Dolphin 4.0

[Helios]

We don't support Dolphin 4.0 anymore.

Upgrade your OS to 64 bit and install 5.0 for support.

[Aerris]

(07-22-2016, 01:02 PM)Helios Wrote: We don't support Dolphin 4.0 anymore.

Upgrade your OS to 64 bit and install 5.0 for support.

Thank you very much for you kind answer sir.

Now, i hope I'm not overstepping my boundaries, but I'd like to ask would I be able to run GC games at full speed if i upgraded to 5.0 and ran 64 bit system?

[Helios]

Probably not. That's a slow and old CPU as much faster as 5.0 is.

Maybe Melee.

[Shonumi]

(07-22-2016, 12:44 PM)Aerris Wrote: So, I've decided to try GBC emulation (Fire Emblem Path of Radiance to be precise)

I had no idea Path of Radiance came out for the Game Boy Color

I know I say this a lot, but TimeSplitters 2 will run on anything, basically. It's fun if you're into FPS games, plenty of modes and stuff to waste your time with. Animal Crossing doesn't take much to run (basically a ported N64 game on the GameCube) and that's a great time waster too.

[themaster123]

Legend of Zelda Windwaker and new super mario bros in my experience wasn't that bad to run. I based this on when I was using a i5 460m with dolphin 4 before I gave my old laptop to my stepfather. That said you probably be better of getting a new computer if you try to run dolphin more as a modern cpu would be much better. Modern intel i3 and pentium based on haswell\skylake or higher would be greater then any current amd cpu for dolphin though. I haven't try 5 on that laptop(no long have it) but I didn't have some level with slowdown with 4 with melee though on that laptop. That said I doubt it would have it with 5.

[Helios]

An i5-450m is significantly faster than their CPU

[Aerris]

(07-22-2016, 04:13 PM)Shonumi Wrote: I had no idea Path of Radiance came out for the Game Boy Color

I know I say this a lot, but TimeSplitters 2 will run on anything, basically. It's fun if you're into FPS games, plenty of modes and stuff to waste your time with. Animal Crossing doesn't take much to run (basically a ported N64 game on the GameCube) and that's a great time waster too.

Ooops, that muscle memory!

Well, yeah, I've been planing to get a new pc for a long time, I guess that time is nigh.

Any special prerequisites for being able to run Wii emulation well, or it's as simple as getting best possible specifications?

[KHg8m3r]

Get a nice Skylake i5 or i7. Or wait a few months for Kaby Lake.

[DJBarry004]

One last thing: Upgrade your OS to any recent version (Windows 8, Windows 10 X64), WinXP X64 is not supported (and was never supported).