Dolphin runs slowly, but not at my house?

[Swashbuckler]

Alright, this is a weird problem. When I'm at my house, dolphin runs almost always at 100% on the two games I play a lot on it, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, and Brawl. It's plugged into the wall and sitting on my desk. Whenever I go to a friends house and try to play it there, it slows down to between 50 and 75% speed. I can't figure out a reason why this would happen, it's always sitting on a desk when I try to play it, it's a brand new laptop. Could it be the fact that it's not plugged in and is running off of battery? Thats the only difference I could think of between the situations.

Any help to this strange situation would be greatly appreciated

[Starscream]

(07-09-2012, 01:46 PM)Swashbuckler Wrote: Alright, this is a weird problem. When I'm at my house, dolphin runs almost always at 100% on the two games I play a lot on it, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, and Brawl. It's plugged into the wall and sitting on my desk. Whenever I go to a friends house and try to play it there, it slows down to between 50 and 75% speed. I can't figure out a reason why this would happen, it's always sitting on a desk when I try to play it, it's a brand new laptop. Could it be the fact that it's not plugged in and is running off of battery? Thats the only difference I could think of between the situations.

Any help to this strange situation would be greatly appreciated

I think it's pretty obvious. When it's not plugged in, it's on power saving mode and doesn't use all resources to extend battery life.

[Zee530]

Yeah, to be exact your problem is most likely a gpu bottleneck, most notebooks can only use their dedicated gpu when plugged in and fall back to the integrated on battery