Well as the title says, my Dolphin 3.0 onwards used to run games like Sonic Colours, Smash Bros, No More Heroes 2, Xenoblade & many other titles at a 3x native resolution with some AA & AF settings perfectly. Games would run fine on 30/60fps with no problems(might have been minor drops in FPS but they weren't noticeable).... but since my computer crapped out and wiped the entire harddrive i haven't been able to get Dolphin to run the same for like 7 months now (had to completely restore the computer, drivers, os all that installed from scratch), i actually gave up because I had no idea why it wouldn't run them games like it used to. Really was doing my head in so i thought i'd ask for help, right now i'm not using anything specific, just some of the latest dolphin builds and have been fiddling with the settings but nothing seems to run like it used to.
I have installed all the drivers that came with my PC when i ordered so i doubt its got something to do with drivers.
The games i've been testing since my PC lost all its memory are No More Heroes 2 & One Piece Unlimited Cruise 2, whats strange is the FPS seems to be the same through 1x-4x native, this could be the issue as i think i read somewhere that an overclock is needed to fix this. I find it bizarre because when my custom PC was delivered i don't remember doing anything with the overclock settings, Dolphin just seemed to run games fine with no major slowdowns... now all i get is major slowdowns as i'm playing the game. Even at 1x native it just seems to slowdown when running through levels, it never used to do this before my PC crapped out .
My specs are...
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD5
Ram: 16GB DDR3 1333mhz
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB
I don't really remember what builds i was using before, just the latest build releases really. Before when them games would run fine i don't remember ticking specific options so i doubt the problem is in the Dolphin settings, perhaps i just need to overclock something. I tried overclocking my graphics card but my computer just seems to crash every time i boot a game while overclocked.
Right now i'm using the latest builds and have just been cycling through D3D9, D3D11 & OpenGL with different settings applied but nothing seems to run as good as it used to. Would be grateful if someone could help me out, been troubling me for some time now.
Thanks
I have installed all the drivers that came with my PC when i ordered so i doubt its got something to do with drivers.
The games i've been testing since my PC lost all its memory are No More Heroes 2 & One Piece Unlimited Cruise 2, whats strange is the FPS seems to be the same through 1x-4x native, this could be the issue as i think i read somewhere that an overclock is needed to fix this. I find it bizarre because when my custom PC was delivered i don't remember doing anything with the overclock settings, Dolphin just seemed to run games fine with no major slowdowns... now all i get is major slowdowns as i'm playing the game. Even at 1x native it just seems to slowdown when running through levels, it never used to do this before my PC crapped out .
My specs are...
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD5
Ram: 16GB DDR3 1333mhz
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB
I don't really remember what builds i was using before, just the latest build releases really. Before when them games would run fine i don't remember ticking specific options so i doubt the problem is in the Dolphin settings, perhaps i just need to overclock something. I tried overclocking my graphics card but my computer just seems to crash every time i boot a game while overclocked.
Right now i'm using the latest builds and have just been cycling through D3D9, D3D11 & OpenGL with different settings applied but nothing seems to run as good as it used to. Would be grateful if someone could help me out, been troubling me for some time now.
Thanks
PC Specs
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD5
Ram: 16GB DDR3 1333mhz
Graphics: GTX 680 2GB
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD5
Ram: 16GB DDR3 1333mhz
Graphics: GTX 680 2GB