Dophin running slow unless mouse is moved

[Bochi]

Hi,

I am running dolphin (current master) on Linux and when playing a game, it runs quite slow unless I keep moving the mouse around. When doing so, the game runs just like I'd run it on the WII itself. I already played around with the controller settings but that does not seem to be related.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Cheers
Bochi

[ExtremeDude2]

hmm that is weird, we'll also need more detailed specs then in your profile XD

[Bochi]

Fair enough, profile updated

Thanks

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OK I wrote a small script that constantly emulates a moving mouse:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

while true; do

  X=$[ ( $RANDOM % 1600 ) ]
  Y=$[ ( $RANDOM % 900 ) ]

  xdotool mousemove  $X $Y

done

When the script is running while playing the game the game (which is New Super Mario Bros WII btw) works fine. It's a quite hacky workaround though and I'd rather get to the bottom of that issue

[kernel64]

Sounds like an IRQ issue. Really weird actually, specially nowadays when the OS deals with that automatically, but sadly I don't have experience on Linux. Do you have the latest drivers for your video card?

[Squall Leonhart]

grab process explorer and set it to display kernel cpu usage

[Shonumi]

(07-14-2012, 01:44 PM)Squall Leonhart Wrote: grab process explorer and set it to display kernel cpu usage

Isn't Process Explorer a Windows utility? The OP's running SUSE (Linux). To find out CPU time spent in kernel space, just run the "top" command and look at the % near "sy".

[Bochi]

Kernel usage isn't too high, plus I found a way around this: Disable the Framelimit makes the issue go away, for whatever reason. Now things are working fine, except for World 2 in SMB but I found another thread describing that issue. One of the texttures (I suspect the sand) causes the slowdown, in levels without sand things are working fine.