This is the only game where I am experiencing FPS drops, and I understand that this game originally runs at 60 fps, but I'm able to attain 60 FPS much of the time, but I'm experiencing annoying drops - about a five-ten times every minute.
Here are my PC specifications first.
Pentium G3258 overclocked to 4.4 Ghz
Radeon R9 280x
8 GB DDR3 ram
Windows 7 64 bit
Dolphin 4.0.2 ( I have tried the latest dev versions too, but they didn't do much with performance.)
Here is a little bit of bench-marking I've tried. My main goal is to run Metroid Prime 3 at a consistent frame-rate with no drops. No matter which settings I choose I notice these drops. Even if I run it at native resolution (480p), I still notice these drops. In fact I have the best framerates when I run the game at 1080p (auto - window size) for some reason, but even then I experience drops from 60 fps to 45 fps (or lower.) I found that OpenGL works best. While the framerate is a little bit less in open spaces than DX 11, with DX 11 everytime there is an explosion I get a huge drop in framerates, down to 15 fps and there is a lag in which the shaders don't load for a few seconds. However, in OpenGL I've noticed a blur on the top portion of my visor. It comes and goes. I've tried messing with a plethora of settings. I don't think dolphin has much support for quad-core processors, so I don't think mine being a dual-core matters much. In fact, I can play games like Mario Galaxy 2 at 60 fps at 1080p 4xSSAA with drops to 55 fps every once in a while. The CPU is the only bit of my hardware that I think can be bottle-necking the game, but all other games run great.
So anyway - to summarize, the game runs at 55 fps - 60 fps and it is great when it runs at those speeds, but every few seconds I'm experiencing stuttering and drops to 45 fps - 50 fps, then speeds up again to 55 fps - 60 fps, almost periodically and especially when I enter a new area. I also am experiencing a blur when I use OpenGl, but unfortunately OpenGL is the only back-end where the game runs well with the fewest stuttering and glitches. Changing resolution doesn't do anything, in fact it can make it worse. The only thing that seemed to help was turning off AA entirely, but it was minuscule.
Is there anyway I can improve performance? Any recommended revisions of Dolphin that run the game better than 4.0.2 stable? Thanks all.
Edit: One more thing. There is almost static noise in the sound that happens every once in a while. Kind of like with the old VHS tapes when there was a portion of the film messed up. I've tried changing the settings from HLE to LLE, but that made the sound stutter.
Here are my PC specifications first.
Pentium G3258 overclocked to 4.4 Ghz
Radeon R9 280x
8 GB DDR3 ram
Windows 7 64 bit
Dolphin 4.0.2 ( I have tried the latest dev versions too, but they didn't do much with performance.)
Here is a little bit of bench-marking I've tried. My main goal is to run Metroid Prime 3 at a consistent frame-rate with no drops. No matter which settings I choose I notice these drops. Even if I run it at native resolution (480p), I still notice these drops. In fact I have the best framerates when I run the game at 1080p (auto - window size) for some reason, but even then I experience drops from 60 fps to 45 fps (or lower.) I found that OpenGL works best. While the framerate is a little bit less in open spaces than DX 11, with DX 11 everytime there is an explosion I get a huge drop in framerates, down to 15 fps and there is a lag in which the shaders don't load for a few seconds. However, in OpenGL I've noticed a blur on the top portion of my visor. It comes and goes. I've tried messing with a plethora of settings. I don't think dolphin has much support for quad-core processors, so I don't think mine being a dual-core matters much. In fact, I can play games like Mario Galaxy 2 at 60 fps at 1080p 4xSSAA with drops to 55 fps every once in a while. The CPU is the only bit of my hardware that I think can be bottle-necking the game, but all other games run great.
So anyway - to summarize, the game runs at 55 fps - 60 fps and it is great when it runs at those speeds, but every few seconds I'm experiencing stuttering and drops to 45 fps - 50 fps, then speeds up again to 55 fps - 60 fps, almost periodically and especially when I enter a new area. I also am experiencing a blur when I use OpenGl, but unfortunately OpenGL is the only back-end where the game runs well with the fewest stuttering and glitches. Changing resolution doesn't do anything, in fact it can make it worse. The only thing that seemed to help was turning off AA entirely, but it was minuscule.
Is there anyway I can improve performance? Any recommended revisions of Dolphin that run the game better than 4.0.2 stable? Thanks all.
Edit: One more thing. There is almost static noise in the sound that happens every once in a while. Kind of like with the old VHS tapes when there was a portion of the film messed up. I've tried changing the settings from HLE to LLE, but that made the sound stutter.