Frame Drops - Makes the games freeze every 20 seconds or so

[Fr0zenIc3]

Hello, I just installed Dolphin 5.0 the other day. However, when I try to play a game on it, I get frame skips/dips. I pretty consistently get 60FPS except for the dipping which happens either during gameplay or watching a cutscene, and it can dip into the 20's sometimes. I wouldn't have as big a problem if the dips weren't so bad, but because they are it's causing the game to freeze for a second, which can be pretty frustrating during fighting or combat games. I will go ahead and post my Dolphin settings here (anything not included is OFF);

Backend - OpenGL
Fullscreen Res - 1920x1080
Aspect Ratio - Auto
V-Sync - ON
Hide Mouse Cursor - ON

Internal Res - 3x Native for 1080p
AA - 4x MSAA
Anti-Filtering - 4x
Post Processing Effect - OFF
Scaled EFB Copy - ON
Per Pixel Lighting - ON
Widescreen Hack  - ON

Ignore Format Changes - ON
Store EFB Copies to Texture Only - ON
Accuracy - Fast
XFB - DISABLED
Fast Depth Calculation - ON
Disable Bounding Box - ON

Crop - ON
Enable Progressive Scan - ON
Borderless Fullscreen - ON


Enable Idle Skipping - ON
Speed Limit  - 100% (Normal)
CPU Emulator Engine - JIT Recompiler

This happens during Star Fox Adventures, Smash Bros. Melee, Evolution Skateboarding, and very occasionally but definitely the least in Goldeneye Rogue Agent.

[DJBarry004]

You should try latest dev build and see if it still happens.

Also, it´s always better to specify what games are you playing.

[Fr0zenIc3]

(06-22-2018, 06:19 AM)DJBarry004 Wrote: You should try latest dev build and see if it still happens.

Also, it´s always better to specify what games are you playing.

I've updated my post and listed the games I have so far tried and had issues on. How do I go about updating the program properly? I downloaded the 7zip file from the link the emulator has for updating the build, but where do I go from here? Do I just unpack it into the same folder as the original exe?

[DJBarry004]

You have to extract it in a new folder.