Frame rate drop

11-08-2013, 08:20 AM #1

trying to play Harvest Moon animal parade on wii. If I am in a house (small region) frame rate is fine but once I zone into a big area the frame rate drops severely. I am wondering if my computer can run this game at anything higher than 15-20 fps. I know my computer is out dated but was curious if it could handle this game or not. Thanks.

rokclimb15 · 11-08-2013, 08:27 AM #2

Unfortunately your CPU is going to be too weak to emulate this game properly.

**DJBarry004** · 11-08-2013, 08:51 AM #3

"Too weak" sounds short for the CPU he has... Confused

~~JetBiker~~ · 11-10-2013, 02:19 AM #4

15-20 fps is surely unplayable :S

**DJBarry004** · 11-10-2013, 02:22 AM #5

It actually depends on game speed format. 20 out of 60 is a hell, being not the same in 20 out of 30 (some games have a max FPS of 30).

25 out of 50 is VERY unplayable if the game requires 50 FPS all the time (unless the game needs 25 FPS max.)

**KHg8m3r** · 11-10-2013, 03:43 AM #6

That CPU is definitely limiting your options for speed

11-10-2013, 02:02 PM #7

Hello, I just wanted to quite revive this topic since I'm having the same problem... but the thing is that I didn't back then; you see, I have had this computer since a bit more than a year: Pavilion dv4-5164la, Intel Core i5-3210M 2.50GHz, 6GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I ran TLoZ: Wind Waker, NSMB.Wii and SSB.Brawl. In march of this year I had an accident with the hard disk so I had to replace it, and so far everything goes fine, but I noticed the emulation is not the same as it used to be, since I have the same problem that when you approach to big places the frame rate drops & thus it gets much more slow, something that never happened when I first got this computer. So basically I don't know if this problem lies on the emulator (Dolphin 4.0.1) or on my computer itself.
An extra thing, but the reason I post this is because I have tried different configurations for the emulator to get it faster but even so the problem is still there.

**admin89** · 11-10-2013, 06:29 PM #8

Short Answer : Latest Dolphin is more demanding than older versions (Dolphin 3.5 , Dolphin 3.0 for example)

11-11-2013, 05:41 AM #9

(11-10-2013, 06:29 PM)admin89 Wrote: Short Answer : Latest Dolphin is more demanding than older versions (Dolphin 3.5 , Dolphin 3.0 for example)

I would give you thumbs up, but this isn't youtube or facebook xD
But anyways thank you a lot! It did actually work and I tried with both older versions, 3.0 & 3.5, & they both run faster around 80% at big areas, which is reasonably great, unlike the <60% I had with the newer versions
EDIT: Now the only problem I would have is with the save file; apparently I have no problem into playing the same saved file between the version 4.0.0 & 4.0.1, but when I try with 3.5 it just loads a whole new file since it seems it's not compatible. It's for TLoZ: Wind Waker (GC).