If I run dolphin emulator with about 7x internal and highest aa options, in either back end (with full-screen on), it never utilizes 99 percent of my gpu like other heavy applications do. none of my cpu cores are maxed out either (I am monitoring these things with msi afterburner). The game will lag, and gpu usage fluctuates from 65 to about 88 percent. if I hit the windows key on my keyboard to exit full screen, gpu usage jumps to the expected usage of 99 percent, causing much better performance. I have enabled "prefer max performance" in the nvidia control panel, but it didn't do anything. Running dolphin in borderless full screen fixes this, but then it isnt as smooth as I would like it to be. Am I the only one who has this problem? Does anyone know what is going on? Oh btw I am using the latest nvidia drivers 353.30.
I5 4690k @ 4.5ghz | GTX 970 Windforce OC @ 1500Mhz core, 7800Mhz Vram | MSI Z97S Krait Mobo | 8GB ddr3 @1600mhz