I'm running Dolphin 5.0 with the following specs:
Intel Core i5 3.5 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
8 GB of RAM
2 TB HDD
Windows 8.1
At seemingly random times, the games I'm playing will slow down. Usually I get a clean 60 FPS, but when it slows down, it typical drops to 30-40 FPS. There may be some kind of pattern to it, as I've noticed it occurring when certain sound effects trigger (like a 1-up sound in Mario Galaxy 2) or when there's a lot of moving objects on screen, but it's not at all consistent. If I keep revisiting a part of a game that has slowdown, sometimes it will happen, and sometimes it won't. It seems to affect every game I play.
When the slowdown occurs, I can usually fix it by doing one of the following:
1. Pause the game or go to the Wii paused menu by pressing the home button, and waiting for the FPS to return to 60
2. Toggle frame skip for about one second
3. Save and load a save state
Please note that when I use frameskip to clear up the problem, the game will usually start running *faster* than 60 fps. And sometimes loading a save state triggers the issue.
My specs should be fast enough to run these games at full speed, particularly given people report playing all of the games I've seen this happen in at full speed with specs much worse than mine. Furthermore, the fact that doing something like toggling frameskip clears the problem up suggests that it's not that my system isn't fast enough.
Is there anything I can do to clear this up? 98% of the time Dolphin works flawlessly but these few incidents are quite annoying and take me out of the game.
Intel Core i5 3.5 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
8 GB of RAM
2 TB HDD
Windows 8.1
At seemingly random times, the games I'm playing will slow down. Usually I get a clean 60 FPS, but when it slows down, it typical drops to 30-40 FPS. There may be some kind of pattern to it, as I've noticed it occurring when certain sound effects trigger (like a 1-up sound in Mario Galaxy 2) or when there's a lot of moving objects on screen, but it's not at all consistent. If I keep revisiting a part of a game that has slowdown, sometimes it will happen, and sometimes it won't. It seems to affect every game I play.
When the slowdown occurs, I can usually fix it by doing one of the following:
1. Pause the game or go to the Wii paused menu by pressing the home button, and waiting for the FPS to return to 60
2. Toggle frame skip for about one second
3. Save and load a save state
Please note that when I use frameskip to clear up the problem, the game will usually start running *faster* than 60 fps. And sometimes loading a save state triggers the issue.
My specs should be fast enough to run these games at full speed, particularly given people report playing all of the games I've seen this happen in at full speed with specs much worse than mine. Furthermore, the fact that doing something like toggling frameskip clears the problem up suggests that it's not that my system isn't fast enough.
Is there anything I can do to clear this up? 98% of the time Dolphin works flawlessly but these few incidents are quite annoying and take me out of the game.