Good enough specs for gamecube games?

[craftybutcher]

I don't want to run wii games, just gamecube ones. Trying to run Fire Emblem Path of Radiance first at the moment and I've tried following youtube videos and online forums changing so many settings but I don't really know what I'm doing. The cutscenes drop to about 20 fps, the gameplay itself was around 40 fps and the sound was awful. I'm using Dolphin 4.0.2. I don't mind it being imperfect just not to the point where it takes away the enjoyment if possible. I don't care about the cutscenes as much I just want to speed up the fps of the actual gameplay and fix the sound as much as I can.

Specs:

-Intel Pentium quad core N3530 2.58GHz

-Intel HD Graphics

-8 GB RAM DDR3

-Windows 8 x64

Any advice would be great!

Thanks

[Shonumi]

Your specs are pretty weak for Dolphin. It doesn't matter if you're looking to emulate GC games only, as WIi emulation in general isn't necessarily more demanding than GC emulation. It depends on what the game wants Dolphin to do, and how fast Dolphin can do that, some games (Wii or GC) will be easy to emulate, others not so much. It's decided on a game-by-game basis.

Anyway, the best thing you can do is to try the very latest development builds. 4.0.2 is slow and old, not to mention slow. Go here and grab the most recent build (i.e. closest to the top of the page): https://dolphin-emu.org/download/ The latest development revisions should much faster. You probably won't get 100% fullspeed in every scenario for Fire Emblem, but you should see a difference.

[craftybutcher]

The sound is completely perfect and I'm now getting 55-60fps in gameplay, cutscenes are even bearable at around 30fps and the sounds nearly perfect there too which is amazing! Exactly what I wanted thank you so much!!