(01-08-2014, 05:49 PM)Xipe Toltec Wrote: Well when i was playing Dolphin and i seen the 70 on that program that tell the temp, i felt my laptop and it wasnt even THAT hot, not like "OMG IM ON THE SUN!" hot. it was warm tho. normally warm. Like when i do my 3D modeling. Even then, when i do that it gets a bit hotter than 70 but not by much, but loads those meshes extremely fast and those graphics and textures for that 3D program r way better than SADX. I honestly think its a problem with a setting i havent tweaked yet.
The system that is being emulated (GC/Wii) requires way more CPU horsepower than GPU. CPU's and GPU's are good at different things, and in this case the CPU is doing WAY more work than you would be on normal applications on your PC or even intensive games. Starcraft 2 needs lots of CPU power, but it doesn't really compare to some of the games being emulated on dolphin (Last Story, SMG, and pretty much most games using LLE for DSP). Also, more than a 4 Core CPU is pretty unnecessary for Dolphin since it usually doesn't use more than 3 or 4 threads (higher core intel (comparing i5 to i7) CPU's may have slightly better IPC, so a slight performance boost may occur, but nothing much). Editing meshes requires mostly GPU power up until you fire up the render engine, which may use only CPU, or GPU (or maybe both) depending oin what your using.
However, seeing your hardware (specifically the CPU), Sonic Adventures DX should run juts fine. AMD Phenom II's are running the game in the 3.2 GHz range according to some the benches on the wiki. I don't think its throttling if its a Ivy Bridge Mobile CPU, ive seen those run stable over 80C (OCN). Make sure all your drivers, etc are up to date (thats always good to do anyways for your computer anyways), try a several different versions of dolphin such as 4.0-603 (its helped in a few cases for me, bugs pop up all the time), and maybe if you want to post some pics of your settings using the snipping tool.