Hardware Should Work Better

[EvanN]

Hello Everyone,

I have a Malibal gaming laptop with an I7 clocked at a base of 2.4 GHZ and a NVIDIA GTX 580m.

It runs games like Mortal Kombat , Need For Speed, Portal 2 (all for pc) on high with no slowdowns.

But yet I try to play super smash bros brawl with no visual enhancements and I get slowdowns intermittently though the game.

Can anyone help ?thanks in advance.

[kinkinkijkin]

Which i7?

[EvanN]

(06-18-2014, 04:23 AM)kinkinkijkin Wrote: Which i7?

I7-2720QM

[yl-smash]

You can try disable dedicated card in Dolphin->graphics->graphics adapter and use Intel HD 3000 graphics. Most multimedia laptops share cpu heatsink with gpu and that can cause overheat/throttle which will slow down game.

[EvanN]

(06-18-2014, 04:41 AM)yl-smash Wrote: You can try disable dedicated card in Dolphin->graphics->graphics adapter and use Intel HD 3000 graphics. Most multimedia laptops share cpu heatsink with gpu and that can cause overheat/throttle which will slow down game.

Would the Intel Graphics be able to handle it ? I don't experience this throttle on non dolphin games.

[tecfreak]

Try disabling HyperThreading in your bios settings.

[EvanN]

(06-18-2014, 05:33 AM)tecfreak Wrote: Try disabling HyperThreading in your bios settings.

Alright, will do. What will that fix?

[kinkinkijkin]

That will turn off HyperThreading.

HyperThreading sacrifices some performance per-core to give you double the logical cores, so turning it off will allow that sacrificed performance to be brought back from the dead.

[linker357]

Also, just to point out that you can't compare emulation with regular pc games. This is because what emulation does is it tries to be as similar as possible to a console, which is completely dedicated for games and uses its own language to play these games. Because of this, this language has to be transferred and read into something that a regular pc CPU can read and thus puts a lot more stress on it, unlike pc specific games where CPU doesn't really matter and mostly run with your GPU's specs.

TL;DR: pc emulation is much more stressful on hatdware than regular pc gaming

[EvanN]

So I've checked and the CPU has a separate heatsink than the GPU. Also my laptop doesnt have an option to disable hypertheading. Any other options?