Huge slowdown in SMS / Shading problems in MK:DD!

[oliverfrancisco]

So this are the issues.

Super Mario Sunshine:

Everything goes normal at the first part of the game (when Mario gets the F.L.U.D.D and all that). After rescuing Peach, a statue appears and the false Mario dissappears. After that, the game starts running with a huge slowdown (only 2 FPS and 5 VPS, I think).

Mario Kart: Double Dash!:

At the same moment when the race starts, the characters´ colors become dark with no reason. (That was in 3.5 stable, it doesn´t happens in older revisions).

Tell me if you will need screenshots.

[NaturalViolence]

These issues are most likely related to your IGP. Which is not officially supported.

[pauldacheez]

The first issue is due to both your CPU and GPU being near-worthless for Dolphin (duh), while the second has been reported by a few other folk, so it may be legit.

Also, someone shorten the thread title, I get errors trying to reply.

[oliverfrancisco]

You mean that SMS has some CPU/GPU intensive parts during gameplay?

[pauldacheez]

I've had the game drop frames once or twice on real hardware (meaning an actual GC/Wii), so I'd certainly say so. Runs at 15-20 fps on my MacBook Air under Linux, which is a good bit faster than your machine, but not by too much (1.7 GHz (2.6 GHz dual-core turbo) i5-2557M, Intel HD Graphics 3000).

[oliverfrancisco]

Well, when in normal state it runs 16-26 FPS @ 800x600 (50%/66% speed). Cutscenes run at full speed; until I reach the point I´ve mentioned at the top of the thread.

Edit: I´ll let an Intel comparison article so we can have more info here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units

[pauldacheez]

Actually, I honestly don't even remember the exact average framerate it ran at (my Linux install is a bit broken right now, so I can't check), nor do I remember which build (don't even know if it was before or after the GLSL-master merge).

I dunno why you're getting such a massive slowdown at that exact point, but I can certainly say that you're gonna want much better hardware to run games on.

[oliverfrancisco]

Ok, lets say that I will buy a new video card right now, a GeForce 9900 GT. Is that card able to run SMS with no drops (or less drops)?
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Apart from that, I found other issue (both in 3.0-557 and 3.5-stable): slowdown in Mario Party 5 (same as in SMS), but this time because of consecutive shader compiling failures.

I can run it fine with Dolphin 2.0, with no slowdowns or failures at all.

[NaturalViolence]

oliverfrancisco Wrote:Ok, lets say that I will buy a new video card right now, a GeForce 9900 GT. Is that card able to run SMS with no drops (or less drops)?

1. There is no such video card. Perhaps you meant a 9800 GT.
2. If there were such a video card is would be horribly outdated since the geforce 9 series is from 2008. You would be much better off buying a more recent card unless you can get it for free or almost free.
3. Your cpu is too slow and therefore you would still experience slowdowns.

oliverfrancisco Wrote:but this time because of consecutive shader compiling failures.

What do you mean by that?

[oliverfrancisco]

I meant that I´m having the same slowdown I have in SMS, with the difference that in MP5 the slowdown is provocated by the pixel shader failures. And that those failures doesn´t happen in 2.0.