I need some help with the best settings to run a game.

[Cruciofix]

I want to run Kirby Air Ride, but currently there is a weird lag that happens when I play.

I just want to know the best settings/graphics/hacks/etc to use for my setup.

My specs are:

An Intel i7-4710HQ @ 2.6ghz

24 GB of DDR3

Nvidia GTX 970M

And I am running Windows 10.

Please help!

[leolam]

What kind of lag is it? Is it a small slowdown that disappears fairly quickly or something else? If it's the former, it is shader compilation stuttering. Dolphin is an emulator and not a game; it doesn't know what shaders to generate ahead of time, so it has to do it during gameplay. Compiling is slow and results in stuttering, and this cannot be avoided.

[mstreurman]

Unless you use async shader compiler from Ishiiruka's builds... but then you won't get support from the forums except in this thread: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-unofficial-ishiiruka-dolphin-custom-version

[leolam]

And then it sort of ruins the experience, since you'll see missing and/or broken effects before the shader is ready. The real solution is ubershaders, but that's still a WIP.

[Cruciofix]

Thank you so much for the prompt replies, but after a little bit I figured out one of the "power saving" features of the laptop were preventing the game from using all the resources available.

My mistake, thank you all again though. Running like a charm now!