(05-25-2017, 07:32 PM)The Whump Wrote: Hi there,
I had a pretty similar issue. With a bit of research and troubleshooting, I figured out the source of some of the problems. For one thing, sierra continuously runs a lot of unnecessary processes that slow down the CPU. I have added a link below that talks about them. Also, when you are in finder, select "Go", then "Utilities" then "Activity Monitor" to see what processes are taking up too much CPU time and you can quit them by clicking on the process and selecting "quit" or "force quit". Cleaning you desktop and clearing you cache is also benefits performance. After enough tweaking, I was able to get sierra to run Dolphin about as well as it did on El Capitan/Yosemite. The links below have some suggestions/steps you can try out.
Useful links:
http://osxdaily.com/2016/10/04/macos-sierra-slow-fix/
http://www.cultofmac.com/449369/solve-three-big-macos-sierra-problems/
Also, the following settings may help you--they helped me solve this problem:
[color=#333333]Under Graphics Configuration:[/color]
[color=#333333]-Backend: Direct3D9[/color]
[color=#333333]resolution: 1280x720[/color]
[color=#333333]-Select Render to main window[/color]
[color=#333333]-To make the screen proportional to fullscreen while being faster than it click and drag the edge of the window to make it larger.[/color]
[color=#333333]-Scaled EFB copy under enhancements makes the game look a lot better for only a small performance hit.[/color]
[color=#333333]-Keep Text Cache under Hacks fastest unless a game keeps crashing for you then make it second fastest.[/color]
[color=#333333]-Disable Widescreen Hack[/color]
[color=#333333]-Enable Dualcore[/color]
[color=#333333]-Enable Idle Skipping[/color]
[color=#333333]-Framrate 65 limit by FPS (will usually actually be at 60 FPS)[/color]
[color=#333333]-(Interface) Theme:Boomy[/color]
[color=#333333]-JIT recompiler [/color]
[color=#333333]-enable DSP HLE emulation[/color]
[color=#333333]-enable DTK music[/color]
[color=#333333]-(Gamecube) Skip BIOS[/color]
[color=#333333](source: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-settings-for-speeding-up-the-Dolphin-Emulator)[/color]
[color=#333333]Good luck, I hope your issues get resolved![/color]
[color=#333333]-Backend: Direct3D9[/color]
[color=#333333]resolution: 1280x720[/color]
[color=#333333]-Select Render to main window[/color]
[color=#333333]-To make the screen proportional to fullscreen while being faster than it click and drag the edge of the window to make it larger.[/color]
[color=#333333]-Scaled EFB copy under enhancements makes the game look a lot better for only a small performance hit.[/color]
[color=#333333]-Keep Text Cache under Hacks fastest unless a game keeps crashing for you then make it second fastest.[/color]
[color=#333333]-Disable Widescreen Hack[/color]
[color=#333333]-Enable Dualcore[/color]
[color=#333333]-Enable Idle Skipping[/color]
[color=#333333]-Framrate 65 limit by FPS (will usually actually be at 60 FPS)[/color]
[color=#333333]-(Interface) Theme:Boomy[/color]
[color=#333333]-JIT recompiler [/color]
[color=#333333]-enable DSP HLE emulation[/color]
[color=#333333]-enable DTK music[/color]
[color=#333333]-(Gamecube) Skip BIOS[/color]
[color=#333333]lol what? is that a thing now?[/color]
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