Insane Performance drop upon upgrading to newest dolphin?

10-01-2014, 02:28 PM #1

So i've been using dolphin 3.0 since july, and i only started playing it with brawl about a week ago. On average i got a playable enough framerate (major drop at the intro, 50-48 fps during heavy battles where there's lots of characters on the screen) so i was fine. Today i had to "upgrade" to 4.0.2 to use project m, and when i did, i couldnt even play the game anymore. On average i get about 30 fps. 45 if i'm REALLY lucky. So what's the big deal here? I tried downgrading all the graphics settings i could, i made sure nothing was changed from what i normally used with the older version, and still nothing.

Also, I just wanna play brawl and that's it. So i only need resolutions that are good for brawl.

**Anti-Ultimate** · 10-01-2014, 02:45 PM #2

Use the newest development version.

10-01-2014, 02:53 PM #3

(10-01-2014, 02:45 PM)Anti-Ultimate Wrote: Use the newest development version.

Didn't help at all. Got an even worse framerate and it was just as buggy.

**KHg8m3r** · 10-01-2014, 03:52 PM #4

Switch over to the D3D backend if you haven't already

Maxo · 10-01-2014, 05:08 PM #5

I just tried the most recent Dev builds and i can confirm that the framerate is WAY lower than intended even though the counter shows it playing at full speed, switched back to revision 4.0-3430 and the game works perfectly again, its not just Project M/Brawl either, i tested MKWii and had the same "framerate" problem

10-01-2014, 05:48 PM #6

Yeah eventually i solved the issue. For some reason dolphin kept switching my saved settings back to default (which, for some reason, was set at the worst possible settings).
Now the last issue i need to resolve is keeping 60fps a constant thing during brawls :L keeps dipping to 55 then back which causes some minor issues. otherwise the game is near perfect (in terms of gameplay)

(10-01-2014, 05:08 PM)Maxo Wrote: I just tried the most recent Dev builds and i can confirm that the framerate is WAY lower than intended even though the counter shows it playing at full speed, switched back to revision 4.0-3430 and the game works perfectly again, its not just Project M/Brawl either, i tested MKWii and had the same "framerate" problem

Yeah. I tested best possible settings, some stuff i never used, ect. Framerate was awful.

**JMC47** · 10-01-2014, 07:04 PM #7

Probably because vsync actually works now in Dolphin (on most computers) and it was being messed up by drivers overriding it.