First of all - A quick thank you to the makers of Dolphin for creating a Wii/Gamecube emulator. I can't even begin to understand how it works, but it does, and I'm incredibly grateful for it.
I do however have a pretty major issue with using the emulator - Even with everything set as low as it goes in the Dolphin options, games such as Mario Party 9, New Super Mario bros and Mario Kart simply refuse to run higher than 40 FPS (dipping into the low 30-20's at times). It makes for a pretty miserable experience when everything is in slow-motion, and I'd like to get to the bottom of it.
The specifics on the PC are, according to what I can find on the forums, adequate:
The CPU is a Intel i5 750 (at stock 2.67 GHz), the GPU is a ATI 5850 and the RAM is from Corsair, with a grand total of 4GB. From what I can find on the wiki, it should be enough for the games mentioned above, but for some reason, it isn't.
Attempting to change the native resolution upwards does not result in a drastic framedrop, making me believe this is purely a CPU issue - But the CPU should be able to, with all the Dolphin settings I can find on the Wiki/performance page set to low, manage 60 FPS.
Am I missing something obvious?
I do however have a pretty major issue with using the emulator - Even with everything set as low as it goes in the Dolphin options, games such as Mario Party 9, New Super Mario bros and Mario Kart simply refuse to run higher than 40 FPS (dipping into the low 30-20's at times). It makes for a pretty miserable experience when everything is in slow-motion, and I'd like to get to the bottom of it.
The specifics on the PC are, according to what I can find on the forums, adequate:
The CPU is a Intel i5 750 (at stock 2.67 GHz), the GPU is a ATI 5850 and the RAM is from Corsair, with a grand total of 4GB. From what I can find on the wiki, it should be enough for the games mentioned above, but for some reason, it isn't.
Attempting to change the native resolution upwards does not result in a drastic framedrop, making me believe this is purely a CPU issue - But the CPU should be able to, with all the Dolphin settings I can find on the Wiki/performance page set to low, manage 60 FPS.
Am I missing something obvious?