Is it my rig, or settings, or..?

[Hours]

First of all, hello everyone! I heard about Dolphin the other day, and the project is fantastic.

I've been trying to get Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4 to run decently, and I've seen several posts saying that it runs flawlessly with all the settings maxed on machines comparable to what I'm currently using, so I was a bit confused as to the speed I'm getting. I've been working at it and searching for more hours than I'd like to admit at this point, so I have to break down and ask for some help.

To start, my specs are as follows:

Intel Pentium D CPU 2.80 GHz
2 GB ram
Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT
Windows Vista 32 bit

Updated graphics and sound card drivers during the process of trying to get things working. Service packs are up to date, and all the other Windows components listed as possible causes in the FAQ's section are present and accounted for.

Current settings below:



(Not playing in full screen so ignore the 1440x900 resolution.
Shrinking the window down to extremely small sizes does nothing to help the speed!)



And one more pic. The game is supposed to be 30 FPS, and it's running at 22-26 constantly, but a speed of only 40% or so.. not sure where that makes sense.



My guess would be hardware not being up to par, but second (educated) opinions are nice. Probably related if it's a hardware issue, the audio does not stop skipping. Even in the intro cut scene, where the game actually reaches 60 fps. If the audio is set to DSound is makes an awful cracking noise when it skips, as well. But on OpenAL it just skips.. or jumps.. not sure what the term for it is.

Anyway, thanks in advance for looking at all this, and if there's something I can change to maybe get this going better, please let me know. Thanks!

[sNk]

try other games....

this game has a bug and only works with a patched revision.
here is one good for it:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=76NL0CHC (32 bit)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HLMG5DMY (64 bit)

[admin89]

Both rig and setting
Setting : http://www.dolphin-emu.org/configuration...ation.html
CPU atleast a real Intel dualcore 2.4Ghz or better (not a pentium D)

[Cloudfire]

Ok try this:

- Download a never revision. r6139 gave me a very good FPS boost. Get it HERE
- Framlimit - Off
- Less resolution in fullscreen, 1024x768 or 800x600
- EFB scale 1x
- If your game dont crash you dont need to use "safe texture cache". Uncheck that one.
- Go to "DSP" and uncheck "Enable Audio throttle"

Try that and report back

[Hours]

Hey thanks for the replies guys. I went through and tried the recommendations you guys gave.

The patched version gave no sound, and ultimately didn't work. Same issues, plus the controls were wonky.

Set the settings as shown in the post from admin89, with the revision Cloudfire posted, and same issues.

I'm going to have to chalk it up to the machine, and try again when I have a better computer.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I appreciate it!