Issues with Dolphin framerate/stutters, please help

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Quote:When I run literally any game in dolphin, I get both audio and video stutters and horrendous framerates. I don't understand how that's possible when I can run games like Assassin's Creed, Skyrim, and pretty much most steam games on max settings 60+ FPS. I even get better framerates in Black Desert Online and it's not even that well optimized

Don't compare PC game to emulator, they're not even in the same league!
PC game can run directly on your system. Wii/GC game is not created to run on your system.
What emulator does is to create a virtual system to run game on it . Basically , just like how you boot windows inside another windows (VMware) and then run game on it
Emulator like Dolphin need a powerful CPU, your CPU isn't fast enough for it
If you take a look around , you will see most users here have 3GHz+ CPU , some of them even have 4GHz+ CPU

Anyway, you should check out the performance guide. Without doing anything , game will run like crap even on a high end laptop
https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/faq/#my-laptop-new-gpu-not-performing-well-it-should
Basically, you must force maximum clock speed out of your CPU/GPU

Also , you're better off using Direct3d12 (DX12) than using OpenGL . OpenGL is painfully slow