Low FPS After Disk Format

[Techie Android]

I've been an IT for 5+ years so I may have some experience under my belt when it comes to running dolphin on a older slow machine likes yours. I used to use a old laptop as my daily driver, it was a HP DV5-1251nr, it had a 2.9 Ghz Dual Core CPU, 4GB RAM, I think it had a 5400 RPM HDD but I upgraded that to a SSD (just some advice, I stay away from any HDDs with RPMs below 7200, they really are slower and tend to break faster), my laptop also had a 720p screen and a GeForce 9200M GS 512MB max allocated RAM size 2302 MB. Contrary to most folks you can run dolphin games at full speed with these specs. I would download the latest dev build of dolphin and only change settings like audio level and if you don't use sound all the time like me then set it to no output it saves fps, then make sure the other settings are at they're defaults by hovering the cursor over the boxes and reading the note and following direction to check or uncheck them accordingly. Also make sure you set the games directory since it might have been moved after the wipe. In Graphic window I would suggest you set it to Direct3D 11 make sure you've got the latest drivers for your GPU and have configured it separately then select it as the adapter full screen resolution should be the maximum resolution supported by your display. In enhancements make sure your just on native 640x528. Test your games now and see what you fps number is you may need to check that box if you didn't already if your looking for the fps in full screen mode. If that number is steady at 60 you can probably move the native quality up to 1.5x I would continue this process until the desired quality and speed has been achieved.