(03-23-2012, 07:47 AM)Shonumi Wrote: Frame skipping shouldn't let games run at full-speed. All frame skipping does is tell the emulator not to draw a certain number of frames. Dolphin still knows what the frame should look like, it just doesn't display it. It won't change the emulated game speed. If you're not getting full-speed, frame skipping shouldn't change that.
Thanks for confirming that my GPU is to slow for high res LLE, GT555M is much slower than GT 550 Ti which is almost twice as fast according to http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php.
Dolphin uses a really uncommon way of frame skipping if it is just not drawing them. Almost all other emulators, since back from SNES and NES emulation days really skip calculating the frame thus making emulation and sound much faster. And they automatically and dynamically decide how many frames to be skipped if automatic frame skipping is enabled. Is this feature really impossible with LLE and Dolphin architecture?
And when playing on a real console with much action on the screen the game and audio speed will stay and the frame rate will drop. Not the final output framerate defined by PAL / NTSC / HDTV standard but the number of frames actually calculated by the GPU. It would be almost impossible to write a game if frame rate was always fixed and could never fall below that value. The Wii would be the very first system to behave this way if that was the case and it would make absolutely no sense.
Developers may not be aware, but the majority of dolphin users very likely uses GPUs slower than my 555M. They all have massive problems with LLE in high resolutions and should not be ignored.