Metroid Prime 1 GC tips to reduce stuttering

[cyrax33]

Well understood. Unfortunately, like I said before as well, your settings are based on YOUR hardware. What your same exact settings may not work for everyone, you are just basing your findings and evidences on a 5930K. If I were to mimic your same exact settings on my hardware I would not get the same exact effect as you, especially with dual core disabled since having this disabled has been known to cause hangs, etc. in some games. Unless this has gotten remedied in recent dev. builds that I don't know about. I don't know if that happens in MP1, but I do know, however that if I were to disable this option I would get significant loss here, which far more exceeds stutters. So maybe the key factor here is if you were to have a powerful CPU, then these recommendations may or may not work for you.

[JLink100]

(07-31-2015, 02:00 AM)DolphinPC Wrote:

(07-31-2015, 01:46 AM)cyrax33 Wrote: I figured the same will happen with MP2. Yes you are right, the game is generating a new room right before a blast door is opened. This also happens in real console, some doors stays shut for about 1-2 sec after blasting it. Yes the stuttering is reduced when playing it several times around, or leaving Dolphin running about an hour so. With your settings, I assume the same would occur on my end with my settings under 4.0.2 in MP2 with the stuttering's. But that disabling dual core suggestion gives me the chills.

Unforunately, like I said, I tried many settings combinations, and To reduce the stuttering you need to use the EXACT same settings I used (Change even one little setting and it won't work). with those settings, the generating will reduce much less stuttering then before, and instead of playing for hours, one hour will be more than enough, and entering new rooms will reduce only little stuttering for only one time, if at all. that's the big fifference in the sttings- You won't have stuttering every time a new area is being generated (that problem is far worse than generating new effect for the first time), and that makes the movement between areas much smoother and almost completely stutter free, which is the biggest improvement.

You can try Ishiikura's custom version of Dolphin (it is on the forums) and use Async shaders to reduce stuttering.

[DolphinPC]

(08-01-2015, 05:39 AM)JLink100 Wrote:

(07-31-2015, 02:00 AM)DolphinPC Wrote:

(07-31-2015, 01:46 AM)cyrax33 Wrote: I figured the same will happen with MP2. Yes you are right, the game is generating a new room right before a blast door is opened. This also happens in real console, some doors stays shut for about 1-2 sec after blasting it. Yes the stuttering is reduced when playing it several times around, or leaving Dolphin running about an hour so. With your settings, I assume the same would occur on my end with my settings under 4.0.2 in MP2 with the stuttering's. But that disabling dual core suggestion gives me the chills.

Unforunately, like I said, I tried many settings combinations, and To reduce the stuttering you need to use the EXACT same settings I used (Change even one little setting and it won't work). with those settings, the generating will reduce much less stuttering then before, and instead of playing for hours, one hour will be more than enough, and entering new rooms will reduce only little stuttering for only one time, if at all. that's the big fifference in the sttings- You won't have stuttering every time a new area is being generated (that problem is far worse than generating new effect for the first time), and that makes the movement between areas much smoother and almost completely stutter free, which is the biggest improvement.

You can try Ishiikura's custom version of Dolphin (it is on the forums) and use Async shaders to reduce stuttering.

I said that the settings i tried eliminated the stuttering almost completely and without any giltches or bugs after I played the first 30 hours of each game twice. Actually, I tried ishiiruka's version, and I even open a thread about it, and the async shaders, while eliminating the stuttrting, introduce many other issues that it's just doesn't worth it.

[DolphinPC]

I just Upgraded to windows 10 and I updated to the new Nvidia driver so I started all over again, this time in Ishiiruka 411 (I only used this version cause I wanted to use SSAO, I used the same settings as before and not any of ishiiruka's special settings so there were no glitches). This time I used Direct3D 11 instead of OpenGL, and I can Confirm that with Direct3D 11, at least Metroid Prime 1 ran better (because unforunately, in single core mode the refraction slowdown still persists). This Time, after I played with single core mode for the first 40 minutes, I again started the games from the begining, but this time on dual core mode with idle skipping (and SyncGPU for Metroid Prime 2), and no additional stuttering was introduced, so With Direct3D 11 in the lastest versions (or Ishiiruka 411), the stuttering can be reduced even with dual core mode when using Direct3D (Just like OpenGL, the emulation is perfect and there are no bugs or isuues). After I will get the Dolphin Bar, I will test Metroid Prime Trilogy as well.
Note: I tried NTSC versions only.