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MSI GX60 3AE-212FR
12-04-2013, 03:55 AM
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Hi there,


I'm new with Dolphin.
I wish I could play to my favorite Gamecube games like The Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, Majora's Mask (wait, I only played with Zelda games??) and Mario Kart Double Dash (no Cool ).

I bought a new PC one year ago with a configuration set up to run actual (actual from last year thus) PC games with high quality of details. I played to Skyrim, Borderlands and Hitman with high details without issues (medium for Hitman btw).

I heard from some specialized forum this laptop has one default : its processor. It is actually bounding the GPU capacity...
Too bad, I read here the Dolphin emulator use essentially the processor :/


Here is the config (the laptop I bougth last year)
http://www.materiel.net/ordinateur-portable/msi-gx60-3ae-212fr-hitman-edition-89143.html


I just tried to launch "The Wind Waker" but its not running in a way I could enjoy the game (the FPS came low sometimes in spite of my low details settings) !



Can you help me a bit to understand that ? I have to confess, I did not understand everythings in the available settings... There are so many choices depending on specific configuration ! I need some start points to understand that.
Is my laptop really so bad at running GC games ??
Do I have to overclock my laptop ? I never did that before, is it safe even for a laptop ?


Thanks a lot for your help, and thanks for ceating such a great tool Blush
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12-04-2013, 03:58 AM
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Seems you're getting either CPU bottlenecked or Dolphin is using the integrated graphics. Assign Dolphin to high-performance in Catayst Control Center.

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12-04-2013, 04:56 AM
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The Ax series APU chips don't have great per-core speeds compared to Intel i5/i7 3rd or 4th gen CPUs.
If what Anti-Ultimate suggested doesn't work, you're getting a CPU bottleneck.
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12-04-2013, 08:17 AM (This post was last modified: 12-04-2013, 08:52 AM by mouch.)
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Well. It seems that Dolphin actually uses the integrated graphics...
[Image: mini_230633Capture.png]

By the way, I tried to install GPU Z to check it but I can't. I am stucked on that display
[Image: mini_451093Capture.png]

And, I also tried to install Catalyst Control Center, but I can't see any option to configure my graphic card. I guess I downloaded the wrong CCC ?
[Image: mini_674404Capture.png]


NB: Note that I bought this laptop with Windows 8 installed and 2 weeks later, I removed it to install Win7 x64. I got some trouble with my drivers there...
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12-04-2013, 10:10 AM
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Under preferences, look for an advanced view option to get the full control center setup
Try just the .zip version of GPU-Z, not the installer version
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12-04-2013, 03:53 PM
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A10 5xxxM iGPU (integrated GPU) is pretty good for dolphin afaik , it's faster than Intel HD 4600 . He won't get more speed by switching GPU unless he uses high internal resolution such as 3xIR (higher than 1080p) or higher . However , A10 5xxxM CPU is low-end . It's slower than most modern dual core i3 even though it's quad core (Well , it's not a true quad core btw) and it's extreme bad at single threaded performance which Dolphin requires
Use CPUZ to check CPU clock speed when Dolphin running . If it run at stock speed instead of turbo core , try to force your battery settings at high performance . Still not work ? There is nothing you can do , AMD Trinity / Rickland mobile CPU are locked to the core
https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-laptop-performance-guide
Laptop: (Show Spoiler)
Clevo W230SS : 3200x1800 IPS | i7 4700MQ @ 3.6GHz (Intel XTU + Triple fan mod) | GTX 860M GDDR5 | 128GB Toshiba CFD SSD | 16GB DDR3L 1600MHz
Aspire 715 43G : 1080p 144Hz |  R5 5625U @ 4.3GHz | Nvidia RTX 3050 4GB | 500GB WD SSD  | 16GB DDR4 3200MHz 
Mini PC :: (Show Spoiler)
G3258 @ 4.6GHz | ELSA GTX 750 | Asrock Z87E ITX | 600W SFX 80+ Gold Silverstone + SG06-LITE | Corsair Vengeance 8GB 2000MHz | Scythe Kozuti + Ao Kaze | 45TB 2.5" Ex HDD (in total) , Zelda Gold Wiimote , LE Wii Classic Controller , Gold LE PS3 DualShock , BlackWidow Chroma ,
Now Playing : Xenoblade Definitive Edition on Yuzu - Switch Emu 

 
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12-04-2013, 08:23 PM
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I ran the executable in the zip folder downloaded from techpowerup. I thought it was an installer. However, it still doesn't work!
And I can't figure out any option to manage my graphic card settings in the CCC.

I got this with CPU Z
[Image: mini_626235Capture.png]

Note that in the graphic tab, only the integrated GPU is recognize (maybe its normal since we are investigating on the CPU?)


Thanks for your help!
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12-04-2013, 09:12 PM
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Your laptop did its best . You're using LLE backend which is very demanding on CPU side ! CPU bottleneck for sure , this has nothing to do with your GPU since Zelda WW is a light-weight game .
There is no way you can make the game run full speed with LLE backend unless you have a very powerful rig (i5 4670k + Z87 mobo ) or a Haswell gaming laptop (prefer : i7 4700MQ or better CPU)

If you want more speed then go back to your audio settings and choose HLE instead
Laptop: (Show Spoiler)
Clevo W230SS : 3200x1800 IPS | i7 4700MQ @ 3.6GHz (Intel XTU + Triple fan mod) | GTX 860M GDDR5 | 128GB Toshiba CFD SSD | 16GB DDR3L 1600MHz
Aspire 715 43G : 1080p 144Hz |  R5 5625U @ 4.3GHz | Nvidia RTX 3050 4GB | 500GB WD SSD  | 16GB DDR4 3200MHz 
Mini PC :: (Show Spoiler)
G3258 @ 4.6GHz | ELSA GTX 750 | Asrock Z87E ITX | 600W SFX 80+ Gold Silverstone + SG06-LITE | Corsair Vengeance 8GB 2000MHz | Scythe Kozuti + Ao Kaze | 45TB 2.5" Ex HDD (in total) , Zelda Gold Wiimote , LE Wii Classic Controller , Gold LE PS3 DualShock , BlackWidow Chroma ,
Now Playing : Xenoblade Definitive Edition on Yuzu - Switch Emu 

 
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12-04-2013, 10:42 PM (This post was last modified: 12-04-2013, 10:53 PM by mouch.)
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So, finally, I was able to run GPU Z (after waiting like 15 minutes on the previous screen).
[Image: mini_810911Capture.png]

But from here, I cant choose my AMD Radeon 7970M. The soft become very slow and not responds...
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12-05-2013, 02:02 AM
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Here it is! I finally decided to uninstall every AMD drivers and downloaded the last Catalyst version.
I now have a Catalyst Control Center.
[Image: mini_716465Capture.png]

From here I added High Performance to the Dolphin executable but still, the 7970M doesn't appear in the Dolphin Adaptater configuration Sad

Admin89, I heard what you said but still, for the moment, my graphic card is not working properly and I wish I could repair this before insulting my CPU :]
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