Hello All,
I'm not sure where to post this, but this seemed like a good place. I'm using the latest release candidate - version 5 as of this writing - on a Mac Mini (2.5G core i5 - Intel HD 4000 with 1G vram). Stock settings in all panels except for a few changes for the controller mapping.
I open Mario Party 9, and it works without issue, but the "board" view sections are about half framerate, including the title sequence and menus. The minigames work at full framerate and perfect sound - likely because there's less going on. So, this is all expected with my hardware.
While the game was running (on title sequence), I clicked the toolbar in Dolphin to open the graphics panel - to see if there was something I could do to speed things up. As soon as the panel opened, the framerate jumped to 100%, and the game ran perfectly, and stayed there until I closed the emulation and restarted it. This only seems to work with the graphics panel. Note, I don't change anything - it happens as soon as the panel opens, and as I said everything is stock settings.
This is 100% reproducable every time. I don't have any other games to try, but it's working here. Any ideas? Does something initialize in the background when the panel is opened? I mean, I'll take it, but I'm very curious as to why this is happening. I don't remember this happening in version 4, only when I jumped to the release candidates.
Thanks for any input you can provide!
I'm not sure where to post this, but this seemed like a good place. I'm using the latest release candidate - version 5 as of this writing - on a Mac Mini (2.5G core i5 - Intel HD 4000 with 1G vram). Stock settings in all panels except for a few changes for the controller mapping.
I open Mario Party 9, and it works without issue, but the "board" view sections are about half framerate, including the title sequence and menus. The minigames work at full framerate and perfect sound - likely because there's less going on. So, this is all expected with my hardware.
While the game was running (on title sequence), I clicked the toolbar in Dolphin to open the graphics panel - to see if there was something I could do to speed things up. As soon as the panel opened, the framerate jumped to 100%, and the game ran perfectly, and stayed there until I closed the emulation and restarted it. This only seems to work with the graphics panel. Note, I don't change anything - it happens as soon as the panel opens, and as I said everything is stock settings.
This is 100% reproducable every time. I don't have any other games to try, but it's working here. Any ideas? Does something initialize in the background when the panel is opened? I mean, I'll take it, but I'm very curious as to why this is happening. I don't remember this happening in version 4, only when I jumped to the release candidates.
Thanks for any input you can provide!