Performance issues updating Dolphin

[shadyaw]

Hi guys, i'm new of this forum, i'm from Italy and sorry for my english.

I'll try to explain the best that i can.

Here my PC spec:

CPU: I3 8100
GPU: NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 1030 2GB
RAM: 4GB DDR 4 2666
SSD STORAGE
O.S. W10 x64 PRO

Dolphin release in use: 5.0.6946
Running games with native resolution and 2xSSAA as unique Enhancement and everything have always run fine.

I'm using this release since a long time and i always found a solution for the problems occurred. The point is that i decided to update Dolphin to the 5.0.10472 release, manually copied the settings from my previous release and launched some games, almost 20.... the result is that no one is working better but worse. Lag and scattering where before there was not (1080 Avalanche - Super Smash Bros - F-Zero and others) and some crash with games that were running perfectly (Solu Calibur II crashes with a GFX FIFO error).

I thought that updating my performance could a little increase, why they collapsed? Any suggestion or reason why?

Thank you for your support and amazing job! :-)

[DJBarry004]

The emulator´s coding is changing constantly, either to improve something, work around something or to remove it.

Since Dolphin changes so frequently you shouldn´t really be copying over your old settings. You just jumped over a gap of more than 4000+ commits.

What you should do instead is just modify the settings again to your needs after you update (but, since your PC is enough, I can´t think of a reason you would want to do that).

Note that, unless you´re using portable mode, you shouldn´t really need to move anything. Everything is supposed to be saved in the Global User Directory.

[shadyaw]

Thank you so much for your fast answer.

I understeand what you say and i'll follow it.

Just last question about portable versions. I suppose that the portable version is that one having all the folders in the main .exe folder as my 5.0.6946 relase. The last one i downloaded (5.0.10472) placed some folder in my document one after the first start, how can i have a portable version of the last release? That's was my last question, i promise.

Thank you so much.

[mstreurman]

Thank you so much for your fast answer.

I understeand what you say and i'll follow it.

Just last question about portable versions. I suppose that the portable version is that one having all the folders in the main .exe folder as my 5.0.6946 relase. The last one i downloaded (5.0.10472) placed some folder in my document one after the first start, how can i have a portable version of the last release? That's was my last question, i promise.

Thank you so much.

Yes, it creates all the folders in the Dolphin folder instead of in my documents. To create a portable version of Dolphin the only thing you need to do is create an empty .txt file with the name portable.txt and save it into the same folder as where Dolphin.exe resides.

[DJBarry004]

[color=#000000]Just last question about portable versions. I suppose that the portable version is that one having all the folders in the main .exe folder as my 5.0.6946 relase. [/color]

Yes. That happens when you make a "portable.txt" where Dolphin is.

[color=#000000]The last one i downloaded (5.0.10472) placed some folder in my document one after the first start, how can i have a portable version of the last release? That's was my last question, i promise.[/color]

[color=#000000] Doing the same. Making a blank "portable.txt" where the executable is.[/color]


[color=#000000]I still don´t get the point of why you would want that though. The last thing I would want is to reconfigure everything from step one every time I get a new build...[/color]

[mstreurman]

Yes. That happens when you make a "portable.txt" where Dolphin is.


[color=#000000] Doing the same. Making a blank "portable.txt" where the executable is.[/color]


[color=#000000]I still don´t get the point of why you would want that though. The last thing I would want is to reconfigure everything from step one every time I get a new build...[/color]

That is why you can auto-update... and it will keep updating in the same folder so you don't have recreate the same settings every time... if you don't want to use the auto updater: you DO know that you can just overwrite the existing dolphin in the current folder, which will still keep all your settings if you make it portable.

[shadyaw]

Thak you guys, you have been very helpful. All i wanted was to get the new features and improvements, not to reconfigure everything everytime but, as you explained me so well in the first answer, that's what i have to do to get good performances again. Now i know how to move. Thank's for the trick about the portable version. :-)